Saltbox to Skyscraper: American Architecture (ARTH 2267)

Fine Arts · Boston College

This course examines the history of buildings, landscapes, and urban growth in the United States, from early Native American and European contact to the present.Themes studied include typology, materials and technology, style and movements, the emergence of the architectural profession, and specific social contexts such as culture, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. Students will examine how the built environment is linked to climate, geography, and imaginations of the natural world, and influenced by politics, religion, economy, internationalism, and the definition of national and regional i

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