Description

This course includes definitions of architecture, character, and style with a chronological overview of the different architectural styles. The study begins with the first traces of prehistoric buildings and settlements in the Ancient World and covers:rnEgypt: The Archaic period, the Old Kingdom, the Middle and New Kingdoms until the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. rnMesopotamia: Summer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria and Persia.rn

Program

B.Sc. in Architectural Design

Objectives

• • Develop an understanding of the interrelation and influence between the organizations of the built environment and the social, political, cultural and technological aspects that shape the architectural character in the Ancient World period.rn• Provide the student with knowledge of environmental responsiveness via underlining materials and techniques used in varied types of architecture from prehistory up to the conquest of Alexander the Great.rn