The Architectural Imagination: Harvard’s popular free online course returns
Taught by professors Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon, and K. Michael Hays, with PhD student Lisa Haber-Thomson, Harvard University’s free online course, The Architectural Imagination, is back for 2018. Presented by the university’s Graduate School of Design, the class is open to everyone, with registration for the self-paced course now up and running.
The Architectural Imagination, Harvard University.
The edX course description gives an overview of the syllabus:
The first part of the course introduces the idea of the architectural imagination as a faculty that mediates sensuous experience and conceptual understanding. Two examples of the architectural imagination?perspective drawing and architectural typology?are explored through video presentations and hands-on exercises. You will be introduced to some of the challenges involved in writing architectural history, revealing that architecture does not always have a straightforward relationship to its own history. In the second set of modules, we address technology as a component of architecture?s realization and understanding. Architecture is embedded in contexts where technologies and materials of construction?glass and steel, reinforced concrete?are crucial agents of change. But a society?s technology does not determine its architectural forms. You will discover ways that innovative technology can enable and promote new aesthetic experiences, or disrupt age-old traditions. You will witness architecture?s ways of c...
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