History of Art & Architecture

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  • CAS AH 582: Historic Houses
    Studies the preservation of historic homes as museums, a phenomenom involving more than 26,000 houses throughout the U.S. since 1850. Considers Boston's excellent examples as works of architecture and design and as icons in debates about national and regional identities.
  • CAS AH 584: Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning
    Examines the buildings, development patterns, and open space planning of greater Boston, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Weekly visits to neighborhoods and buildings throughout the city are combined with independent research projects for each member of the seminar.
  • CAS AH 585: Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urbanism
    Topic for Spring 2014: Architecture in Europe, 1945-1989. Covering a period that ranges from the conclusion of the Second World War to the wave of social unrest at the end of the 1960s, this seminar examines how European architectural culture responded to transformations of the postwar years.
  • CAS AH 587: Green Design
    This seminar explores the historical context for issues of sustainability and green architecture from the eighteenth century to the present, charted through questions of landscape theory, public park making, suburbanization, adaptive re-use, and new materials and methods of construction.
  • CAS AH 589: Topics in Nineteenth-Century Art
    Topic for Spring 2014: Seminar: Impressionism through Symbolism. Major currents in nineteenth-century European art are examined in light of contemporary developments in politics, science, religion, literature, music, and the history of ideas.
  • CAS AH 591: Seminar in Photographic History
    Topic for Spring 2013: Documentary Photography. Changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to the present. Topics include urban photography, war imagery, topographical and survey landscapes, architectural records, social reform photography, New Deal imagery, and digital documents.

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