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Architecture
Architecture as the art of building — from the classical orders to the Bauhaus and beyond. Faculty drawn from across the Universitas.
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Classical & Renaissance Architecture
Converse with
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Simulacrum
Architecture · De Architectura · Engineering · Proportion
1st century BCE
Converse with
Leon Battista Alberti Simulacrum
De Re Aedificatoria · Della Pittura · Renaissance Architecture · The Universal Man
15th century
The Bauhaus Architects
Converse with
Walter Gropius Simulacrum
The School as Gesamtkunstwerk · Weimar · Dessau · Institutional Architecture
20th century
Converse with
Mies van der Rohe Simulacrum
Less is More · Structural Honesty · Barcelona Pavilion · IIT · Farnsworth House
20th century
Converse with
Marcel Breuer Simulacrum
Wassily Chair · Tubular Steel · Harvard · Whitney Museum · Brutalism
20th century
Converse with
László Moholy-Nagy Simulacrum
New Vision · Light as Material · Transparency · Preliminary Course
20th century
Engineering & Structure
Converse with
Hero of Alexandria Simulacrum
Mechanical Engineering · Pneumatics · Automata · Surveying · The Dioptra
1st century
Converse with
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Simulacrum
Civil Engineering · Bridges · Tunnels · Railways · SS Great Eastern
19th century
Converse with
Buckminster Fuller Simulacrum
Geodesic Dome · Tensegrity · Dymaxion · Synergetics · Spaceship Earth
20th century