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History of Arts and Architecture (1): Ancient Civilizations

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with the knowledge about different architectural styles of various ancient civilizations and develop an understanding of architectural styles, forms and structure in relation to their environmental natural and human contexts, also the course provide short introductions about art development parallel to architecture evolution.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    The relation between the architectural concept and the philosophy of design in different ages. The effects of physical, cultural, natural and constructional possibilities on the different architectural elements, through a study of art and architecture for different ancient eras: Ancient Egyptian, West Asiatic and Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, the early Christian and byzantine periods
  • Arabic Description

    The relation between the architectural concept and the philosophy of design in different ages. The effects of physical, cultural, natural and constructional possibilities on the different architectural elements, through a study of art and architecture for different ancient eras: Ancient Egyptian, West Asiatic and Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, the early Christian and byzantine periods
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (40 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 20% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2.0, Tutorial Hours: 0.0, Lab Hours: 0.0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4.0
  • - Fraser, M. (Ed.), 2020. Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 21st ed., Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London. ISBN: 978-1-4725-8998-9.
  • - Harwood, B., 2021. Architecture and Interior Design: An Integrated History to the Present, Pearson. ISBN: 978-0-13-753879-9.