Nifty! This is Arch. History from Classical to modern, so I think "general" might be understating it.
Wow, that really is the full history of architecture. You'll probably start with burial mounds, then to Egypt, then Greece and Rome, briefly discuss Gothic churches, spend two full weeks on the Renaissance, then just kind of jump ahead to Le Corbusier and end not longer after him. That's just my guess, though.
The text is Architecture from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (Trachtenberg and Hyman). Have you ever encountered it?
I have not. The only history class I had that was that general was two semesters of the entry-level Art History lecture. Architecture was jammed in there in such a way that it bored the Arch students and pissed off the art students. So the only text that general had paintings through half of it.
Heh. If I had any kind of drawing and/or math talent whatsoever, I might have considered being an Arch major. But I don't, so I just go, "Ooooh, pretty Gothic building!" and take pictures. *g*
If you had only known that drawing and/or math talent is completely unnecessary. Seriously, the classes that Arch students consistently do worst in are math classes. And virtually all drawing is on computer now. It's kind of funny how far away from math and drawing it is. :)
Strangely enough, though, if I hadn't been an Arch major, I probably would have gone for English.
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Date: 2005-08-14 03:58 am (UTC)Wow, that really is the full history of architecture. You'll probably start with burial mounds, then to Egypt, then Greece and Rome, briefly discuss Gothic churches, spend two full weeks on the Renaissance, then just kind of jump ahead to Le Corbusier and end not longer after him. That's just my guess, though.
The text is Architecture from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (Trachtenberg and Hyman). Have you ever encountered it?
I have not. The only history class I had that was that general was two semesters of the entry-level Art History lecture. Architecture was jammed in there in such a way that it bored the Arch students and pissed off the art students. So the only text that general had paintings through half of it.
Heh. If I had any kind of drawing and/or math talent whatsoever, I might have considered being an Arch major. But I don't, so I just go, "Ooooh, pretty Gothic building!" and take pictures. *g*
If you had only known that drawing and/or math talent is completely unnecessary. Seriously, the classes that Arch students consistently do worst in are math classes. And virtually all drawing is on computer now. It's kind of funny how far away from math and drawing it is. :)
Strangely enough, though, if I hadn't been an Arch major, I probably would have gone for English.