World Architecture and Urbanism, Early Civilisations to Renaissance detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Bachelor of Architecture 2nd sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 2nd sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of world architecture and urbanism, early civilisations to renaissance is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PREHISTORY TO RIVER VALLEY CIVILISATIONS 6 Different ages of human history. Time line and geography of human civilisations. Elements and determinants of human settlements. Prehistoric habitats and art. River Valley civilisations of Nile, Indus, Tigris/Euphrates and Yellow river; their geographical context; their political, social, religious, cultural and economic systems; settlement patterns, dwellings and other buildings.
Unit II
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Unit III
JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM 9 Judaism and Christianity- Birth and geographic spread. Transformation of the Roman Empire. Early Christian worship and burial. Church planning-Basilican concept. Byzantine empire. Centralised plan concept in churches. Birth and spread of Islam in the first millennium. Outline of building types of Islam. Commonality in forms and ideas across Southern/ Eastern Europe and Western/ Central Asia.
Unit IV
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Unit V
RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE 10 Renaissance and Humanism in Europe, its causes and its various facets in society. Trade and exploration. Protestant Reformation. Cities and their transformation. Character and building types of Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque and Rococo. Renaissance in different nations. Works of Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Christopher Wren, Andrea Palladio, Inigo Jones.
Course Outcomes:
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Required Reading:
- Ching, F. D. K., Jarzombek, M. and Prakash, V, A Global History of Architecture, 2nd Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
- Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, CBS Publications (Indian Edition),1999.
- Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture – Setting and Rituals, 2nd Ed, Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Leland M Roth, Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning, Westview Press, 2013.
Reference Books:
- David Watkin, A History of Western Architecture, Laurence King Publishing, 2015.
- Pier Luigi Nervi, General Editor, History of World Architecture Series, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1972.
- S. Lloyd and H.W. Muller, History of World Architecture – Series, Faber and Faber, London,1986.
- Gosta, E. Samdstrom, Man the Builder, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1975.
- Vincent Scully, Architecture – The Natural and the Man Made, Harper Collins, 1991.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Bachelor of Architecture, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit B.Arch 2nd sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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