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Section Information for Spring 2021
Architecture is the inescapable art form. It surrounds us all, every day of our lives, shaping and conditioning our experience of the world. In this course, we will examine how architecture has developed and interacted with culture, religion, and politics, an examination that will help you to “read” the architecture of the world in a critically informed way. We will look at how buildings stand up, analyzing basic structural systems like post and lintel, arch, and truss, and common materials like stone, concrete, and steel. Since buildings are among the chief artifacts that any society leaves behind, the story of architecture is, at its essence, a story of human civilization. This is a fully asynchronous course. This course satisfies the Mason Core Arts requirement.
ARTH 103 DL1 is a distance education section that meets asynchronously.
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Credits: 3
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