Academic Catalog

ARCH425 THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ART AND ARCH.

Course Code: 1200425
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 4.0
Department: Architecture
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. YILDIRIM YAVUZ
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

This is an audio-visual course which analyses the socio-economic, political and cultural background of important works of art and architecture and their interrelation with other aesthetic achievements during a given period, so as to induce in the student an analytic understanding of a particular artistic and aesthetic milieu as an indivisible entity. The course will be conducted through lectures aided by video films, slides, audio cassettes and discs.