Art History 227 - Colloquium: Is This Architecture?
Colq: Is This Architecture?
Spring
2026
01
4.00
Dana Leibsohn
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Smith College
ARH-227-01-202603
Hillyer 109
dleibsoh@smith.edu
Is this Architecture? To answer this question, this class considers both traditional forms of Architecture (capital A) and creations that stretch that very concept and definition. Among the issues discussed and debated: how people and communities create spaces to live; enshrine the sacred; build sites of pleasure; and re-work land, water, and civic space in the wake of imperial expansion wars, earthquakes, and floods. Working across cultures, with examples drawn from antiquity to the present, this class highlights global and local perspectives, attending to settings as diverse as 3rd century India, 16th century Peru, and 21st-century Maldives and Great Britain. Counts for ARU. Enrollment limited to 20.