This class will examine the artistic and architectural monuments of Ancient Rome, including the rise of the Roman Republic, the age of Augustus and the Roman Empire, and the origins of Christianity within the late-antique period.  Students will learn about the social, cultural and artistic foundations of Roman culture, combining classroom sessions with visits to many of the city’s most important and impactful monuments (the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum, to name only a few).  This course will help students see the city around them in a new light, revealing the lasting

This course is a survey of High Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, focusing on the examples that are visible in the churches and museums of Rome. Key figures will include Raphael, Michelangelo, Vasari, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Peitro da Cortona and Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Key themes include the development of the illusionistic frescoed ceiling, the projection of religious and political messages in the age of the counterreformation, classicism and its opposites, and the stylistic revolution of the baroque.

This course will use the magnificent architecture of Rome and its environs to help students understand the broad historical trajectory of western culture.

Six credits - Pass/No Pass only.This course fits into the ongoing redevelopment context, and you will be designing a large (25,000 – 50,000 s.f.), multi-story, mixed-use public building for one of several real sites on less-active areas of the island, with particular attention paid to how the building would help realize specific planning goals as articulated in published Granville Island planning documents.  Part of the problem will include defining and programming the uses of the building.

Three credits - Pass/No Pass only.This course is designed to encourage the development of digital media techniques that directly support the architectural design process, and in particular, support design activities in the kinetic architecture design seminar.  The course will consist of two parts:Introduction to Solidworks modeling and analysis for design development. Solidworks is a powerful 3D mechanical design automation software package with integrated 3D modeling and analysis capabilities.

Four credits - Pass/No Pass only.This seminar is designed to take advantage of your residency in the unique urban environment of Greater Vancouver.  The seminar will be composed of three interrelated parts:A general study of the architecture and urban design of Vancouver, and a more in-depth study of the history and urban structure of Granville Island, with an emphasis on the on-going urban design and land use planning study.

Six quarter credits; pass/no pass only.The architectural design project will be a civic building immediately adjacent to the Basilica Palladiana in the center of Vicenza, challenging students to design a new structure in a strong historical context. The project will require the examination of precedents in the region, analysis of the spatial structure of the city and the formulation of a design proposal that shapes both the building and the surrounding public space. Evaluations will be in the form of desk critiques, studio pin-ups, midterm and final reviews.

The urban core of central and northern Italian cities will be the laboratory for this course, studying spatial characteristics of the town as a whole, and places of importance within. The focus of the course will be the study of the piazza. The course will consist of three components:Classes, readings and field outings with media assignments focused on excursion sitesIndividual media assignments, notebooks and essaysTeam projects in which students will investigate the piazza 

This is an intensive hands-on digital filmmaking course held in and around Dún Laoghaire, a beautiful coastal town just outside of Dublin and home to IADT, the National Film School of Ireland. Filmmaking in Ireland will give you the opportunity to directly experience how cinematographers and filmmakers practice the language of visual storytelling. Ireland is a country and a people with a rich and complex history. But it is also a potential cinematic canvas to be created out of graphic elements of light and shadow, past and present, moods and textures.

This courses explores cultural and historical expressions of Englishness from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.  Notions of Englishness are always embedded in specific contexts: there is no ahistorical core to English identity.  Yet some themes have been remarkably pervasive through the centuries, even while being reiterated in new circumstances: we will return again and again to questions of language, gender, and relations with non-English communities in the British Isles and beyond.