ARC300.1 : The Mediterranean City: Architecture, Ritual & Power
Description:
Italy’s cities great and small share a tradition of urban architecture and public ritual with cultures across the Mediterranean and Europe. This course examines critically a series of ritual sites around the Mediterranean basin where architects, artists, and their patrons created, sustained or transformed traditions of spectacle in the service of political, religious, or economic power. Emphasis will be as much on cultural continuity as on innovation as we examine the architecture, choreography, and politics of pharaonic and Homeric funereal games, Minoan bull-dances, Greek and Roman agora, forum, theater, and amphitheater spectacles, Byzantine and Christian liturgical rites, pilgrimages, and mystery plays, Islamic mosques, Bazaars, and water-gardens, medieval marketplaces and processions, Renaissance opera, the Baroque garden, nineteenth-century arcades and exposition spaces, modern Olympic games, and contemporary shopping malls and vacation resorts. Includes an overnight trip to Venice/Vicenza/Padua and day trips to Pisa, Siena/San Gimignano and Fiesole (Spring 2010 course fee of $525 to be billed from Syracuse) and an optional trip to Sicily (with fee payable in Florence with credit card). Meets with FIA 313.
Available Locations:
Italy
Semester(s) Offered:
Offered: Spring, Fall
Credits:
3
Department:
Architecture
