Semester Outline
Courses are organized to revolve around the time periods of historical architecture. Courses are designed to work across age groups. This will allow students at different grades to be studying the same information. Families can then study together grasping concepts and creating projects within the same historical period. Each course is 32 weeks in length. The first semester will study ancient to revival design. The second semester will study industrial revolution to the present.
First Semester Outline
1. What is Architecture?
2. First Civilizations : ? - 4000 B.C.
3. Ancient Egypt : First Empires : 700 - 332 B.C.
4. Ancient Greece : 2500 - 180 B.C.
5. Ancient Rome : 650 - 27 B.C.
6. Imperial Rome : 27 B.C. - 395 A.D.
7. Early Christian and Byzantine : 330 - 1453
8. Romanesque- 1020 - 1200
9. Gothic - Light and Airy : 1163 - 1250
10. Gothic - The first skyscrapers : 1250 - 1600
11. Asia / Africa : 500 B.C. - 1900 A.D.
11. Early Renaissance : 1420 - 1524
12. Late Renaissance : 1524 - 1715
13. Baroque and Rococo : 1623 - 1715
14. Classicism : 1700 - 1840
15. Colonial and Republic Americas : 1610 - 1800
16. United States of America : 1757 - 1871
Second Semester Outline
17. Beginning of Industrial Revolution : 1840
18. Industrial Revolution : 1851 - 1889
19. Arts and Crafts : 1848 - 1908
20. Chicago / Skyscrapers : 1871 - Present
21. Art Nouveau: 1895 - 1911
22. De Stijl: 1917 - 1932
23. Bauhaus : 1919 - 1933
24. International Style : 1919 - 1952
25. Art Deco : 1920 - 1950
26. Scandinavian Design : 1929 - Present
27. Mid-Century Modernism : 1937 - 1960
28. Expressionist / Brutalism : 1943 - 1972
29. Post Modern : 1966 - Present
30. High Tech : 1971 - Present
31. Deconstructive : 1978 - Present
32. Sustainable :1998 - Present