Free architecture course with Harvard University
Not many professionals in the architecture sector can say that on their resume they have a architecture course from the Harvard University, but this time, that may change! From the Harvard Graduate School of Design, they have just launched a free online course with the title of Architecture of the Imagination (The Architecture of Imagination) through a platform of open courses taught by universities based on the famous MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses).
The free course of Architecture of the Imagination It includes 10 modules with the intention of learning to "read" architecture as a cultural expression as well as a technical achievement. Different examples of important buildings, their historical contexts and the work of their architects will be analyzed, in addition to formalizing different practical modeling and drawing exercises.
The objectives of the course are:
- Read, understand and analyze different forms of architectural representation.
- Historical and social contexts behind the great works of architecture.
- Learn the basic principles to produce your own most representative architectural drawings and models.
- Relevant content for academic study or a professional career as an architect.
The first part of the course is an introduction to architectural imagination, its challenges and how architecture has influenced throughout history.
Part One: Form and History
Module 1: Introduction to architectural imagination.
Module 2: Reading architecture: column and wall.
Module 3: Architectural history.
Module 4: The architect Aldo Rossi and his typology.
The second set of modules will address the perspective of innovation technology in architecture where it investigates the different experiences and aesthetics that it can provide us, and its most representative materials in construction throughout history (Glass, steel and reinforced concrete).
Part Two: The Technological Effect
Module 5: The Crystal Palace: Detail and Infrastructure.
Module 6: The dialectic of steel and glass.
Module 7: Home Technology: Le Corbusier Machines for Life.
The last modules are dedicated to the contextual relationship of architecture in relation to history and society, where architecture has social obligations and an aesthetic power that can produce changes in society, collective memories or even utopian ideals.
Part Three: Representation and Context
Module 8: Utopia drawing: visionary architecture of the 18th century.
Module 9: The Pompidou Center in the city of Paris.
Module 10: Presenting the unrepresentable.
The online course begins on February 28 of this year on the EDX platform with a duration of 10 weeks and 3 - 5 Hours per week. The MOOC is developed by; K. Michael Hays Professor of Theory of Architecture and Associate Dean, by Erika Naginski, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of the History of Architecture, and by Antoine Picon, Director of Research Technology at Harvard University and Professor of History of architecture and technology.
More information also from Harvard University from the Harvard School of Design HERE.
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