Harvard Offers Free Online Architecture Course – Sign up now !
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that K. Michael Hays will offer a free online course starting on February 28. The course will be part of the Harvard EdX platform, which facilitates MOOC’s, or Massive Open Online Courses. Alongside Hays, Erika Naginski and Antoine Picon will help teach the course.
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Entitled “The Architectural Imagination”, the course will help you to “learn how to “read” architecture as a cultural expression as well as a technical achievement. Vivid analyses of exemplary buildings from a wide range of historical contexts, coupled with hands-on exercises in drawing and modeling, bring you close to the work of an actual architect or historian.”
The first part of the course introduces the idea of the architectural imagination as a faculty that mediates sensuous experience and conceptual understanding. In the second set of modules, the course addresses technology as a component of architecture’s realization and understanding. While the final set of modules confronts architecture’s complex relationship to its social and historical contexts and its audiences, achievements, and aspirations. You may sign up for the course for free through this link
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