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Jun 01, 2025
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ARHI189B PO - Persian Architecture Unglazed: Between the Past and Present, Local and Global, Field and MuseumWhen Offered: Spring 2022
Instructor(s): K. Overton
Credit: 1
This seminar explores icons of Persian architecture through the lens of diachronic history. Each week is devoted to a single site and balancing its original moment of construction with its later histories and realities, or ‘afterlife’. We will consider how, when, and why a building entered the canon of Persian art history (or was excluded from it), how its appearance and function have evolved over time, and how its ground reality compares with its often veneered and fragmented treatment in the museum. While the course focuses mainly on sites within historical Iran, it also considers the recasting of Persian architecture in more recent centuries in such distant locales as Honolulu, Copenhagen, and Kuala Lumpur. In doing so, we balance the study of Persian architecture between the past and present, local and global, and a wide variety of stakeholders and interests. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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