Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

And some buildings they helped make famous, according to two architects and a curator. By Julia Halperin “Pounding earth or making mud bricks out of earth [as opposed to firing clay bricks] is one of ...

Designer and historian David Gissen discusses themes from his recent book re-examining architectural history through the lens of disability. By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In the late 1960s, Ben Bradlee, the storied executive editor of The Washington Post from 1965 until 1991, confronted making the paper more ...

Architectural History, Theory and Criticism encompasses the study of built environments across time, the conceptual frameworks that explain their significance, and the evaluative approaches that ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture. It was an ongoing discussion among ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

For those that love a performance, perhaps no building style is more theatrical than Baroque architecture. “The origins of the word ‘Baroque’ are not entirely clear, but it is generally associated ...