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The Architectural Imagination
4.8226 ratingsLearn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.
Overview
In this course we will read and write about works that explore symbolic encounters in the American landscape. Some of the assigned works look at uneasy encounters between ordinary individuals and animals—wolves, eagles, sandhill cranes—that Americans have invested with symbolic significance; others explore conflicts between the pragmatic American impulse to impose order on unruly nature and the equally American inclination to enshrine the unaltered landscape.
Skills you'll practise
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- The real MIT course: lecture notes, problem sets and exams, often with solutions.
- Free, with no sign-up or deadlines.
- Taught by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the strongest names in its field.
- Completely free.
- Self-paced: start any time.
Disadvantages
- No certificate, no grading and no forum: you need to be self-driven.
- Many courses are recordings of past semesters and some have notes only, no videos.
- No certificate.
Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.
Free to learn
- Free: All the materials are free to use, with no sign-up. MIT OpenCourseWare gives no certificate.
Taught by
- Dr. Cynthia Taft
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