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...Readings will supplement lectures. None. No background in computing or computer programming is assumed, and computer programming is not a requirement of the subject...

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...self-awareness of our own approaches and metaphors for computation and design. The semester will be divided into modules. Each module will explore a particular...

...global capitalism, or mass politics? Is culture generated by elites, or by anonymous energies bubbling up from below? What is the relationship between...

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...Each student will also be required to write three short papers. Class participation is essential and will be factored into the final grade. Lectures...

...Students are given the fullest opportunity to engage in seminar discussions. Students shall receive constructive commentary on each assignment...

...political, and intellectual environments. It also uses films and discussions to elucidate the artistic/cultural varieties and historical developments...

...between the 10th and 12th century. Its most spectacular age, however, was the Mamluk period (1250-1517), which established it as the uncontested center...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts...

...represented, transmitted, and implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored. By showing that a dialectical relationship between architectural...

...drawing, ornament, structure, construction, material, inhabitation, gender, class, race, nationalism, etc. in architecture. In setting up these constraints...

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...the goal is to become aware of the apparatuses of discourse, and find your own voice within them. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session MIT students...

...by analyzing studies on pre- and early modern globalization and the relevance of world systems theory to the culture and time that we are studying...

...the environment, and cultural politics. The course then reaches back over the last fifty years to establish precedents for these current-day preoccupations...

...while the contemporary art world claims to be "transnational," "global," or "cosmopolitan." The aesthetic of modernism in EuroAmerica reflected the tumultuous...

...This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of "nation" and how contemporary discourses concerning globalism changes that dynamic...

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