History of World Architecture I. “Prehistory” to 1400:
A Posthumanist Feminist Reinvention
ARCH 61201/AES23202, Fall 2022
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
The City College of the City University of New York
Instructor: Prof. Ruo Jia
Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30-10:30 am, SSA-107
Lecture Recordings Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjQmC6-0GA46UTTAXLHqHnrS7ncLzjci
Student Works:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hejn0g1OcAxDYo_HxhQyEF27ZIhEGM23/view?usp=sharing
Thurs., Aug. 25.
Lecture 1. Introduction: History of World Architecture as Collective Inquiry of Multidimensional Situated Knowing and Seeing
Lecture Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJxzF68g608
Tues., Aug. 30.
Lecture 2. Prehistory: Architecture And/Or Nature
Caves and Huts revealing Endless Passages in lieu of Universal Origin
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/MWedfPo_tAA
Thurs., Sept. 1.
Lecture 3. Prehistory: Prehistory: Vernacular Architecture Throughout
A Living Language of Mud, Logs, Hides, Stones, and More
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/MmduHKSZN4M
Tues., Sept 6.
Lecture 4. Prehistory: Megaliths and Stone Circles
Building as Arbitrary Communication based on Living/Dead Memories
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/I1rzJ4TWcv4
Thurs., Sept. 8.
Lecture 5. 3000-1500 BCE: Cities of Mesopotamia
“Principle Worker” among Mud, Gods, and Urbanism
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/8hv-reG8MeM
Tues., Sept. 13.
Lecture 6. 3000-1500 BCE: Old Kingdom Egypt and the Indus Valley
Infrastructuring with Water
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/EHPliRS_qdI
Thurs., Sept. 15.
Lecture 7. 1500-750 BCE: The Aegean in the Bronze Age
Piecemeal Labyrinth
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/lByFy7RPyMU
Tues., Sept. 20.
Lecture 8. 1500-750 BCE: New Kingdom Egypt
Axial and Colossal as Technology for Durability
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/5epSRPAFjWs
Thurs., Sept. 22.
Lecture 9. 1500-750 BCE: Biblical Jerusalem
Architecture, Memory, Floating Signifier and Microgenesis
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/SZjKbhqVYlA
Thurs., Oct. 6.
Lecture 10. 700-200 BCE: Southwest Asia and Achaemenid Persia
Performativity as Irrigation for the Empire
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/gtaJGIAM2j4
Thurs., Oct. 13.
Lecture 12. 700-200 BCE: Mauryan India
From Going Around in Circles to Inhabiting the Sphere
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/uLI4VoNK13A
Tues., Oct. 18.
Lecture 13. 200 BCE-300 CE: Ancient Rome
Vesuvius, Vitruvius, Hot and Wet Togetherness
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/FGWZjfK7QG4
Thurs., Oct. 20.
Lecture 14. 200 BCE-300 CE: Ancient China
Alternative Sustainability with TU MU and the Science of the Concrete
Lecture Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJxzF68g608
Thurs., Oct. 27.
Lecture 16. 300-600: Early Christian Italy
The Messy Coming-into-being of Models
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/0_DmU4o7yA4
Thurs., Nov. 3.
Lecture 18. 300-600: “Gupta” India
Rock-Cut Architecture and the Art of Love-Making
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/CQoyUuKPgQA
Thurs., Nov. 10.
Lecture 20. 600-800: Tang China and East Asia
Farming “Empty” Atmosphere
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/I4X7spInUSI
Tues., Nov. 15.
Lecture 21. 600-800: The Maya of Central America
Crafting your own Mountain of Civilization
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/tBTW_7EVsa4
Thurs., Nov. 17.
Lecture 22. 800-1200: Southeast Asia and Southern India
Lived-In Meditation in lieu of Grids of Cosmic Order
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/zMzCuIJYM20
Tues., Nov. 22.
Lecture 23. 800-1200: Islamic Spain and Morocco
Interlacing Times
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/p4oZ5jQN4wk
Tues., Nov. 29.
Lecture 24. 800-1200: Western Europe After the Roman Empire
Nulla roma est/ Rosanesque
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/jdFFSGaGtTI
Thurs., Dec. 1.
Lecture 25. 1200-1400: The Mercantile Mediterranean and Gothic Europe
Styling till the point of Collapsing
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/hWU4AZ0hYJ8
Tues., Dec. 6.
Lecture 26. 1200-1400: Sub-Saharan Africa
We Sail
Lecture Recording: https://youtu.be/4LcRxhZpk54