The department of architecture offers the Rome Program to fourth-year students in the B.Arch. program and to selected students in the M.Arch. graduate program. This optional course of study is offered yearly in the spring semester and provides a structured curriculum for the direct study of European, and in particular Italian, architecture and urbanism from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The program offers students (what is for most) a first-time
opportunity to travel abroad and experience the physical and cultural
settings of major works of art and design overseas. In addition to significant buildings, the students are exposed to and study the urban geography and culture of a major European capital within the context of its regional landscape and the Italian urban tradition.
At the end of the program, students will:
- have an understanding of the history of Rome, its urban development since antiquity, and the cultural significance of many historic works of Roman art and architecture;
- have learned to make drawings and other graphic representations relevant to the discipline of architecture using diverse media and techniques at an advanced level;
- have completed a major design project--an intensive, focused investigation of a select early modern art/architectural artifact viewed as the embodiment of social and cultural relations indicative of a particular time and place; and
- have direct experience of numerous contemporary and historic sites, buildings, and works of art, related to their course of study.
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