DESN 108: World Architecture
Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
This survey of non-Western architectural history examines how non-Western building traditions evolved during and after Western and Islamic colonialism. The course focuses on the cultural conditions and forces that shaped the indigenous architecture of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Islamic empires, India, China, South-East Asia, and Japan.