The course aims at providing the methodological tools for understanding the development of Urban Culture and Architectural Design in the Mediterranean world during the middle ages and the pre-modern era.
Emphasis is on offering multiple explanations on the interaction between the socio-historical context and the architecture it produced taking into account issues of political ideology, economy, philosophy, technology and cultural production in general. The students are introduced to different ways of approaching and understanding urban design and architectural production focusing on up-to-date questions and problems regarding the state of recent research of the discipline. The (course) survey is organized through the analysis of key monuments and sites explained through an examination of all relevant issues in parallel developments in the art and culture of the time.
Byzantium
R. Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, New Haven 19864 (Revised Edition byR. Krautheimer and S. Curcic)
C. Mango, Byzantine Architecture, New York 1976
T. F. Mathews, The Early churches of Constantinople Architecture and Liturgy, University Park 1971
T. F. Mathews, The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul: A Photographic Survey, University Park 1976
W. Muller – Wiener, Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls, Tubingen 1977
R. Ousterhout, Master Builders of Byzantium, Princeton 1999
Γ. Μ. Βελένης, ΜεσοβυζαντινήΝαοδομίαστηΘεσσαλονίκη, Αθήνα2003
Ν. Γκιολές, Βυζαντινή Ναοδομία (600-1204), Αθήνα 1987
Χ. Μπούρας, Βυζαντινή και Μεταβυζαντινή αρχιτεκτονική στην Ελλάδα, Αθήνα 2001
Islam
K. A. C. Creswel, A Short account of Early Muslim Architecture, Harmondsworth 1958
G. Michell (ed.), Architecture of the Islamic world: its history and social meaning, with a complete survey of key monuments, London 1978
J. D. Hoag, Western Islamic Architecture, London 1968
G. Goodwin, A history of Ottoman architecture, London 1971