Exploring Architecture
Day 1:
Day 1: What is Architecture?
Is this architecture?
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These are cliff dwellings inhabited between c. 1100 and 1250 by a group which archaeologists call Sinagua. They are located inside Walnut Creek National Monument southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona.
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This is an example of a cavate inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo People between c. 1150 and 1550. The ancient Pueblo created these dwellings by enlarging and shaping openings in the Bandelier Tuff (volcanic ash stone) cliffs.
In this video, Bandelier National Monument shows us a computer-generated vision of what the Pueblo houses at Bandelier may have looked like.
This is the east-facing entrance of Newgrange, a Neolithic cairn in the Republic of Ireland.
Although we do not know for sure why this was constructed, we have discovered human remains inside and we understand that an opening above this east-facing entrance allows sunlight into the inner chamber during the morning of the Winter Solstice. In this video, the National Monuments Service describes Newgrange for us.
How can we look at and think about these spaces as architecture?
Why do we have these spaces after so many years?
How are the people who made these spaces using the physical world around them?
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Day 5:
Tour of Downtown Hastings
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Day 8:
Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Day 9:
Middle Eastern and Islamic Architecture