Program Overview

Program Overview

The program "Rome: Continuity and Change" is an intensive five-week summer workshop that takes place in Rome. It is designed to provide a broad overview of the city's major architectural sites, topography, and systems of urban organization. The seminar examines historical continuity and change, as well as the ways in which and the reasons why some elements and approaches were maintained over time and others abandoned.

Program Details

• The program uses hand drawing as a primary tool of discovery during explorations of buildings, landscapes, and gardens, both within and outside the city.
• Students devote the final week to an intensive independent analysis of a building or place.
• The program is open to M.Arch. I second-year and M.Arch. II first-year students.
• The program does not fulfill either the History and Theory or the Urbanism and Landscape elective requirements.
• Limited enrollment.

Credits and Requirements

• Credits: 3
• Requirements: Open only to M.Arch. I second-year and M.Arch. II first-year students.

Faculty

• Bimal Mendis
• Joyce Hsiang
• George Knight
• Miroslava Brooks
• Brennan Buck

Semester Offered

• Summer 2016

Previous Semesters

• Summer 2018: The Robert A.M. Stern Summer Rome Program
  • Instructors: George Knight, Miroslava Brooks, Kyle Dugdale, Stephen Harby
• Summer 2017: Rome: Continuity and Change
  • Instructors: Bimal Mendis, Miroslava Brooks, Joyce Hsiang, George Knight, Tessa Kelly
• Summer 2015: Rome: Continuity and Change
  • Instructors: Stephen Harby, Joyce Hsiang, Bimal Mendis, Alexander Purves, Bryan Fuermann