Before the scramble for Africa: tracing African architecture through trade, student presentation by Nancy Demerdash.

1. The Temple in the Cave: Rock-cut Architecture (Karin Oen)
2. A Global History of Pilgrimage: An Introduction (Christian Hedrick)
3. Before the Scramble for Africa: Tracing African Architecture Through Trade (Nancy Demerdash)
4. 20th Century African Urbanism: Three Vignettes (John Ellis)
5. Decorative Brickwork: A Global History (Zameer Basrai)
6. Global Port Cities (Shiben Banerji)

This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course will be run in the form of a writing seminar, except that students will be asked to prepare for the final class an hour-long lecture for an undergraduate survey course. During the semester, students will study the debates about where to locate "the global" and do some comparative analysis of various textbooks. The topic of the final lecture will be worked on during the semester. For that lecture, students will be asked to identify the themes of the survey course, and hand in the bibliography and reading list for their lecture.



Learning Objectives

Students will learn to work through macro and micro issues about researching history from a global perspective as well as learn how to present a coherent and well-crafted lecture.



Original Course Name: 4.696 A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar



- Syllabus