Architecture History

Using the techniques of analysis and criticality learnt during the semester, you are required to structure your paper as a narrative (historical or fictional) that investigates the way an architectural Ancient Object of your choosing is experienced, thought of, and/or lived in our contemporaneity. In other words, you are asked to create a long history of an Ancient object of your choosing. To build your paper, you are required to do academic research on the Object of your choosing, as well as use secondary sources to anchor your narrative.
– Choose a case study (building, site, fragment, representation, etc) and organize your paper as a history that traces its shifting occupations,
experiences, meanings, and architectural modifications to contextualize the ways in which the case study has been used as a tool in different moments, and for different purposes. You must rely on at least three scholarly sources, which you can implement with the use of newspaper articles, oral histories, and various materials to chart a history of a case study from its inception to the way users have embodied and modified its architectural meaning to serve different purposes.
– You are expected to use images not as self-explanatory pictures, but as sources from which to extract evidence for your argument. You are expected to have at least one evidence made through visual and spatial analysis.
– The paper must be six pages long (images excluded), double spaced, in a 12-point font.
– Research Interest: In one sentence, describe what is the motive behind writing the paper and
choosing the case study. What is the objective? What do you want to accomplish/investigate by
focusing on this case study/theme? What are some possible historical references you might be
using? What geographies and temporalities will you be referring to? Your sentence must respond
to the previous research questions.
– Case Study: Provide a short description of the case study: where it is located; where was it made;
where is it now; etc.
– Image: The objective of the image is to practice analytical skills, and already define either one of
the objects of your paper and/or extracting evidence from visual material. That is to say, in
choosing your image make sure that it helps better frame the context of your Research Interest.
– Term Paper Format of your choosing: Choose something that genuinely interests you and that
you can develop through the format that better fit what you aim at achieving in the class.

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