After successful completion of the course, students are able to classify American buildings due to stylistic and chronological parameters as well as to retrace developments within American architecture.
The structure of this course consists of chapters of architecture and urban planning. After a 'relaunch' the lecture's concept will be based on chronolgy from the upcoming summer semester 2015. The discussion of typical American building styles will be supplemented by emphasized topic-related architects.
In this lecture course American buildings erected during the past 400 years will be introduced and analyzed, starting with colonial architecture of the 17th century. The emphasis will be put on the development of typical American building types and urban planning such as skyscrapers or university-campus-planning. Supplementary discussions of topic-related architects will add to the contents of the lecture course.
Interaction with the students is highly desired and is supported by menti surveys at the beginning of the lectures and by the accompanying Instagram account @architektur_nordamerika_2019.
Update Nov. 17th, 2020
Due to the new regulations on the part of the Rectorate, the remaining examinations will be held orally via Zoom until the end of January, in groups of 5 students each. New examination dates will be announced, please check TISS regularly in the next few days.Registration for exams is only possible for regular participants of the course in the summer term 2020, they are on the whitelist. The whitelist dates from BEFORE the pandemic and will not be extended! Participants rejected for capacity reasons in 2020 or listeners from previous years can take the remaining places: if you are interested, please send an email with the subject "remaining place-exam-date" as soon as the registration for the respective date opens. After estimating the capacity utilization, the acceptance or cancellation will be made at the latest 1 week before the examination date.I urgently appeal to everyone to register only if there is a serious intention to take the exam, in order not to block exam places!
