This course will aim to explore the Mediterranean, a region of great importance to trade, culture and politics over many centuries that continues to defy conventional academic and geographic categories. The course will aim to expand the existing discussion towards the inclusion of the built environment and cultural artifacts, and contemporary reverberations of the region’s history.

For centuries, architectural drawings have been at the center of the profession: how architects come up with ideas, share them with clients, and communicate with builders. The seminar takes the point of view that hand drawing can still be a useful instrument for the architect, and that the ways how may be understood in part through a study of past drawings, studied in the original.