This course will survey architectural culture in various parts of the world over a broad span of history from the Prehistoric up to the Roman period c. 300 C.E. During this semester you will become acquainted with architectural form and style, the use of building materials and technologies, a range of building types, and issues of siting and program. You will see how architecture and urbanism are linked to climate and geography (the natural world), and governmental, religious and philosophical systems (the socio-cultural world).