Architecture Through a Liberal Arts Lens
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Students blend anthropology and art history in an immersive class around campus.
Lecturer Curt Gambetta, a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows, this spring used sites on campus as the basis for the Architecture in the Field class, which was cross-listed both for anthropology and art history.
Students did fieldwork around such places as Bartlett Tower and Russo Atrium in the Hood Museum of Art to get a better sense of the buildings and the environment around them.
The immersive experience, Gambetta noted, helped them look at architectural history through a liberal arts lens.