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Architectural History Minor

Explore the history, context, and preservation of built environments.
Department of Art History
Leverage an interdisciplinary approach to studying architectural spaces, design processes, and construction practices across historical periods. You will analyze architecture and its context from multiple points of view, and fields of study, to build a layered understanding of architectural history.
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Expand your major with an Architectural History minor!
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This interdisciplinary minor administered by the Department of Art History is designed for students interested in exploring architectural history from a variety of disciplines. Architectural history uses methods familiar to art and architectural historians, architects, urban designers, landscape architects and historians, historic preservationists, classicists, archaeologists, anthropologists, historical geographers, and social historians to study and understand architecture.

This minor is open to students in all majors. Majors in Art History, Anthropology, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Geography may only double count 6 credits taken in their major field towards this minor.

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Does this sound like you?

You want to understand architecture from multiple points of view and you are excited by the idea of an interdisciplinary approach to studying the history of architecture.

If so, the Architectural History minor sounds like a great fit for you!

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Architectural study with wood, concrete, and smoke.
Architectural study with wood, concrete, and smoke.
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Pep Avilés

Stuckeman Career Development Professor in Design

Pep Avilés is a historian, architect, and professor specializing in postwar and contemporary architecture. His academic research explores the impact media had on the materiality of architecture and the redefinition of modernism after World War II.

Avilés’ work has been sponsored by the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Getty Research Center, and has been exhibited at the Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona (2017) and the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019), among others. He is the founding editor of the journal Faktur: Documents and Architecture.

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Pep Avilés, Stuckeman Career Development Professor in Design
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Recent Publications by Curator Adam Thomas

Adam Thomas,  Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of American Art recently published a chapter titled "How to Paint a Ghost around 1900" in an exhibition catalog published by


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Stuckeman School professor co-edits new book on sustaining city streets
Ken Tamminga, distinguished professor of landscape architecture, has coedited a new book that examines city streets and their vast array of activities over time.
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Emily Hagen, PhD candidate co-authored CAA review

Emily Hagen, PhD candidate in Art History and Nancy Um, Professor of art history at Binghamton University co-authored "What Do We Know about the Future of Art History? Part 2,


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