Architecture Courses and Lectures

Watch our architecture courses and landscape architecture courses and lectures, taught by prestigious university professors and other experts.

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How Food Shapes Our Cities

In this video, Carolyn Steel explores the unbreakable connection between food and cities and explains why that connection is endangered by modern food production and distribution methods. Steel is the author of “Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives,” and is a well-known lecturer on the connection between food and urban design.

john norquist

How Well-Designed Cities Contribute to the Common Good

Architect John Norquist says that well-designed cities contribute to the common good. He states that economic growth, advancement of education, enrichment of culture, and environmental sustainability are all a result of compact and well-connected cities.

enrique penalosa

City Design In Developing Countries

Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world’s most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems, public spaces and cities.

michael pawlyn

Biomimicry as a solution to sustainable architecture

Biomimicry is the idea of looking to nature to solve human problems. Architect Michael Pawlyn says the answer to sustainability is biomimicry. He states that in order to accomplish our sustainability goals we need to do three things…

Mark Jarzombek MIT Global Architecture

6-Lecture Course: A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar (4.696)

This course is built of student presentations on the history of global architecture. Throughout the course, students do comparative analysis of various textbooks and study debates about where to locate “the global.”

Diana E. E. Kleiner Roman Architecture course

24-Lecture Yale Course: Roman Architecture (HSAR 252)

Rome and its empire are responsible for some of the most magnificent architecture known to man. This course not only studies architecture in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy, but also looks to structures in North Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and North Africa.