Housing and Cities

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Free Online Course: Housing and Cities provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 weeks long, 2-3 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. Housing and Cities is taught by Karen Zysman, Catarina Wall Gago and Luca Ortelli.

Overview
  • Housing and Cities is a design-oriented architecture course that focuses on key moments of European urban housing history. It looks into ordinary or replicated housing types of different social classes that contributed to the definition of urban identity across borders and time.

    Each topic is first introduced through a general overview that examines housing from an urban point of view. Secondly, each topic is illustrated through a typological analysis, aiming for a detailed vision of domestic life at each time.

    Students are encouraged to have an operative view of the course, appreciating how modern and contemporary architecture has reinterpreted and been influenced by different housing models.

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