Architecture

Architecture is a specialisation in the MA in Arts and Culture. In this specialisation you not only study architectural history from the perspective of the architects, their designs and the way in which their work is implemented, you also pay attention to clients, the public and how the public responds to architecture and the built-up environment.

Central themes include:

• Italian baroque
• exchanges between Italy and the Low Countries in the period from 1500 to1750
• alternative architecture discourses in the 20th century, from regionalism and traditionalism to neo-baroque
• architecture theory, where thinking on the impact of buildings on the public is key, as in classical rhetoric or the sublime.

In Leiden you will study these themes in close co-operation with the Dutch interuniversity art history institutes in Rome and Florence. Excursions are a structural part of the programme.