These late summer dates allow you to take courses in summer sessions A and C, which may help you qualify for loans to cover the trip cost. This year we anticipate the cost may be about the same. Upper division undergraduate and graduate students from other parts of the university are welcome to participate with the instructor's permission.
Enrollment is capped at twelve.
We will look from an architect's perspective at London and the natural and historical forces that have shaped it. There will be several field trips outside London, one to York, a medieval city that has survived and adapted to modern demands, another to Bath, a Georgian city that has needed to adapt hardly at all, and a third to Cambridge, a university town with its special requirements. We will also visit Avebury, a stone circle far less famous than Stonehenge, but also less visited and less guarded, where we can walk up to the stones and inside the circle, or Stonehenge itself. We will look at architecture, urbanism, and art. We will visit the sites from which John Constable painted his memorable views of London, and we will also see some of those paintings.