Turkey: Selected Topics in History of Architecture

Summer 2010: May 30 - June 18, 2010

ARCH 428T/628T (3 Credits)

Faculty & Staff

This course will be taught by Prof. R. Lindley Vann of the UM School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.  Prof. Vann is an expert in architectural history, teaching both general survey courses, and also upper division and graduate classes in the fields of Greek, Roman, Islamic, and Pre-Columbian architecture.  He has excavated at Sardis (Turkey), Carthage (Tunisia), Humeima (Jordan), and Sigiriya (Sri Lanka); co-directed underwater excavations in the harbor of Herod the Great at Caesarea (Israel); and since 1991 has directed the University of Maryland Survey of Ancient Harbors in Turkey. Beginning in 2001 he has also co-directed projects in Pompeii and Stabia (Italy).  Prof. Vann has led study abroad courses to Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, Italy, and Egypt.