Architecture Through a Liberal Arts Lens

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Students blend anthropology and art history in an immersive class around campus.

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Student looking at Robert Frost's statue
(Video by Chris Johnson)

Lecturer , a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows, this spring used sites on campus as the basis for the Architecture in the Field class, which was cross-listed both for anthropology and art history.

Students did fieldwork around such places as and Russo Atrium in the to get a better sense of the buildings and the environment around them.

The immersive experience, Gambetta noted, helped them look at architectural history through a liberal arts lens.

Chris Johnson