| Description
| This course will teach students how to conduct inter-regional and inter-cultural research on the worldwide human settlements and vernacular architecture from a comparative perspective as based on the paradigm of the built environment as a representation of realities. Various examples of human settlements and vernacular architecture will be analyzed not only according to the natural factors (e.g. climate, landscape, material and tectonics) but also according to the mental constructs of the external environment (e.g. the "Axis Mundi & Cosmic Cross", the "Including & Excluding Structures" and the "Holy & Unholy Zones"). Such an analysis will enable students to understand the intrinsic values of human settlements and vernacular architecture that should be embodied in the establishment of a sustainable built environment for human beings.
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