Professor Andrew Shanken’s plenary talk discusses the global scope of teaching architectural history
Professor of Architecture Andrew Shanken spoke at a plenary session at the April conference of Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative members in Miami. His talk, titled “Borobudur and the World,” addressed using the 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple as a launching point for teaching a global-oriented view of architecture. Professor Shanken is an architectural and urban historian with a focus on how cultural constructions of memory shape the built environment, and vice versa. He is a faculty curator of the Environmental Design Archives and on the Faculty Advisory Committee at the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Global Urban Humanities.
The GAHTC Members’ Conference is a forum for content presentations, teacher-to-teacher workshops on pedagogical techniques, as well as opportunity to collectively discuss GAHTC goals, progress, and imperatives.
To read more about the conference and about resources provided by GAHTC, please visit their website.
