Syllabus Exchange
The Vernacular Architecture Forum's Education Committee maintains a Syllabus Exchange for educators, practitioners, enthusiasts, and others interested in the built environment. The Syllabus Exchange makes it possible to keep up with the latest materials and methods in vernacular architecture and cultural landscape studies. These syllabi represent many different approaches to teaching, from printed sources to measuring and drawing in the field to the latest computer mapping and modeling technologies.
The Syllabus Exchange will be updated regularly. The Education Committee invites you to share your own course outlines, reading lists, field itineraries, and other syllabus materials. In order to participate, please send a copy of your syllabus in a widely-used format like Word, RTF, or .pdf to editor@vafweb.org.
| Annmarie Adams, Housing Seminar II: The Cultural Landscape of Home, McGill University, Fall 2006 |
| Anna Andrzejewski, Field Methods in Vernacular Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Summer 2006 |
| Anna Andrzejewski and Arnold Alanen, Topics in Architectural History: American Vernacular Architecture and Landscapes, University of Wisconson, Fall 2001 |
| Gretchen Buggeln, The American Home, Valparaiso University, Spring 2005 |
| Thomas Carter, American Vernacular Architecture, University of Utah, Fall 2006 |
| Thomas Carter, Architecture, Landscape, and the History of the American West, University of Utah, Fall 2007 |
| Thomas Carter, Introduction to American Architecture, University of Utah |
| Elizabeth Cromley, Architecture of American Houses, Northeastern University |
| Howard Davis, Vernacular Building: Past, Present and Future, University of Oregon, Winter 2006. |
| Gail Lee Dubrow, Preservation and the Vernacular Environment, University of Washington, Winter 2001 |
| Andrew S. Dolkart, American Architecture Before 1876, Columbia University, Fall 2007 |
| Preeti Chopra, Cities of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2007 |
| Susan Garfinkel, Material Culture in its Contexts: History and Theory, Smithsonian Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts, Spring 2004 |
| Rebecca Ginsburg, African Architecture and Urbanism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2007 |
| Rebecca Ginsburg, Slavery Sites: Preservation, Commemoration, and Controversies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2005 |
| Marta Gutman, Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urbanism, City College of New York, Fall 2007 |
| Marta Gutman, Architectural Theory and Methods, City College of New York, Fall 2007 |
| Marta Gutman, Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urbanism (graduate seminar), City College of New York, Fall 2007 |
| Kingston Heath, Introduction to Historic Preservation, University of Oregon, Fall 2004 |
| Bernard Herman, The American Home, University of Delaware |
| Bernard Herman, Vernacular Architecture, University of Delaware, Fall 2001 |
| Kim Hoagland, Documentation of Historic Structures, Michigan Technological University, Fall 2006 |
| R. Brooks Jeffery, Documentation and Interpretation of the Historic Built Environment, University of Arizona, Spring 2003 |
| Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Sacred Space in America, Macalester College |
| Carl Lounsbury, Recording Buildings: Field School in Early American Architecture, College of William and Mary, Spring 2003 |
| Christina Maranci, French Gothic Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007 |
| Christina Maranci, Heretics and Iconoclasts: Art and Architecture of the Christian East, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Tania Martin, Summer Field Course in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, Université Laval, Summer 2007 |
| Ann McEwan, History and Heritage: Architecture 1800 to 2000, University of Waikato, Spring 2003 |
| Louis P. Nelson, Early American Architecture, University of Virginia |
| Louis P. Nelson, Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation, Summer 2005 |
| Louis P. Nelson, Field Methods in Historic Preservation, University of Virginia, Spring 2006 |
| Micheline Nilsen, Issues in Art History: The Townhouse of the Atlantic Rim, Pratt Institute |
| L. Scott Philyaw, Early Southern History & Decorative Arts: The Southern Backcountry, MESDA/UNCG Summer Institute, Summer 2003 |
| Julie Riesenweber, (North) American Architecture I, University of Kentucky, Fall 2007 |
| Julie Riesenweber, Introduction to Historic Preservation, University of Kentucky |
| Julie Riesenweber, Vernacular Architecture, University of Kentucky, Spring 2007 |
| Daves Rossell, American Cultural Landscape, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fall 2002 |
| Daves Rossell, Vernacular Architecture, Savannah College of Art and Design, Winter 2004 |
| Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, Why Space Matters to History, University of New Mexico, Spring 2004 |
| Pam Simpson, Seminar in Vernacular Architecture, Washington & Lee University, Fall 2000 |
| Nora Pat Small, History of American Architecture, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2007 |
| Abigail Van Slyck, Domestic Architecture in the United States, Connecticut College, Fall 2001 |
| Michael Teitz, James Buckley and Greg Newmark, History of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2007 |
| Dell Upton, American Vernacular Architecture, University of Virginia, Fall 2002 |
| Dell Upton, Cities in History, University of Virginia, Spring 2007 |
| Dell Upton, History & Anthropology of the Modern City, University of Virginia, Fall 2004 |
| Dell Upton, Introduction to Material Culture Studies, University of Virginia, Spring 2003 |
| Dell Upton, Material Culture Theory & Methods, University of Virginia, Fall 2003 |
| Aaron Wunsch, Life on the Edge: Residential Landscapes Along Virginia’s Elizabeth River, University of Virginia, Fall 2007 |
| Carla Yanni, Nineteenth Century Architecture in the United States, Rutgers University |