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During my year of study at Rubika France (2016) I joined a team of 5 to participate in the Imagine Cup game development competition. For its first phase we had to submit a PowerPoint presentation for a concept we wished to build from in the next phases. We called ours "Beasts". The team was composed of two designers, two game artists and one game programmer. My main responsibility was the level design.
From early october to the end of december 2018 I studied in a course called A Global History of Architecture (4.605x) on the elearning platform edx.org. It is a course produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its elearning initiative MITx.
At the end of the course I was provided with a certificate of achievement certifying that I received a passing grade.
(2 lectures / Week)
Lecture 1: The First Societies
Lecture 2: The Gravettians and the Hunting Traditions of the North
Lecture 3: The Holocene and the Agro-Pastoral Emergence
Lecture 4: Agricultural Emergence
Lecture 5: Stone – Between Life and Death
Lecture 6: Cities and Temples
Lecture 7: After the Cataclysm and the Rise of the Eastern Mediterranean
Lecture 8: Iron and the New World Order
Lecture 9: Persia and Greece
Lecture 10: India and China
Lecture 11: Buddhism - India and Beyond
Lecture 12: Americas - Shaping/Harvesting the Land
Lecture 13: Rome
Lecture 14: Roman Architecture
Lecture 15: Early Christian Architecture
Lecture 16: Christianity and the Roman East
Lecture 17: Early Islamic Architecture
Lecture 18: Early Hindu Architecture
Lecture 19: Borobudur, Angkor, and SE Asia
Lecture 20: The 13th Century - Inner Asia and Beyond
Lecture 21: Medieval Christian Architecture
Lecture 22: Italy - 13th to the 15th Century
Lecture 23: Colonial Transitions
Lecture 24: Time
Course Syllabus :
I decided to take part in this course because I was interested in architecture and how I could connect it to level design.
It turned out to be much more than what I was expecting. Not only was it a thorough overview of the structures themselves and what it would feel like to interact with them, but also it was an intense ride throughout human history.
We spent a lot of time exploring the context of the buildings, presenting their makers, the kind of culture they had, the changes that made it possible, why did they give it this particular form etc... It gave me a much clearer picture of what architecture really is to humans and how it evolved to be the art form it is now.
The teacher of the course worked on two books called Architecture of First Societies and A Global History of Architecture and it was suggested that we acquire both for the course. I highly recommend you to have a look at them if you are interested in the discipline. They are beautiful objects, well wrote and very complete. They are great resources to draw from if your work is related to architecture.
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