Architecture

Pre-Professional & Cooperative Program

The liberal arts curriculum provides a strong foundation for professional study in architecture. As preparation for a professional degree program, Knox offers several courses in the art department that specifically involve the study of architecture. Others develop skills that professional architects will use every day in their careers.

The special cooperative program that Knox offers with Washington University is an excellent choice for students with a strong interest in art and architecture.

The Program
Knox offers seven courses in the art department that specifically involve the study of architecture. Other art courses—such as Site-Specific Art and Interpreting Landscape, as well as a half-dozen more in the field of sculpture—develop skills that professional architects will use in their careers.

Preparation for architectural work requires a background in other fields for which Knox is highly regarded—especially mathematics, physics and history. The result is that Knox students who apply to architecture schools are very well prepared, are accepted into prestigious programs, and excel in their subsequent careers.

Courses in Preparation for Architecture

• Art 123—History of Architecture. Surveys world architecture from the Neolithic to the present.
• Art 202—Greek Art and Architecture. Greek vase-painting, sculpture, and temple architecture are surveyed.
• Art 222—Medieval Art and Architecture. Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture.
• Art 223—Renaissance Art and Architecture. European architecture, sculpture, and painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
• Art 224—Baroque Art and Architecture. Seventeenth and eighteenth century European painting, sculpture and architecture.
• Art 225—Nineteenth Century European and American Art and Architecture. Major movements from Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism.
• Art 226—Twentieth Century European and American Art and Architecture—European and American painting, sculpture and architecture from 1900 to present.
• Art 262—Site-Specific Art. Questions the traditional role of art by taking works outside the gallery context and placing them in a public arena.
• Art 263—Interpreting Landscape. A variety of approaches to the pictorial language of color and drawing is investigated through painting from nature.