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The SCAD architectural history department is devoted to interpreting the built environment in a practical and professional way.
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Meet architectural history student Bridgid Byrne.

Offered in: Savannah

ARLH	206	Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
ARLH	208	Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
ARTH	100	Survey of Western Art I
ARTH	110	Survey of Western Art II
	-	300- or 400-level ARLH Elective*
	-	ARLH Elective*
	-	ARLH Elective*
	-	Non-Western ARLH Elective*
Total course of study		40 hours

* Consult your faculty adviser in selecting elective courses.

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From the Bottom Up: An Exploration of Design Rooted in Experiment, Specificity, and the Primacy of Ideas Feb 16, 2012

SCAD Day - Savannah Feb 18, 2012

Patricia Kuhn publishes chapter

Patricia Kuhn (B.F.A., architectural history, 2000) published a chapter, "J. W. Marriott and the Development of the Motor Hotel," in Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area.
McWilliams begins Ph.D. at University of York

In fall 2010 Evan McWilliams (B.F.A., architectural history, 2008; M.A., architectural history, 2010) began his Ph.D. in art and architectural history at the University of York, where his research focuses on the study of churches of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose designs were influenced by what are commonly known as the English Use liturgies.
Walker pursues Ph.D. in architectural history

Nathaniel Walker (M.A., architectural history, 2006) is pursuing his Ph.D. in architectural history at Brown University, and delivered a paper titled "A Slave in His Place: Racial Regulation and Segregation in the Savannah Squares" at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in New Orleans on April 15, 2011. He is the first SCAD architectural history alumnus to present at this national conference.

Architectural History