Course Details

1. Form a sense of place and of the cultural landscape in relation to the location, ie mountainous, hilly, plains.
2. Recognize the local architecture of the rural architecture of Cyprus, and analyse the theory and techniques and technologies of their creators.
3. Analyse projects in urban areas as developments of rural architecture interwoven with elements of medieval and modern Cyprus, identify the theory and techniques and technologies of their creators.
4. Identify the interactions, in the concepts of form and space, of humanity and the local environment, as well as analyse the need for harmonious design taking into account human needs and scale of the local area.
5. Collect, investigate and record information on historical and theoretical issues from a wide range of sources.

Introduction to the cypriot environment: The materials, the natural forces as well as the landscape that formed the architecture in the various areas mountains, hills and the plains.

Local rural architecture of Cyprus: ?he theory and the techniques and technologies of building in rural Cyprus used by the local people.

Urban traditional architecture: The formation of the urban architecture as a development from the rural architecture with historical and other cultural factors affecting its development.  What techniques and material were used in the urban settings.

Typology and Morphology of the local architecture:  How its is formed both by the people as well as the environment and the locality. 

Historical analysis: The development and impact of the  various historical periods in Cyprus such as the gothic, the venetian the ottoman etc

• Σ. Σίνου, Αναδρομή στην λαϊκή αρχιτεκτονική της Κύπρου, Αθήνα 1976.

• Ι. Ionas, La maison rurale de Chypre (XVIIIe-XXe siècle), aspects et techniques de construction, Nicosie 1988.
• .Χ. Παπαχαραλάμπους, Η κυπριακή οικία, Δημοσίευμα κέντρου επιστημονικών ερευνών ΧΧΙΧ, Λευκωσία 2001
• Π. Καλαθά, Ρ. Νικολάου, Ε. Πετροπούλου, Δ. Μυριανθέας, Παραδοσιακοί οικισμοί Κύπρου, Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο, 2003.
• Α. Θεοδοσίου, Α. Πίττα, Οικισμοί - Αρχιτεκτονική Ακάμα, Ιδρυμα Λεβέντη, 1996
• D. Hunt , Gothic art and the Renaissance in Cyprus, London 1987.

The taught part of the course is delivered to students by means of lectures, conducted by electronic presentations. Lecture notes and pictures are given to students in electronic form.