At the end of the course students are expected to:

1. Relate concepts borrowed from an interdisciplinary reading into architecture;

2. Analyze sign and symbols in medieval architecture;

3. Describe medieval architecture in the Middle East in a compendium where earliest formations can be related to the later ones in terms of meanings;

4. Set proofs to reveal medieval design methods in terms of cosmology,

5. Delineate architecture as a signification process;

6. Read advanced texts on philosophy and cosmology.