In the course, civil life, rural and urban residences and imperial palaces of Byzantine era are examined along with the settlements unearthed during excavations. The course aims at teaching the emergence, progress and plan features of Byzantine civil architecture, and conception of structural character of the period via analysis.

Examples of Civil Architecture during Early Christian, Middle and Late Byzantine Periods are classified and analyzed pursuant to their plan types. In the course, imperial and rural palaces, cisterns, waterways, hypogeum, hippodrome, forums and monuments are examined in company with visual materials with respect to historical construction phases and plan features.