HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Tentative Schedule, Blocks 5-6 2009



 
Doric Column PART I

FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURE


 
DATE ASSIGNMENTS
M 1/19 Introduction
TU 1/20
 

 

Architectural Analysis --Architecture and History--Some Basics

O'Gorman, ABCs of Architecture, 1-29, 65-87.
*Whittaker, "Architecture and the American Dream."
*Article on Edward Larrabee Barnes
Packard Book

Reading response--Whittaker

W 1/21
Architectural Analysis and Critique 
           
*Vitruvius, excerpts.
*Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin (excerpts).             

Group Reports: Cossitt, Cutler, Palmer

TH 1/22

The Language of Architecture: the Campus

O' Gorman, 31-63, 89-107
*Article on Tutt Library from Architectural Forum, 1964.

Group Reports:  Tutt Science, Cornerstone
Tutt Library--Should it be saved? 
F 1/23

SHORT PAPER DUE

Reading Assignment--See Below


 
Ionic Capital PART II

ARCHITECTURE THROUGH HISTORY


DATE ASSIGNMENT IMAGE FILE
F 1/23


Prehistoric, Ancient Near East

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 57-61; 76-84.

SHORT PAPER DUE

RK111-1
M 1/26
 
     
 

 

Egypt and the Aegean

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 62-76; 84-89.
*Kostof, "The Practice of Architecture in the Ancient World."

Film on the Pyramids

RK111-2
TU 1/27

 

Greek Architecture

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 91-115.
*Summerson 7-13.

Reading Response: Greek orders--response to Summerson and Vitruvius

RK111-3
W 1/28

Roman Architecture I

Trachtenberg  and Hyman, 116-139.
*Summerson 13-20. *MacDonald, "Roman Architects."
 
Report: Roman Baths & Aqueducts
RK111-4
TH 1/29

Roman Architecture II

Trachtenberg  and Hyman, 139-157.
*MacDonald, The Pantheon, excerpts.
RK111-5
F 1/30 EXAM  
M 2/2
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 160-183
*Procopius, Paul the Silentiary on Hagia Sophia.

Reading Response Compare the readings on Hagia Sophia
  
Report: San Marco in Venice

RK111-6

TU 2/3
Romanesque Architecture

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 184-213
*Kostof, "Medieval Architects East and West."
The St. Gall Plan (xerox)

Report: Shove Chapel
RK111-7
W 2/4

Islamic Architecture

*Trachtenberg and Hyman, 213-221.
*Predock, "The Alhambra."

Report: Dome of the Rock--Religion and Politics

RK111-8

TH 2/5

 

 


Gothic Architecture I

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 222-246
*Abbot Suger, On Administration, excerpts.

Reading response: Abbot Suger

Report: A Gothic Architect's Sketchbook

RK111-9
F 2/6




Gothic Architecture II

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 247-273
*Robert Mark, "Gothic Structure."
Film:  Cathedral Engineers   

Report: Beauvais Cathedral--Why did it Collapse?

RK111-10
M 2/9

Renaissance--Changing Role of the Architect

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 277-325
*Vasari, "Life of Brunelleschi."
Summerson, 20-26.
*Ettlinger, "The Emergence of the Italian Architect."

Reading Response: Filippo Brunelleschi--Genius or Showman?

Report:  Palladio's Villa Rotunda--Principles & Influence

TURN IN PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH PROJECT!!

RK111-11
T 2/10
Catch up--REVIEW--Renaissance continued.

W 2/11
EXAM

 

BLOCK BREAK--LOOK AT ARCHITECTURE
WHEREVER YOU ARE

 



  BLOCK 6
 
M 2/16 Baroque and Rococo Architecture

Trachtenberg and Hyman, 327-371
*Summerson, 27-33.
RK111-12
TU 2/17

Eighteenth Century
 
Trachtenberg and Hyman, 375-413
*Summerson 34-40.
*Foucault excerpts.

Reading Response: Foucault

Report:  The Ideal City of Chaux

RK111-13

W 2/18


Nineteenth Century European

Trachtenberg and Hyman  415-463
*Barthes, "The Eiffel Tower."

Reports:  The Crystal Palace; The Paris Opera

RK111-14

 
 
Corinthian Capital PART THREE

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: 
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS


 
 
 
TH 2/19 Early American Architecture:  The American House

Wiseman 15-25, 201-225.
*Upton, "An American Icon."

Reading Response: Upton

Class Report: Colonial Williamsburg:
Historic Preservation and American Politics

RK111-15
F 2/20
 

 

Nineteenth Century American Architecture

Review American buildings in Trachtenberg and Hyman, chapter 11
Wiseman 26-45.
*Upton, "An American Icon", review Monticello.

Report: Jefferson's University of Virginia  

RK111-16
M 2/23
 
 
 
 


Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright's Early Work;
New Technologies

Trachtenberg and Hyman 465-484.
Wiseman, 47-114.
*Sullivan, "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered."
*Wright, “Art and Craft of the Machine," "Building the New House."

Reading Response: Sullivan
   
Reports: One of FLW's Prairie Houses
Greene & Greene's Gamble House

RK111-17

TU 2/24

 

Early Modern Architecture, Turn of the Century Europe

Trachtenberg and Hyman 485-497
*Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime."

Reading Response: Loos   

RK111-18

W 2/25

1920s 1930s Europe & America

Trachtenberg and Hyman 497-507
Wiseman 115-148.
*Readings by Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier

RK111-19
TH 2/26
Late FL Wright


Trachtenberg and Hyman 508-517
Wiseman 149-197.

*Toker, Fallingwater Rising, excerpt.

Reading Response: Fallingwater Rising.

RK111-20
F 2/27 EXAM

 

M 3/2

 

Field Trip to Colorado Springs USAFA

*Readings on the Air Force Academy

Response to USAFA (before & after our visit)


TU 3/3

Field Trip to Denver ALL DAY

*Noel, Denver Architecture, excerpts
*Denver Art Museum from Architectural Record, Jan, 2007
*Silber, Architecture of the Absurd, excerpt.

Response to Daniel Libeskind's Museum (before & after our visit)
Compare it to David Adjaye's MCA.


W 3/4

International Style Architecture:
1960s-1970s;

Trachtenberg and Hyman 508-517
Wiseman 268-373.
*Wines, "Vertiscapes: The Skyscraper as Garden"
*
Hughes, "Trouble in Utopia."

RK111-21
TH 3/5

1980s Second Modernism 
(Post Modernism)


*Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, excerpts.
*Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism."
*McLeod, "Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era"

Reading response: Venturi and/or Jameson with reference to McLeod.

RK111-22
F 3/6

New Urbanism, Sprawl, Contemporary Issues

Wiseman 373-386.
*Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities, excerpt
*Duany, Plater-Zyberk and Speck, Suburban Nation, excerpt.
*"Images" from Understanding Sustainable Architecture.

Film: Subdivide and Conquer   

PROJECTS DUE

RK111-23
M 3/9

Reports on Contemporary Architects

Continue in the early afternoon

 
TU 3/10

Reports on Contemporary Architects


W  3/11 EXAM

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