Architectural Analysis --Architecture and History--Some Basics

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 3-23-55-101-119-135.
*Whittaker, "Architecture and the American Dream."
*Article on Edward Larrabee Barnes
Packard Book

Reading response--Whittaker

Architectural Analysis and Critique

*Vitruvius, excerpts.
*Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin (excerpts).

Group Reports: Cossitt, Cutler, Bemis

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Reading Assignment--See Below

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 159-188.

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Egypt and the Aegean

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 188-219.
*Kostof, "The Practice of Architecture in the Ancient World."

Film on the Pyramids

Greek Architecture

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 220-245.
Summerson 7-13.

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

Roman Architecture I

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 246-273.
Summerson 13-20.
*MacDonald, "Roman Architects."  

Roman Architecture II

*MacDonald, The Pantheon, excerpts.

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 275-299.
*Procopius, Paul the Silentiary on Hagia Sophia.

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

Islamic Architecture

*Trachtenberg and Hyman, "Islam and the West."
*Predock, "The Alhambra."

Report: Dome of the Rock--Religion and Politics

TH 2/7

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 323-351.
*Abbot Suger, On Administration, excerpts.

Reading response: Abbot Suger

Report: A Gothic Architect's Sketchbook

Gothic Architecture II

*Robert Mark, "Gothic Structure."
Film:  Cathedral Engineers   

Report: Beauvais Cathedral--Why did it Collapse?

Renaissance--Changing Role of the Architect

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 353-395; 118-128.
*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

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BLOCK BREAK--LOOK AT ARCHITECTURE
WHEREVER YOU ARE

Eighteenth Century
 
Roth, Understanding Architecture, 439-467.
Summerson 34-40.
*Foucault excerpts.

Reading Response: Foucault

Report:  The Ideal City of Chaux

W 2/20

Nineteenth Century European

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 469-493.
*Barthes, "The Eiffel Tower."

Reports:  The Crystal Palace; The Paris Opera

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

Reading Response: Upton

Class Report: Colonial Williamsburg:
Historic Preservation and American Politics

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

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 493-510.
Wiseman, 47-114.
*Sullivan, "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered."
*Wright, “Art and Craft of the Machine," "Building the New House."
*Levine, "Abstraction and Analysis in Oak Park."

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

TU 2/26

Early Modern Architecture, Turn of the Century Europe

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 511-521.
*Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime."

Reading Response: Loos   

W 2/27

1920s 1930s Europe & America

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 522-537.
Wiseman 115-148.
*Readings by Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier

Late FL Wright

Wiseman 149-197.
*Levine, "The Temporal Dimension of Fallingwater"
*Toker, Fallingwater Rising, excerpt.

Reading Response: Fallingwater Rising.

M 3/3

Field Trip to Colorado Springs USAFA

*Readings on the Air Force Academy

Response to USAFA (before & after our visit)

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 3/5

International Style Architecture:
1960s-1970s;

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 537-565.
Wiseman 268-373.
*Wines, "Vertiscapes: The Skyscraper as Garden"
* Hughes, "Trouble in Utopia."

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.

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   

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Reports on Contemporary Architects

Continue in the early afternoon

Reports on Contemporary Architects