HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Tentative Schedule, Blocks 5-6 2008



 
Doric Column PART I

FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURE


 
DATE ASSIGNMENTS
M 1/21 Introduction
TU 1/22
 

 

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

W 1/23

Architectural Analysis and Critique

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

Group Reports: Cossitt, Cutler, Bemis

TH 1/24 The Language of Architecture: the Campus

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 25-53, 137-151.
*Article on Tutt Library from Architectural Forum, 1964

Group Reports: Palmer, Tutt Science,
Tutt Library--Should it be saved?
F 1/25

SHORT PAPER DUE

Reading Assignment--See Below


 
Ionic Capital PART II

ARCHITECTURE THROUGH HISTORY


DATE ASSIGNMENT IMAGE FILE
F 1/25


Prehistoric, Ancient Near East

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 159-188.

SHORT PAPER DUE

RK111-1
M 1/28
 
     
 

 

Egypt and the Aegean

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

Film on the Pyramids

RK111-2
TU 1/29

 

Greek Architecture

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

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

RK111-3
W 1/30

Roman Architecture I

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

Report: Roman Baths & Aqueducts
RK111-4
TH 1/31

Roman Architecture II

*MacDonald, The Pantheon, excerpts.

RK111-5
F 2/1 EXAM  
M 2/4
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

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

RK111-6

TU 2/5
Romanesque Architecture

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 301-323.
*Kostof, "Medieval Architects East and West."
The St. Gall Plan (xerox)

Report: Shove Chapel
RK111-7
W 2/6

Islamic Architecture

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

Report: Dome of the Rock--Religion and Politics

RK111-8

TH 2/7

 

 


Gothic Architecture I

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

Reading response: Abbot Suger

Report: A Gothic Architect's Sketchbook

RK111-9
F 2/8




Gothic Architecture II

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

Report: Beauvais Cathedral--Why did it Collapse?

RK111-10
M 2/11

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

TURN IN PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH PROJECT!!

RK111-11
T 2/12
Catch up--REVIEW

W 2/13
EXAM

 

BLOCK BREAK--LOOK AT ARCHITECTURE
WHEREVER YOU ARE

 



  BLOCK 6
 
M 2/18 Baroque and Rococo Architecture

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 397-437.
Summerson, 27-33.
RK111-12
TU 2/19

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

Reading Response: Foucault

Report:  The Ideal City of Chaux

RK111-13

W 2/20


Nineteenth Century European

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

Reports:  The Crystal Palace; The Paris Opera

RK111-14

 
 
Corinthian Capital PART THREE

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: 
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS


 
 
 
TH 2/21 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 2/22
 

 

Nineteenth Century American Architecture

Wiseman 26-45.
*Upton, "An American Icon", review Monticello.

Report: Jefferson's University of Virginia  
RK111-16
M 2/25
 
 
 
 


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

RK111-17

TU 2/26

 

Early Modern Architecture, Turn of the Century Europe

Roth, Understanding Architecture, 511-521.

*Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime."

Reading Response: Loos   

RK111-18

W 2/27

1920s 1930s Europe & America

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

RK111-19
TH 2/28

Late FL Wright

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

Reading Response: Fallingwater Rising.

RK111-20
F 2/29 EXAM

 

M 3/3

 

Field Trip to Colorado Springs USAFA

*Readings on the Air Force Academy

Response to USAFA (before & after our visit)


TU 3/4

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."

RK111-21
TH 3/6

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 3/7

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 3/10

Reports on Contemporary Architects

Continue in the early afternoon

 
TU 3/11

Reports on Contemporary Architects


W  3/12 EXAM

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