Urban Design: Ancient with Modern Course Handbook Urban Design: Ancient with Modern Urban Design: Ancient with Modern
Teaching Institution: Chelsea College of Arts Credits: 3 Class Hours: 5 hours/week for 10 weeks Tutor: George Rome Innes
Course Outline Assessment This module will take place outside college, in the city. You Final project (100%) will see great buildings, important interiors and unique treasures. Each session’s visit will be recorded in your diary, Project as photographs,sketches and notes. Consider how the Critical Commentary buildings we see were constructed with the technology of their time, consider the use of materials. Look at the Choose two buildings where new uses have been processes used in making furniture and smaller artefacts. implemented or new additions built within the past twenty years. Think of who used the buildings, who uses them now and why? Choose one you consider to be successful design and one you consider to be unsuccessful. How do you feel modern and ancient work together in each case? They should be buildings that you yourself have seen, but the choice of buildings and the opinions are entirely Aims yours. This course will provide you with: Where appropriate look at planning, circulation, lighting and ambience. • To introduce the students to the History of Western Art, Architecture and Design Concentrate on details, junctions where one material meets another. Look at the suitability of materials. • To engender a critical understanding of how old and new design can work together This is to be presented on A4 sheets (one sided) as a visual commentary with annotated illustrations. Outcomes Each page should be headed with the name of the On completing the module you should be able to building, date built and the architect or designer. demonstrate: Your project should be presented to the group on the • An understanding of the history and development final day. of western design and art from its roots in Africa, Your Grades depend upon: through to the early nineteenth century in Europe. • Your research, the analysis of that research the • An assimilation of this knowledge, enabling a critical understanding of the subject. assessment of modern additions to existing historic buildings. • The quality of your presentation. • Your level of responsibility, engagement and Learning and Teaching Methods attendance and will also contribute to your final • Visits to museums, galleries and historic buildings grades. • Group discussions • Library study • Photography & sketching • Producing an annotated visual project Urban Design: Ancient with Modern
Schedule WEEK ONE City of Westminster - Chelsea College to Trafalgar Square Historic: Westminster Abbey, Parliament Square, National Gallery Modern: Westminster Abbey New Museum National Gallery: Sainsbury Wing by Venturi & Scott Brown & new entrance by Jeremy Dixon& Ed Jones.
WEEK TWO City of London - Tower of London to St Paul’s and Tate Modern A walk encompassing the history of the city from 41AD to the present day. Historic:: St Paul’s Cathedral & the City Churches Modern: Tate Modern & Newport Street Gallery The East End - Whitechapel, Brick Lane, Christ Church & Spitalfields Historic:: Christ Church Social history of immigration on the streets of Spitalfields Modern: Refurbishment and extension to the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Redevelopment of Spitalfields Market.
WEEK THREE The Foundations of Western Civilization, The Classical Past - British Museum Historic: Egypt, Greece & Rome. The Enlightenment and the history of the Museum. Modern: The Great Court
WEEK FOUR The Italian Renaissance - Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Gallery Historic: Renaissance architecture, sculpture & furniture. Renaissance painting & the restored high Victorian Galleries. Modern: Gallery design in particular the work by Eva Jirikna & Amanda Levete.
WEEK FIVE The English Renaissance - Banqueting House and Greenwich (a river trip) Historic: Inigo Jones introducing Palladian architecture to England. Hawksmoor & Wren: English Baroque. Modern: Well-designed visitor facilities added to the National Maritime Museum.
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WEEK SIX Roman & Georgian England - City of Bath Historic: Roman Baths, Assembly Room, the Abbey Church & Georgian House Town Planning and detail in the City of Bath by the two John Woods. Modern: The Roman Baths have been newly and brilliantly displayed. Holburn Museum: An uncompromising extension by Eric Parry to a fine Georgian building.
WEEK SEVEN Tudor & Baroque - Hampton Court Palace Historic: This visit is largely historic, showing the Palace as it would have been during various periods from the time of Cardinal Wolsey through to Christopher Wren’s work for William & Mary and later Georgian interiors. Modern: We will look at the excellent restorations carried out after the fire of 1986
WEEK EIGHT Georgian & Victorian - Kenwood House, & Kings Cross Historic: Kenwood House, concentrating on the work of Robert Adam. King’s Cross & St Pancras: great Victorian engineering and flamboyant Victorian architecture Modern: Magnificent upgrading of the two stations and restoration of St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and new developments in the area.
WEEK NINE High Georgian - Sir John Soane’s Museum & Somerset House Historic: High Georgian architecture and interior design from the three greatest masters of the period Adam, Chambers & Soane. Modern: At Somerset House, interesting basement redesign by Sam Lloyd and other elegant modern interiors. At Sir John Soane’s Museum, the complete restoration of the Model Room and Private apartments
WEEK TEN Crit and presentation of Project.(see page 2) Old with New, Success and Failure, fully annotated Urban Design: Ancient with Modern
Tutor George Rome Innes has an MA Art History by Research from Birkbeck College, University of London, has studied Medicine and Architecture and so has a wide knowledge base. He has carried out research, restoration work and made architectural exhibitsfor the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the RIBA Drawings Collection, the Courtauld Institute and Westminster Cathedral in London, the Bodleian and Ashmoleum in Oxford, Kings College Cambridge and the National Trust. He teaches History of Art and Design, orthographic drawing and architectural model making at Chelsea College of Arts and at the London College of Communication. He also regularly conducts Architectural and Interior Design tours for the Short Course Unit of University of the Arts London at Chelsea, and has taken students on Art History tours to Italy. Bibliography To Read: Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art (has been translated into 30 languages) Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture Murray, Linda and Peter, Art of the Renaissance To dip into: Palladio, Andrea, The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Books) Summerson, John, Georgian London Summerson, John, Architecture in Britain 1530‐1830 The Bible (King James version 1611) Matthew is the most readable gospel and Revelations is essential and exciting Reference: Fletcher, Sir Bannister, The History of Architecture Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: London 1: City of London London 2: South London 3: North West London 4: North London 5: East and Docklands London 6: Westminster Wittkower, Rudolf, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600‐1750 Gombrich, E.H., Art and Illusion