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Neo-Classical and 19Th-Century Architecture Ahis-265-01 Prof NEO-CLASSICAL AND 19TH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AHIS-265-01 PROF. K. CURRAN FALL/2016 TTH 2:55—4:10/Hallden Hall 105 Office hours in Hallden Hall: T and TH (12:15—2:00) (and by appt.) email: [email protected] (ext. 2504) Exams and Projects: First Test – October 4-- 20% Second Test – Nov. 8--30% Project Due – December 12-- 20% Last Test -- December 15 (during final exam period)-- 30% READING: Required Texts: There are two required textbooks for this class. The first is Barry Bergdoll, European Architecture, 1750—1890 (Oxford, 2000), which is available in the bookstore. The second is an assembled coursepak of readings, which will be distributed in class. Reading should parallel lectures, and all reading is subject to examination. It is a good idea to review lecture notes with slides after each class. The images for which you are responsible for tests will be scanned and put into a review unit in ArtStor. PROJECT: There will be one approximately ten-page paper (or architectural model) due December 12 that will be worth 20% of final grade. The project will be discussed further in class. Class Etiquette: It is imperative that you follow the College’s rules about requesting overtime on tests due to disabilities. I must be notified at least ten days in advance for extended time. Please be sure to arrive in class on time. Attendance is mandatory. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE RENAISSANCE TRADITION CA. 1750 Sept. 6: Introduction to Class: Why 1750? Reading: Peter Collins,“The Influence of Historiography,” in Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture (coursepak); Bergdoll, 1-5 Sept. 8: The French Rationalist Tradition from Perrault to Soufflot Reading: Middleton & Watkin, chapter 1, “The Rational Tradition in France” (coursepak); Bergdoll, 9-15; 23-32 Sept. 13: British Aesthetic Theory: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque Reading: Middleton & Watkin, ch. 2, “The Picturesque Tradition in England” (coursepak); Bergdoll, 73-85; 129-33; 142-45. Sept. 15: No class; assignment. ARCHITECTURE 1750—1800: THE BIRTH OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE SPREAD OF NEOCLASSICISM Sept. 20 Assignment Due Sept. 20: Early Neo-Classicism in England (Piranesi, Robert Adam, Stuart & Revett) Reading: Bergdoll, 14-23; 33-41. Sept. 22: Visionary Architecture Reading: Middleton and Watkin, ch. 5, pp. 177-193 “Visionary Architecture” (coursepak);Bergdoll, 86-90; 97-102. Sept. 22: Eccentric Rationalism in England (Dance, Soane, Gandy) Reading: Middleton & Watkin, ch. 5, pp. 193-206 “Dance and Soane” (coursepak); Bergdoll, 91-94; 117-127. Sept. 27: Napoleon's Paris and the Ecole Systems Reading: Leonardo Benevolo, “Engineering and Neo-classicism,” in History of Modern Architecture, Vol. 1, pp. 27-37 (coursepak). Sept 29: Neo-Classicism in the New Republic (Jefferson, Latrobe, L'Enfant) Reading: selections from William H. Pierson, Jr., American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles, on University of Virginia and Latrobe in America, pp. 316— 372, (coursepak) Oct. 4: First Test ARCHITECTURE 1800--1850: RISE OF NATIONAL STYLES IN EUROPE Post-Napoleonic Germany and France: the Greek Revival, Rundbogenstil, Polychromy Debates, the Néo-Grèc Oct. 6: The City as Cultural Machine: Schinkel's Berlin Reading: David Watkin and Tilman Mellinghoff, ch. 4 "Karl Friedrich Schinkel" in German Architecture and the Classical Ideal , pp. 85—117 (coursepak); Bergdoll, 69-71; 189-95. Oct. 13: The City as Architectural Collage: Ludwig I's Munich Reading: Watkin and Mellinghoff, ch. 6 "Leo von Klenze" in German Architecture and the Classical Ideal (coursepak); Bergdoll, 145-52; 184-89. Oct. 18: Hittorff and the Polychromy Debates/ Henri Labrouste and the Néo-Grèc Reading: R. D. Middleton, "Hittorff's Polychrome Campaign," ch. 9 in The Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-Century French Architecture pp. 174—195 (coursepak) Reading (for Labrouste): Middleton and Watkin, vol. II, pp. 229-236 (start with the section discussing Henri Labrouste in coursepak); Bergdoll, 175-184. Early Victorian Architecture in England and the USA/City and Suburb in the USA Oct. 20: The Gothic Revival: Gothic Nationalism vs. Gothic as Moral Principle Reading: Bergdoll, 139—42; 152—65 Oct. 25: The Gothic Revival in America Reading: William H. Pierson, ch. 4 "Richard Upjohn and the Gothic Revival in America," from American Buildings and their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque , vol. 2 , pp. 159-172 (coursepak) Oct. 27: Associationism and Cult of Styles in America/New York, the Empire City, 1825—1861 Reading: Morrison H. Heckscher, “Building the Empire City: Architects and Architecture,” (coursepak) from Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825—1861 Oct. 27: Cottage, Villa, Suburb, and the Cult of Domesticity Reading: Andrew Jackson Downing, selections from Cottage Residences, (coursepak); and “The Emergence of Suburbia” in (coursepak) TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY AT MID-CENTURY/REACTIONS AGAINST THEM Nov. 1: Technology at Mid-Century: Iron as Architecture or Engineering?/ Early Victorian England: Glass Palaces and the Architecture of the Great Expositions [Reading: Benevolo, chapter 4 “Engineering and Architecture in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” pp. 96—124 (coursepak); Bergdoll, 207-14; 219-21.] Nov. 3: The Railroad Station/ The Industrial City and Utopian Critics [Reading: Benevolo, ch. 5, “The Industrial Town and its Critics,” pp. 127--147 and ch. 6, “Attempts at Reforming the Industrial Town from Owen to Morris,” pp. 148—170; Bergdoll, 173-74] Nov. 8: SECOND TEST CA. 1855 – 1875: THE SECOND EMPIRE IN FRANCE/VICTORIAN ERA IN THE USA Nov. 10: Paris, City of Light Reading: Donald Olsen, ch. 4 "The New Paris," in The City as Work of Art, pp. 35-57; Bergdoll, 236-38; 241-57 Nov. 15: Viollet-le-Duc and Gothic Rationalism Reading: Sir John Summerson, "Viollet-le-Duc and the Rational Point of View" from Heavenly Mansions, ch. 6, pp. 135—158 (coursepak); Bergdoll, 224-32 Nov. 12: Ruskin or Butterfield? Reading: Sir John Summerson, "William Butterfield, or the Glory of Ugliness" from Heavenly Mansions, ch. 7, pp. 159—176 (coursepak); Bergdoll, 215-18 NOV. 17: VISIT TO WATKINSON LIBRARY TO SEE CADY COLLECTION PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES Nov. 22: The Arts and Crafts Movement/The Aesthetic Movement in England Reading: Wendy Kaplan, “The Arts and Crafts Movement: Sources and Early Ideals” (coursepak); Benevolo, pp. 170-187 (coursepak), “John Ruskin and William Morris” (coursepak); Bergdoll, 221-41 Nov. 22: Short assignments due Nov. 29: The Stick Style, the Shingle Style, and the Colonial Revival Vincent Scully, ch. 1, "The Shingle Style Reviewed: H. H. Richardson and the English 'Queen Anne,'" in The Shingle Style, pp. 1--18 (coursepak) Dec. 1: The Richardsonian Romanesque Reading: James O'Gorman, Three American Architects, ch. 1-2, “Disciplining the Picturesque” and “Buildings for City and Suburb” pp. 9-67 (coursepak) Dec. 6: The Chicago School Reading: Benevolo, ch. 8, pp. 219--250, “The Chicago School and the American Avant-Garde” (coursepak) CA. 1900: NOSTALGIA AND ANTICIPATION Dec. 8: The American Renaissance in the United States/The Art Nouveau Reading for United States: Richard Guy Wilson, ch. 6 "Architecture and the Reinterpretation of the Past in the American Renaissance,” (coursepak); and Zeynep Celik, “Adler and Sullivan at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago,” (coursepak) Reading (for Art Nouveau): Alistair Duncan, “The Art Nouveau” in (coursepak); Bergdoll, 257- 61; 269-79 FINAL PROJECT DUE Dec. 12 by 4:00 pm Dec. 15 (Thursday) (9:00am) THIRD AND LAST TEST .
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