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Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: MODERN ARCHITECTURE Spring Quarter 2019 M-W-F: 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 a.m.; 220 Kane Hall Instructor: Professor Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Course Description and Guide This course presents a survey of architecture from 1750 to the present (generally, but not exclusively, in Europe and North America). Emphasis is placed on the development of the architecture of this period including significant buildings and projects, important theories and critical writings. This Course Guide lecture-by-lecture summaries of material that will be covered in class. (For access to images, see the Course Syllabus.) Class members are responsible for material in Ingersoll, World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History Second Edition (2019), approximately pages 593-974, with a focus on the specific pages in the daily assignments in this guide. (For class members who have the older edition, Ingersoll and Kostof, World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History (2013), This course covers approximately pages 585-956, with a focus on the specific pages in the daily assignments in this guide.) Class members are also responsible for material in William J.R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900 Third Edition (New York, 1996), selected pages as indicated on daily lists included herein. Additional references are provided for those who seek additional information, including pages in the textbook by Trachtenberg and Hyman, Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernism/The Western Tradition, Second Edition (New York, 2002), that was required in this class in 2013 and 2014. Class members will be held fully responsible for knowing individual "key works" identified on each daily slide list included herein. Class members are also responsible for knowing major theoretical developments and In addition, class members should be generally familiar with additional works that may be shown in class. Class members should note that slide lists included herein are tentative and may be updated and reissued in class. Those updates will include changes to the material listed in this course summary. 2 Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: MODERN ARCHITECTURE TENTATIVE 2019 SCHEDULE (Subject to Change) 01 April Lecture #1: Introduction; the problem of "Modern Architecture" 03 April Lecture #2: The Emergence of Neoclassicism 05 April Lecture #3: The French Enlightenment; Boullee and Ledoux 08 April Lecture #4: Variations on Neoclassicism; Soane, Schinkel 10 April Lecture #5: Romanticism and the early Gothic Revival 12 April Lecture #6: The Spread and Breakdown of Neoclassicism 15 April Lecture #7: “In What Style Shall We Build?” QUIZ 17 April Lecture #8: H. H. Richardson 19 April Lecture #9: New Domestic Architecture: England and America 22 April Lecture #10: 19th Century Technological Developments 24 April Lecture #11: The Tall Building; Chicago and elsewhere 26 April Lecture #12: The Eclectic Era, America and Elsewhere, 1880-1925 29 April Lecture #13: Frank Lloyd Wright to 1914 01 May IN-CLASS MID-TERM EXAM 03 May Lecture #14: Art Nouveau: Horta and Guimard; Mackintosh; Gaudi 06 May Lecture #15: Vienna: The “Testing Ground of Modernism” 08 May Lecture #16: Continental Directions, 1900-1914 10 May Lecture #17: A New Aesthetic: Futurism, de Stijl, Constructivism TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM DUE 13 May Lecture #18: The Triumph of Neue Sachlichkeit, The Bauhaus 15 May Lecture #19: Searching for Modernism: Mies, LeCorbusier 17 May Lecture #20: The Modern Movement Coalesces 20 May Lecture #21: From Tradition to Modernity 22 May Lecture #22: Spread of Modernism, 1920s to 1940s 24 May Lecture #23: Modernism Comes to America, 1920 to 1942 QUIZ 27 May HOLIDAY: NO CLASS 29 May Lecture #24: The Post-War Period: Modernism and Corporate America 31 May Lecture #25: The Variety of Post-War Modernism 03 June Lecture #26: The Problem of Monumentality, 1945-1975 05 June Lecture #27: The Search for Meaning: Postmodernism and Alternatives 07 June Lecture #28: Modernism, Technology, Place 10-14 June FINALS WEEK: FINAL EXAM as scheduled by University of Washington Wednesday 12 June, 2:30 to 4:20 p.m. [verify at: https://www.washington.edu/students/reg/S2019exam.html] 3 Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: Week #1: 1 April - 5 April 2019 1 April Lecture #1: Introduction; the problem of "Modern Architecture" The meanings and terms such as modern architecture, modernism, the Modern Movement, revivalism, eclecticism, and so forth. Consideration of the characteristics of the modern period: a) technology and industrialization; b) patronage and professionalism; c) mass culture and related political movements; d) imperialism and colonialism. The problem of historical revisionism in considering the architecture of the modern period. The Modern Movement and "the end of history." Limits of the course material--the problem of selecting what to include. Directions in 18th and 19th century architecture: the Rational tradition in France; the Picturesque tradition in England. Issue and terms: "modern architecture"; "modernism"; "Modern Movement" "eclecticism"; "revivalism" Impacts technology and industrialization patronage and professionalism mass culture and politics imperialism and colonialism Historiographic problems the Modern Movement and the "end of history" revisionism and new scholarship ________ Reading: Ingersoll, World Architecture (2nd. ed.), 593-595, 606. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900 (3rd ed.), 21-31. [Ingersoll/Kostof, World Architecture (1st ed., 2013), 585-586, 598.] Some Suggested Supplemental Reading: Trachtenberg, Architecture (2nd ed.), 375-377. Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Ch. 1 Kostof, Spiro, History of Architecture, 547-549 Colquhoun, Alan, Modern Architecture, 9-11. Bergdoll, Barry, European Architecture, 1750-1890, 1-7 Perez-Gomez, Alberto, Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science 4 Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: Week #1 (continued) 3 April Lecture #2: The Emergence of Neoclassicism The nature of the Enlightenment; its critical impact on architecture. The search for sources of architectural design. The impact of new discoveries about antiquity. The move towards simplification of geometry and simplified formal order. Neoclassicism in England and France. The impact of Laugier's Essai sur l'architecture (1753). KEY WORKS: Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) Chiswick House, London, 1725-29 Ange-Jacques Gabriel Petit Trianon, Versailles, 1761-1768 Jacques Germain Soufflot St. Genevieve, Paris, 1757-1790 (secularized as Pantheon, 1791) WORKS OF THE PERIOD: England: Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) (1694-1753) Chiswick House, nr. London, 1725 William Kent (1685-1748) and Lord Burlington Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 1734- John Wood, the elder (1704-1754) Circus, Bath, 1754-64 John Wood, the younger (1728-1781) Royal Crescent, Bath, 1767- James Stuart (1713-1788), Nicholas Revett (1720-1804) Antiquities of Athens, 1762, 1789,…1816 5 Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: Week #1 (continued) 3 April Lecture #2: The emergence of Neoclassicism (continued) France: Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713-1769) Essai sur L'Architecture, 1753 Julien-David LeRoy (1724-1803) Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, 1758 Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1699-1782) Petit Trianon, Versailles, 1761-1768 Marie Joseph Peyre (1730-1785) Charles de Wailly (1730-1798) Théâtre Français, Paris, 1762-1782 (later: Théâtre de l'Odeon, Théâtre de France) Jacques Germain Soufflot (1713-1780) Ste.-Geneviève, Paris, 1757-1790 (secularized as Panthéon, 1791) ________ Reading: Ingersoll, World Architecture (2nd. ed.), 593-594, 606-617. [Ingersoll/Kostof, World Architecture (1st ed., 2013), 594-595, 598-609.] Suggested Supplemental Reading: Trachtenberg, Architecture (2nd ed.), 375-386, 390-398. Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Pt. 1, Ch. 1 Bergdoll, Barry, European Architecture, 1750-1890, 8-61. Braham, Allan, The Architecture of the French Enlightenment Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Architecture: 19th and 20th Centuries, Ch. 1 Middleton, R., and Watkin, D., Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture, Ch. 1-4 Rykwert, Joseph, The First Moderns Summerson, John, Architecture of the Eighteenth Century Harris, John, The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick (in addition there are many books on Soufflot) 6 Department of Architecture University of Washington ARCH 352: Week #1 (continued) 5 April Lecture #3: The French Enlightenment; Boullee and Ledoux French rationalism and architecture. Movement toward radical simplification of form. Visionary architecture by Boullee and Ledoux. Geometric symbolism and the possibility of an "architecture parlante." KEY WORKS: Étienne-Louis Boullée National Library (also known as Royal Library) project, 1785 Cenotaph for Isaac Newton, 1784 Claude-Nicholas Ledoux Barrieres de Paris, 1784-1787 Barriere de la Villette Saltworks at Chaux, betw. Arc and Senans, 1773, 1775-1779 Ideal city of Chaux projects WORKS OF THE PERIOD: Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) Projects, 1780-1799 National Library project, Paris, 1785 City Gate, Fort Museum to contain statues of famous men Pyramidal Cenotaph, Conical Cenotaph Cenotaph for Isaac Newton, 1784 Claude-Nicholas Ledoux (1735-1806) Maison de (house of) Mlle. Guimard, near Paris, 1770-1772 Théâtre de Besançon, Besançon, 1775 Saltworks at Chaux, betw. Arc and Senans, 1773, 1775-1779 Barrières de Paris, 1784-1787 Barrière de la Villette Barrière de Monceau