Class code ARTH-UA 9650

Name: Silvia Catitti Instructor Details NYUHome E.mail Address: [email protected] Office Hours: by appointment: Tuesday, before or after class + Thursday 12.30pm-2.00pm Villa Ulivi Office Location: Quartiere di S. Giovanni Villa Ulivi Office Extension: 055 5007 318

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Semester: Spring 2013 Class Details Full Title of Course: Architecture in : Field Study Meeting Days and Times: Tuesday, 3:00pm-5:45pm Classroom Location: Ensemble Room

N/A Prerequisites

Florence will be our classroom. Students learn how to ‘read’ and interpret the city by analyzing the Class Description architecture and the outdoor spaces that the buildings define. We adopt the approach of art history, architectural history, and urban planning to study the buildings and monuments of Florence from antiquity to the present. On site, students consider buildings in context, and learn how to describe the architectural language used by architects over the centuries. Students learn about the building materials and technologies. They learn how to identify the typology and dynamics of buildings, monuments, and outdoor spaces, and their transformations (in form and function). They experience the coexistence of private and sacred in religious buildings, and of private and public in both residential and civic buildings.

On completion of this course, students should: Desired Outcomes • Have improved their ability to think critically, engage in complex reasoning and express their thoughts clearly through their written work. • Have improved their understanding of the methodologies of art history, and history of architecture and urban planning. • Have mastered a basic understanding of how to research questions in art history, architectural history, and urban planning . • Recognize works by the principal protagonists of architecture and urban design in Florence, and understand why they are significant for the history and transformation of Florence.

Attendance and Participation: 15% Assessment Midterm Exam (approximately 4-5 handwritten pages): 20%

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Components Final Exam (approximately 4-5 handwritten pages): 20% Reading Assignment and Oral Presentation/Leading the Class Discussion (10 minutes): 15% Term Paper (approximately 8-12 typewritten pages): 30%

Failure to submit or fulfill any required course component results in failure of the class.

Attendance and Participation: Students are required to actively participate in class discussions.

Midterm and Final Exams: Part one (60% of grade): Short answers. Students respond to 12 out of 15 questions (the professor will grade the 12 replies marked by the student). Full sentences are not required, bullet points can be used. Part two (40% of grade): one short essay, at least 2 pages (about 500 words). Students choose one topic from a list of titles provided by the professor. The Final Exam is not cumulative. Essays must feature full sentences: Introduction, development, conclusion. Pencil is not allowed. Students are expected to cite relevant assigned readings. Both the Midterm and Final are carefully timed: if you have a recognized learning disability for which you are entitled to extra time, please contact the Office of Academic Support immediately, to insure that we can make proper arrangements for testing.

Reading Assignment and Oral Presentation/Leading the Class Discussion: Daily readings are due for all students. They must be done in advance. Every of class one (or more) student(/s) volunteers in engaging the class in the discussion of the reading/s due for that day. The oral presentation revolves around the critical points addressed by the assigned reading (see below). Each volunteer sends his/her comments in advance to the professor. In one or two sentences each volunteer explores the following four points: 1. the education/background of the author of the reading and his/her perspective (on line sources: http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org; http://www.biblio.com/authors.php); 2. the key idea of the reading (not a summary of the whole reading); 3. one idea the student learnt from the reading; 4. one point the student did not understand or disagrees with. The student who volunteeres submits his/her replies via e-mail (to [email protected]) by 9 pm the Saturday before the due date. Delays in submitting comments will lower the student’s grade in the category “Reading Assignment and Oral Presentation/…”.

Term Paper: Students in teams of two choose to work on a topic from a list provided by the professor. Students write approximately 8-12 typewritten pages (plus end notes, bibliography, and illustrations). The format of the term paper and the expectations are discussed on Session 4. Topics, teams, tentative title, and a brief outline (at least 120 words), are due on Session 6. A more articulate outline (250 words) and a bibliography are due on Session 10. All term papers are due on Session 13. These deadlines are mandatory. Delays in submitting the material will lower the student’s grade in the category “Term paper”. These deadlines provide an opportunity to make corrections or adjustments to the students’ research. The term paper should be a well-organized essay in defense of a thesis/statement. It must include references to all sources used, regardless of whether they were also assigned readings from this syllabus or electronic resources. Failure to properly cite sources constitutes plagiarism (see below); if students are uncertain as to how to properly cite sources, please see the instructor during office hours or contact her via e.mail. Sources for the research may be found among those listed on this syllabus, in the Course Reader, or any other relevant source available in the Villa Ulivi Library, the British Institute Library, Library of the Dutch Institute for Art History, and the Library of the Center for Renaissance Studies at . Authorized on-line resources: - E.BOOKS: http://books.google.com; http://archive.org; or various other data bases of e-books, accessible for free or through the portal of your University; - ARTICLES: If you are looking for articles, many specialized Magazines are now available also on-line. You can try: www.jstor.org; http://findarticles.com; http://scholar.google.it

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Other on-line sources must be previously approved by the instructor. The bibliography must be formulated with care. Students need to make a distinction between articles, essays, and book chapters. This course adopts the Chicago style. Please check on line: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Amici-degli- Museum Cards All students at NYU Florence receive Amici-degli-Uffizi Museum Cards. These cards are invaluable resources both in the classroom and outside. Students are required to bring their Museum Cards with them to all site visits, regardless of whether or not the sites are among those for which the cards provide free access.

Assessment Grade A: The student’s work demonstrates an understanding of the subject that goes beyond Expectations assigned course readings. The student writes essays/exam questions that are an original synthesis of source materials, demonstrating the ability to evaluate source material critically. Written

arguments are clear, well-organized and well-presented; oral presentations are concise, incisive and supplemented by appropriate visual materials. The student has distinguished himself/herself throughout the course of the semester for his/her contributions to class discussion.

Grade B: The student’s work shows a clear understanding of assigned readings and materials covered in class. The student writes clear, well-organized and well-presented essays/exam questions; oral presentations are concise, incisive and supplemented by appropriate visual materials. The student is prepared in class and asks relevant questions.

Grade C: The student’s work shows a basic understanding of the subject treated in assigned readings and covered in class. However, written and/or oral work is deficient in one or more of the following areas: clarity, organization or content. The student’s work is generally in need of improvement

Grade D: The student’s work shows occasional understanding of the subject treated in assigned readings and covered in class. Written and/or oral work is deficient in one of more of the follow areas: clarity, organization or content. The student does not participate in class discussion and has not frequented the instructor’s office hours.

Grade F: The student’s work does not demonstrate understanding of the subject treated in assigned readings and covered in class. Written and/or oral work are either insufficient or are not submitted. The student appears unprepared in class and has not frequented the instructor’s office hours.

A=94-100 Grade conversion A-=90-93 B+=87-89 B=84-86 B-=80-83 C+=77-79 C=74-76 C-=70-73 D+=67-69 D=65-66 F=below 65

Please refer to Assessment Expectations and the policy on late submission of work

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Grading Policy

Attendance: Attendance Policy Attendance is expected and required of all students. Any absences will negatively impact upon your course grade

Absences: In case of absence, regardless of the reason, the student is responsible for completing missed assignments, getting notes and making up missed work in a timely manner based upon a schedule that is mutually agreed upon between the faculty member and the student

Absence Due to Illness ● If you are sick, please see a doctor (contact the OSL for information). ● Only a medical certificate from a local medical professional will be accepted to justify an absence due to illness. ● Within 24 hours of your return to class you must bring this note to the Office of Academic Support, located on the ground floor of Villa Ulivi. We will review the medical certificate and we will notify your faculty via e.mail about your justified absence due to illness. ● Absences for short term illness without a medical certificate are not justified and count as unjustified absences. We will not accept a student e.mail or telephone call regarding an absence due to illness. We will not notify your faculty about these absences. ● The Office of Student Life, when assisting you in cases of severe or extended illness, will coordinate with the Office of Academic Support to properly record your absences.

Due to Religious Observance • Students observing a religious holiday during regularly scheduled class time are entitled to miss class without any penalty to their grade. This is for the holiday only and does not include the days of travel that may come before and/or after the holiday. ● Students must notify their professor and the Office of Academic Support in writing via e.mail one week in advance before being absent for this purpose.

Due to a class conflict with a program sponsored lecture, event, or activity ● All students are entitled to miss one class period without any penalty to their grade in order to attend a lecture, event or activity that is sponsored by NYU Florence or La Pietra Dialogues, Acton Miscellany or the Graduate Lecture series. ● Students must notify their professor and the Office of Academic Support in writing via e.mail one week in advance before being absent for this purpose.

Late Submission of Work ● All course work must be submitted on time, in class on the date specified on the syllabus. ● To request an extension on a deadline for an assignment, students must speak to the professor one week prior to the due date. ● To receive an incomplete for a course at the end of the semester, two weeks before final exams, both the student and the faculty member must meet with the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs to review the request and if granted, they must both sign an Incomplete Contract detailing the terms for completing missing coursework.

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Plagiarism Policy PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN ANY FORM: The presentation of another person’s words, ideas, judgment, images or data as though they were your own, whether intentionally or unintentionally, constitutes an act of plagiarism.

In the event of suspected or confirmed cases of plagiarism, the faculty member will consult first with the Assistant Director for Academic Affairs as definitions and procedures vary from school to school. Please consult the “Academic Guidelines for Success” distributed on your USB key at Check-in and on the NYU Florence Global Wiki.

For a detailed description of some possible forms of plagiarism and cheating please consult the Community Compact that you signed at Orientation, a copy of which is on the above mentioned Wiki and USB key.

Assigned readings are to be found in the following texts, available for purchase for this course at Required Text(s) the Paperback Exchange, via delle Oche 4/r, Florence.

• Zucconi, Guido, Florence: An Architectural Guide, with an essay by Pietro Ruschi, transl. by Antony Shugaar. Verona, 2007 [hereafter: “Zucconi”] • Augé, Marc, Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. by John Howe, London-New York, 2009 [hereafter: “Augé”] • Dezzi Bardeschi, Marco, ed., Florence: Architecture City Landscape. Rome, 2006 [hereafter: “DezziB”]

Selected thematic readings: students can make their own photocopies (a Master Copy is in Villa Ulivi Library,) download a pdf from the Course Website [pdf], consult on-line the sources available on ezproxy.library.nyu.edu [on-L], or consult the sources available in Villa Ulivi Library [VUL].

The following texts, available in the Villa Ulivi Library, contain other assigned readings or Supplemental Texts(s) are recommended as extra resources and for presentation and term paper research: (not required to purchase, as copies Art / Architectural / Urban : are in NYU-Library or • Crum, Roger J.; Paoletti, John T., eds., Renaissance Florence: A Social History. New York- available on line) Cambridge, 2006 [hereafter: “Crum-Paoletti”] [VUL] • Bini, Marco; Cresti, Carlo, eds., Firenze: Architectural Guide. Turin, 1998 [hereafter “Bini- Cresti”] [VUL] • Fei, Silvano; Gobbi Sica, Grazia; and Sica, Paolo, Florence: An Outline of Urban History. Florence, 1995 [hereafter “Outline”] [VUL] • Goldthwaite, Richard A., The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History. Baltimore-London, 1982 [hereafter “Goldthwaite”] [VUL] • Goy, Richard, Florence: The City and its Architecture. London-New York, 2002 [hereafter “Goy”] [VUL] • Lazzaro, Claudia, The Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-century Central , with photographs by Ralph Lieberman. New Haven, 1990 [hereafter “Lazzaro”] [VUL] • Lotz, Wolfgang, Studies in Italian . Cambridge-London, 1977 [VUL] • Trachtenberg, Marvin, Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence. New York, 1997 [hereafter “Trachtenberg”] [VUL] • Trexler, Richard C., Public Life in Renaissance Florence. Ithaca, 1991 [VUL] • Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 2 vols., trans. by Gaston du C. de Vere; intro. and notes by Ekserdjian. London, 1996 [VUL]

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The Idea/Image of Florence: • Acton, Harold, Memoirs of an Aesthete. London, 1987 [VUL] • Foster, E.M., A Room with a View. New York, 1995 [VUL] • Holler , Anne, Florence Walks. New York, 1983 [VUL] [hereafter “Holler”] • Lasansky, D. Medina, The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy. University Park, 2004 [hereafter “Lasansky”] [VUL] • Ruskin, John, Selected writings, ed. by Dinah Birch. Oxford-New York, 2004 [VUL] • Manetti, Renzo; Morolli, Gabriele, eds., Giuseppe Poggi e Firenze: Disegni di Architetture e Città, exhibition catalogue. Florence, 1989

Typology, Architectural / Urban Transformations: • Caniggia, Gianfranco; Maffei, Gian Luigi, Interpreting Basic Building, transl. by Susan Jane Fraser. Florence, 2001 [hereafter: “Caniggia-Maffei”] [pdf] • Canniffe, Eamonn, The Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian Square. Abingdon, 2008 [hereafter: “Canniffe”] [on-L] • Giovannini, Paolo, “The Great Urban Transformations of The City of Florence: From Compactness to Sprawl”, in Geneviève Dubois-Taine ed., European Cities. Insights on Outskirts: From Helsinki to Nicosia. Eleven Case Studies and Synthesis. Brussels, 2004, pp. 119-214 • Perrone, Camilla; Manella, Gabriele; Tripodi, Lorenzo, eds., Everyday Life in the Segmented City (Research in Urban Sociology, 11). Bradford, 2011 [hereafter: “Segmented City”] [on-L] • Gehl, Jan, Cities for People. Washington, DC, 2010 [hereafter: “Gehl”] [VUL] • Ingersoll, Richard, Sprawltown: Looking for the City on its Edges. Princeton, 2006 [hereafter: “Ingersoll”] [on-L]

Manuals: • Hopkins, Owen, Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon. London, 2012 [VUL] • Ghirardo, Diane, Modern Architectures in History: Italy. London, 2003 [VUL] • Murray, Peter, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance. London, 1969 [VUL] rd • Paoletti, John T.; Radke, Gary M., Art in Renaissance Italy. 3 ed. London, 2006 [VUL]

Monograhs: nd • Ackerman, James S., The Architecture of Michelangelo, 2 ed. Chicago, 1986 [VUL] • Herselle Krinsky, Carol, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, and Meaning. Mineola, 1985 [VUL]

Architectural Theory: • Alberti, Leon Battista, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, transl. by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge, 1997 [VUL] • Rossi, Aldo, The Architecture of the City, transl. by Lawernce Venuti. Cambridge-London, 1982 [VUL]

The careful use of internet resources is encouraged and a list of recommended websites will be Internet Research given. Failure to cite internet and other non-traditional media sources in your written work Guidelines constitutes plagiarism.

N/A Additional Required Equipment

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-- Textbooks: Introduction ● Zucconi, pp. 9-21 [VUL+pdf] Session 1 -- Thematic reading, group 1: How to look at Florence architecture. Florence ● 01, Goldthwaite, pp. 67-98 (“The Reasons for Building: Needs and Taste”) [VUL+pdf] February 5 by Neighborhood. Scholars, Architects, Painters, -- Thematic reading, group 2: Chroniclers, Film makers. Excerpts from James ● 02, Gehl, pp. 198-211 (“Life, Space, Buildings – In That Ivory’s A Room with a View, and from the Order”) [VUL+pdf] documentaries: Per Firenze, by Franco Zeffirelli -- Recommended readings: (on the 1966 Florence Flood), and The Rape of ● Outline, pp. 9-21 (“From the Roman Foundation to the Europa by Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Medieval Commune”) [VUL] Newnham (on the Nazi bombings).

Location: Ensemble Room

-- Textbooks: The Heart of the City ● DezziB, pp. 6-21 (“Architecture and the City: Florence 1865- Session 2 2005”) Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Florence. ● Zucconi, #6 (“Ruins of the Church of Santa Reparata”), #12 February 12 Politics, Religion, and Commerce. The Roman (“Baptistery of San Giovanni”), #36 (“Cathedral, or Church of Castrum and the first circuit of City Walls. Santa Maria del Fiore”), #37 (“Belltower of the Cathedral, or Today’s historic city center, defined by the City Giotto’s Belltower”), #38 (“Loggia of Bigallo”), #51 Government as “Natural Shopping Center.” (“, or Church of San Michele in Orto”), #55 (“Loggia della Signoria, or ”), #62 (“Dome of the Site Visit: Cathedral”), #191 (“Façade of the Church of Santa Maria del Palace of the Arte dei Giudici & Notai Fiore”), #199 (“Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, now Piazza della Repubblica”) [VUL+pdf] (Restaurant/Museum), Via del Proconsolo, -- Thematic reading, group 1: Museum, , Loggia ● 03, Lasansky, pp. 19-36 (“A Love Affair with Tuscany”) della Signoria, Church of Orsanmichele, Via dei [VUL+pdf] Calzaiuoli, Piazza della Repubblica, Via Roma, -- Thematic reading, group 2: Church of San Giovanni (Baptistery), Church of ● 04, Nicholas Eckstein, (“Neighborhood as Microcosm”), in Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral), Museum of Crum-Paoletti, pp. 219-239, 546-550 [VUL+pdf] the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore -- Recommended readings: ● Bini-Cresti, #6 (“Ex-Cathedral of Santa Reparata”), #8 (“Baptistry of San Giovanni”), #35 (“The Cathedral of Florence”), #36 (“The Campanile”), #153 (“Façade of Santa Maria del Fiore”), #154 (“Arch in the Square, Hotel Savoy and the Gambrinus Arcades”) [VUL] ● Canniffe, pp. 37-52 (“Christianity: The Development of New Urban Forms”), 53-71 (“The Middle Ages: From the City of God to the City of Men”), 169-183 (“Risorgimento: The Formation of a National Urban Space”) [on-L] ● Goy, pp. 88-121 (“Nuclei of Power: The Church”), 181-185 (“The Social Networks: The Arti”), 204-205 (“Orsanmichele”) [VUL] ● Outline, pp. 23-39 (“From the Year 1000 to the Affirmation of the Guilds”) [VUL]

-- Textbooks: and its Neighborhood ● DezziB, pp. 22-51 (“Explosion of the ‘Giubbe Rosse’ Avant- Session 3 Garde”) The settling of the Mendicant Orders at the ● Zucconi, #39 (“Church and Convent of Santa Maria February 19 edge of the city in the 13th century: I. The Novella”), #50 (“”), #56 (“Former Church of Dominican basilica and convent of Santa Maria San Pancrazio [Rucellai Chapel and Marino Marini Museum]”), Novella. Private patronage and public décor: the #83 (“Palazzo and ”), #85 (“Façade of the Church addition of private chapels to Medieval of Santa Maria Novella”), #212 (“Railroad Station of Santa Maria churches in the 14th and 15th centuries. Row Novella”), #233 (“Bus Terminal”) [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 1:

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th Houses, In-line Houses, and the 15 century ● 05, Gehl, pp. 1-29 (“The Human Dimension”) [VUL+pdf] revolution in patrician residential typology: the -- Thematic reading, group 2: private Palace. 20th century Rationalist railway ● 06, Jonathan Katz Nelson, (“Memorial Chapels in Station: a new way of accessing and perceiving Churches: The Privatization and Transformation of Sacred Florence. Tenement buildings from the 1930s Spaces”), in Crum-Paoletti, pp. 353-375, 582-584 [VUL+pdf] surrounding the railway Station. -- Recommended readings: ● Bini-Cresti, #33 (“Santa Maria Novella”), #54 (“Rucellai Site Visit: Palace, Loggia and Chapel”), #167 “Machinery Cabin at Santa Santa Maria Novella train Station, Residential Maria Novella Train Station”), #169 (“Concourse and Presidential architecture from the 1930s defining the piazza Palace at Santa Maria Novella Train Station”) [VUL] surrounding the Station, Church of Santa Maria ● Caniggia-Maffei, pp. 75-117 (“Buildings as Indivuation of Novella, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Marino Building Type”) [pdf] Marini Museum (ex-Church of San Pancrazio), ● Canniffe, 185-204 (“Fascism: The Urban Language of Rucellai Palace and Loggia, Row houses on Via Autoritharianism”) [on-L] della Vigna Nuova, Strozzi Palace, Davanzati ● Goy, pp. 195-202 (“Great Medieval Conventual Churches”), Museum 252-267 (“The Florentine Palazzi”), 226-227 (“Façade of Santa Maria Novella”), 299-302 (“Santa Maria Novella Train Station”) [VUL] ● Holler, pp. 132-136 (on Rucellai Palace) [VUL]

-- Textbooks: San Lorenzo: A Medici Neighborhood ● Zucconi, #64 (“, or the Foundling Session 4 Hospital”), #65 (“Church of San Lorenzo”), #67 (“Sagrestia A prototype for the Palace typology: Palazzo Vecchia of San Lorenzo”), #74 (“Palace of Cosimo de’ Medici”), February 26 Medici. Control over the city through #76 (“Church and Convent of San Marco”), #78 (“Church and architectural patronage: the Medici as private Convent of the Santissima Annunziata”), #109 (“Sagrestia Nuova citizens and the 15th-century reconstruction of of San Lorenzo”), #111 (“Biblioteca Laurenziana, or Laurenziana the church of San Lorenzo. Medici tombs: Old Library”), #140 (“Renovation of the Church of the Santissima and New Sacristies of San Lorenzo. Re- Annunziata”), #144 (“Chapel of the Princeps at San Lorenzo”), conquering the Florentines through a cultural #158 (“Enlargement of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi”), #190 enterprise: Pope Clement VII Medici and the (“Covered Marketplace of San Lorenzo”) [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 1: first public Library of the modern Era. Florence ● 07, Canniffe, pp. 37-52 (“Early Renaissance: Perspective, capital of the Savoy Kingdom: the Iron-and-glass Representation, and the Ideal”) [on-L] architecture of San Lorenzo Market. -- Thematic reading, group 2: ● 08, Ingersoll, pp. 23-70 (“Postcard city: The Symmetry Site Visit: Between Tourism and Terrorism”) [on-L] Medici Palace, Church of San Lorenzo, Old -- Recommended readings: Sacristy, , New Sacristy, San ● Bini-Cresti, pp. 63-65 (“From Brunelleschi to Lorenzo Market, Convent and Library of San Michelangelo”), #45 (“Loggia of the Foundling Hospital”), #47 Marco, Piazza and Church of Santissima (“Sacristy and Church of San Lorenzo”), #50 (“Convent of San Annunziata, Foundling Hospital, University of Marco”), #51 (“Palazzo Medici”), #56 (“Choir of the Santissima Florence Annunziata”), #73 (“Façade of an Lorenzo”), #74 (“New Sacristy of San Lorenzo”), #75 (“Medici-Laurentian Library”), #95 Explanation of Term Paper Project (“Palazzo Grifoni”), #101 (“Santissima Annunziata: Seventeenth century Additions”), #125 (“Campanile of the Church of San Lorenzo”), #129 (“Piazza San Marco”), #149 (“San Lorenzo Market”) [VUL] ● Canniffe, pp. 95-112 (“High Renaissance: The modern city all’antica”) [on-L] ● Goldthwaite, pp. 16-22 (“The Renaissance City”) [VUL] ● Goy, pp. 48-61 (“Florence and the Medici”), 206-208 (“San Lorenzo”), 220-222 (“San Marco”), 222-226 (“Ss. Annunziata”), 232-238 (“Michelangelo at San Lorenzo”), 240- 243 (“Princes’ Chapels”) [VUL] ● Holler, pp. 115-120 (on Central Market) [VUL] ● Outline, pp. 71-82 (“The End of the Republic Approaches”)

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[VUL] -- Textbooks: Under the Monarchy, Renaissance and ● Zucconi, #34 (“”), #47 (“”), Session 5 Modern #66 (“Barbadori Chapel in the Church of Santa Felicita”), #87 (“”), #113 (“”), #116 March 5 Granducal architecture and public spaces. (“Enlargement of Palazzo Vecchio”), #118 (“Uffizi”), #119 Politics, Bureaucracy, Commerce: Uffizi and (“Vasari’s Corridor”), #120 (“Enlargement of Palazzo Pitti”), Loggia del Porcellino. Public persona and #121 (“”), #148 (“Enlargement of Pitti Palace”), connection with nature: 15th-century #169 (“Interior of the Church of Santa Felicita”), #179 remodeling of the residential quarters in (“Kaffeehaus in Boboli Gardens”), #180 (“Palatine Gallery of Pitti Palazzo Vecchio; Pitti Palace & Boboli Gardens. Palace”), #189 (“Royal Suite of Apartments in the Pitti Palace”), Florence of the Savoy Kings and the bombing of #216 (“Buildings along the Arno near the Ponte Vecchio”) Florence in WWII. [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 1: Site visit: ● 09, Trachtenberg, pp. 87-147 (“The Piazza della Signoria”) [VUL+pdf] Loggia of the New Market, Palazzo Vecchio and -- Thematic reading, group 2: Piazza della Signoria, Uffizi, Ponte Vecchio, Post- ● 10, Stephen J. Milner, (“The Florentine Piazza della WWII reconstructions of residential buildings Signoria as Practiced Place”), in Crum-Paoletti, pp. 83-103, and the water front, , Church of 497-505 [VUL+pdf] Santa Felicita, Via Guicciardini, Pitti Palace & -- Recommended readings: Boboli Gardens ● Bini-Cresti, #26 (“Ponte Vecchio”), #38 (“Palazzo

Vecchio”), #40 (“Loggia della Signoria”), #86 (“The Uffizi, Vasari’s Corridor”), #87 (“Palazzo Vecchio: Vasari’s Interventions”), #89 (“Palazzo Pitti’s Courtyard and the Big Grotto in the Boboli Gardens”), #99 (“Loggia di Mercato Nuovo”), #105 (“Enlargements to Palazzo Pitti”), #174 (“Rebuilding the Area around Ponte Vecchio”), #176 (“Block for Housing and Shops”) [VUL] ● Canniffe, pp. 113-132 (“: The Theatre of the City”), 207-219 (“Neo-Realism: Urban Form and La Dolce Vita”) [on-L] ● Goy, pp. 63-68 (“Florence and the Medici”), 122-159 (“Nuclei of Power: The Governments of Florence”) [VUL] ● Goldthwaite, pp. 23-26 (“The Ducal Presence”) [VUL] ● Lazzaro, pp. 191-214 (“The Source for Florence Waters in the Boboli Garden”) [VUL] ● Outline, pp. 83-103 (“Florence and Tuscany... the First Medici Principate”) [VUL]

-- Textbooks: Mid-Term Review ● DezziB, pp. 172-183 (“For the Future of Florence”) Session 6 -- Recommended readings: Review of the main concepts covered in the first ● Outline, pp. 203-127 (“Chronology”) March 12 half of the semester. Discussion of the readings.

Location: Ensemble Room

1st Deadline of Term Paper: Submit Topic/Team/Tentative Title + Outline 1

None Midterm Exam Session 7

Location: Ensemble Room March 19 --Textbooks:

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Ognissanti and Porta al Prato ● Zucconi, #29 (“Gate of Prato”), #143 (“Church of Session 8 Ognissanti”), #177 (“Park of the Cascine”), #178 (“Royal Entering Florence from North: Porta al Prato Mansion at the Cascine”), #208 (“Vichi Home and Gallery”), April 2 and Via il Prato. A European horizon in urban #218 (“Ponte Vespucci”) [VUL+pdf] planning: the 19th-century reconfiguration of -- Thematic reading, group 1: the city. The expansion of the city towards ● 11, Lasansky, pp. 208-214 (“Accelerating Accessibility: North. The demolition of the 14th-century city Highways, Busses, and Trains”) [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 2: walls: the ring of boulevards (the Viali). River ● 12, Ingersoll, pp. 71-98 (“Jump-cut Urbanism: Cinema, the banks and water front: the new highways along Automobile...”) [on-L] the river (the Lungarni). A public park: Le -- Recommended readings: Cascine. A train Station (Stazione Leopolda). A ● Bini-Cresti, #109 (“Ongissanti”), #132 (“Grand-Ducal Farm contemporary Concert Hall: Parco della Musica. of the Cascine”), p. 198 (“The Fleeting Transgression of Art Nouveau”), #163 (“House-Gallery”) [VUL] Site visit: ● Goy, pp. 82-85 (“The Napoleonic Era and the Period of the Lungarno Vespucci, Vespucci Bridge, Borgo Unification”) [VUL] Ognissanti, Church of Ognissanti, Art Nouveau Vichi House, Via il Prato, Porta al Prato, Stazione Leopolda, Parco della Musica (New Auditorium), Le Cascine Park

-- Textbooks: The Left Bank of the River Arno: Oltrarno ● Augé, pp. 35-59 (“Anthropological Place”) Session 9 ● Zucconi, #40 (“Church of ”), #43 (“Gate The expansion of the city on the left bank of the Romana”), #57 (“Church of Santa Maria del Carmine”), #68 April 9 Arno between the 14th and 17th centuries. (“Church of Santo Spirito”), #93 (“Sacristy of Santo Spirito”), Florence and the enemy: Siena. Arnolfo’s 14th- #134 (“Ponte Santa Trinita”), #160 (“Corsini Chapel in the century City Walls: Porta Romana. A new Church of the Carmine”) -- Thematic reading, group 1: triumphal entry from South: the creation of Via ● 13, Holler, pp. 145-179 (“The Artisans’ Quarter”)[VUL+pdf] Maggio and the bridge of Santa Trinita in mid- -- Thematic reading, group 2: 16th century. Post-WWII reconstruction of the ● 14, Lasansky, pp. 79-83 (“The Artisan and the Intellect”), bridge. 83-98 (“Dictators as Tourists: Hitler’s Visit to Florence”)[VUL+pdf] -- Recommended readings: Site visit: ● Bini-Cresti, pp. 42-43 (“Medieval Gates”), #49 (“Santo Church of Santa Trinita, Ponte Santa Trinita, Via Spirito”), #63 (“Sacristy and Vestibule of Santo Spirito”), #69 Maggio, Church of Santo Spirito, Santa Maria (“Campanili of San Miniato and Santo Spirito”), #92 (“Ponte Santa del Carmine, Piazza Piattellina, Via del Leone, In- Trinita”) [VUL] line houses in Piazza Tasso, Porta Romana ● Nicholas Eckstein, (“Neighborhood as Microcosm”), in Crum-Paoletti, pp. 219-239, 546-550 [VUL+pdf] ● Goy, pp. 203-203 (“Santa Trinita”), 209-216 (“Santo Spirito”) [VUL] ● Outline, pp. 57-70 (“The New Architectural Culture and the Work of Brunelleschi”) [VUL]

-- Textbooks: Sant’Ambrogio and its Neighborhood ● DezziB, pp. 118-123 (“From Confinement to Liberation…”) Session 10 ● Zucconi, #58 (“Church of Sant’Ambrogio”), #115 (“Loggia Civic Spaces, Religion, Justice, and Information. del Pesce, or Loggia of the Fish”), #194 (“Piazza d’Azeglio”), April 16 Entering and leaving Florence through East: Via #195 (“Piazza Beccaria”), #209 (“Jewish Synagogue”), #220 Pietrapiana-Borgo La Croce, from Ancient (“Building of the Provincial Headquarters of the Mail and Roman axis to 16th-century route of the gallows. Telegraph Service”), #230 (“Headquarters of the State Archives”), Late 19th century: a “secular” Monarchy and the #231 (“Office Building of «La Nazione»”) [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 1: building of the Florence Synagogue in the (then) ● 15, Outline, pp. 153-161 (“From World War I to the End of Capital of Italy. Contemporary Florentine the Fascist Era”) [VUL+pdf] architecture and public spaces: Giovanni -- Thematic reading, group 2: Michelucci’s Post Office, Italo Gamberini’s State ● 16, Canniffe, pp. 169-183 (“Risorgimento: The Formation Archive, Pier Luigi Spadolini’s La Nazione Office of a National Urban Space”) [on-L]

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Building. Santa : from convent to jail to -- Recommended readings: postmodern headquarters of Florence School of ● Bini-Cresti, #142 (“Piazza D’Azeglio”), #143 (“Piazza Architecture. Le Murate: from convent to jail to Beccaria”), #152 (“Jewish Temple”), #183 (“Provincial 21st-century low-income housing and new Management Head Office of the Pp.Tt. of Florence”), #198 (“State piazzas. The 19th-century idea of piazza for the Archives”) [VUL] Bourgeoisie: Piazza d’Azeglio. After the ● Goy, pp. 286-291 (“The Form of the City in the Modern Era”) [VUL] bombings in WWII, a resulting “urban void”: ● Herselle Krinsky, pp. 348-351 (“The Synagogue of Piazza de’ Ciompi, the flea market, and the Florence”) [VUL] Mosque in Florence.

Site visit: Post Office, Via Pietrapiana, Piazza de’ Ciompi, Flea Market, , Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, Piazza d’Azeglio, Florence Synagogue, Piazza Ghiberti, La Nazione Office Building, Florence School of Architecture at Santa Verdiana, Low-income Housing at Le Murate, State Archive, Piazza Beccaria

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-- Textbooks: Santa Croce and its Neighborhood ● DezziB, pp. 52-65 Session 11 ● Zucconi, #27 (“Tower-house of the Alberti”), #35 (“Church The settling of the Mendicant Orders at the and Convent of Santa Croce”), #69 (“Chapel of the Pazzi and the April 23 edge of the city in the 13th century: II. The Great Cloister of Santa Croce”), #88 (“Palazzo Horne”), #96 Franciscan basilica and convent of Santa Croce. (“Church of San Giuseppe”), #188 (“Façade of the Church of Santa 15th-century route of the gallows: Via dei Croce”), #210 (“Main building of the Central National Libraray”) Malcontenti. The Anglo Americans in Florence [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 1: at the turn of the century, reviving the golden ● 17, Lorenzo Tripodi, (“The Productive Gaze: Florence as age: Herbert Percy Horne, his “Renaissance” th Archetype of the Cinematic City”), in Segmented City, pp. palace, and his circle. 20 century nationalism: 41-64 [on-L] folklore and culture. The rebirth of the historic -- Thematic reading, group 2: soccer game in , and the ● 18, Goy, pp. 195-202 (“Great Medieval Conventual inauguration of the National Central Library. Churches”) [VUL] Michelangelo Buonarroti, the man and the -- Recommended readings: myth. ● Bini-Cresti, pp. 39-40 (“The City inside the Third Cricle of Walls”), #29 (“Bargello”), #32 (“Santa Croce”), #136 Site visit: (“Campanile of the Basilica of Santa Croce”), #139 (“Façade of Horne Museum, Via dei Benci, Alberti Tower- Santa Croce”), #170 (“National Central Library”) [VUL] house, Piazza Santa Croce, Church and convent of Santa Croce, , National Central Library, Church of San Giuseppe, Via dei Malcontenti, Lungarni (river banks) and access to the Arno

-- Textbooks: The Left Bank of the Arno, East of Oltrarno ● DezziB, pp. 66-83 (“Urban Planning and the New Housing Session 12 Projects…”) : from fortified ● Zucconi, #11 (“San Miniato al Monte”), #95 (“Church of San April 30 Benedictine monastery to 19th-century Salvatore al Monte, or San Francesco al Monte”), #198 (“Viale dei cemetery. A hill with a view: Giuseppe Poggi’s Colli and ”), #226 (“Neighborhood of Public Housing at Sòrgane”) [VUL+pdf] Viale dei Colli and Piazzale Michelangelo. -- Thematic reading, group 1: Giovanni Michelucci’s idea of a “second Piazzale ● 19, Lasansky, pp. 203-208 (“Redesigning the Tourist

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Michelangelo”: The satellite residential Canon”) [VUL+pdf] neighborhood of Sòrgane, by Leonardo Ricci ● 20, Goy, pp. 81-82 (“The Grand Tour: The Image of the City and Leonardo Savioli (1962). Changing in the Eighteenth Century”) [VUL+pdf] -- Thematic reading, group 2: perspective on the city: low-income housing and the impact of the 1966 Florence flood. ● 21, Marco Castrignanò; Gabriele Manella, (“From Urban Sprawl to Sustainable Sities: A Neighborhood Perspective in

Urban Studies”), in Segmented City, pp. 27-40 [on-L] Site visit: -- Recommended readings: Church of San Miniato al Monte, Church of San ● Bini-Cresti, #10 (“San Miniato al Monte”), #66 (“San Salvatore al Monte, Piazzale Michelangelo, Salvatoreal Monte”), #69 (“Campanili di San Miniato al Monte residential neighborhood of Sòrgane, Viale and Santo Spirito”), #146 (“Buildings and Ramps in Piazza Europa Coop shopping mall Poggi”), #148 (“Loggia in Piazzale Michelangelo”), #189 (“Sorgane Housing Estate”) [VUL] ● Goy, pp. 186 (“San Miniato”) [VUL] ● Outline, pp. 170-197 (“The post-War period: Reconstruction and Expansion…”) [VUL]

-- Textbooks: Final Review ● Augé, pp. 1-5 (“Prologue”), 95-98 (“Epilogue”) Session 13 -- Thematic reading, groups 1, 2: Review of the main concepts covered in the ● 22, Giovannini, Paolo, (“The Great Urban Transformations May 7 second half of the semester. Discussion of the of The City of Florence: From Compactness to Sprawl”), pp. 119- readings. 214 [pdf] -- Recommended readings: Location: Ensemble Room ● Outline, pp. 203-127 (“Chronology”)

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Location: Ensemble Room May 14 -- Textbooks: Novoli and the North-West ● Augé, pp. 61-93 (“From Places to Non-Places”) Session 15 ● DezziB, pp. 71-73; 84-95 (“The (Failed) Rehabilitation of The building boom of the 1950s and the the FIAT Plan in Novoli…”) April 5 expansion of the city towards North-West. Low- ● Zucconi, #221 (“Church of San Giovanni Battista, or (To be confirmed th dell’Autostrada”) [VUL+pdf] income housing and mid 20 -century residential -- Thematic reading, group 1: the first week of architecture. Florence and the New Urbanism. st ● 23, Ingersoll, pp. 1-22 (“Changing Weather: A New class) 21 -century architecture for Education, Living, Metaphor for the City”) [on-L] Connection with nature, and Justice. A new -- Thematic reading, group 2: (European) dimension for shopping and ● 24, Outline, pp. 170-197 (“The post-War period: entertainment: Media Saturn Holding in Novoli. Reconstruction and Expansion…”) [VUL+pdf] -- Recommended readings: Bini-Cresti, #180 (“San Giovanni Battista, “the Motorway Field trip: ● Church”) [VUL] Church of the Autostrada, Barberino Outlet Village, Satellite headquarters of the University of Florence, Residential complexes from the 1950s in Novoli, New Urbanism and the residential complex at San Donato, Parco San Donato, New Law Court, Shopping- entertainment Mall Novoli-San Donato

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Classroom ● Eating is not permitted in the classrooms. Bottled water is permitted. Etiquette ● Cell phones should be turned off during class time. ● The use of personal laptops and other electronic handheld devices are prohibited in the classroom unless otherwise specified by the professor. ● We recycle! So keep it green! Please dispose of trash in the clearly marked recycle bins located throughout the on campus buildings

See Session 15 above. Required Co- curricular Activities

March 14-15, 2013: 9.00am-6.00pm Suggested Co- La Pietra Dialogues Conference on The New Civic Imagination: “Creative Urban Economies: A Dialogue curricular with U.S. and Italian Mayors” (in collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Mayors). Italian and U.S. Activities mayors discuss how investment in culture can be used as a municipal strategy of urban transformation and economic growth

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