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No classes Feb.11-13
Feb.20 Between Family and State: Leon Battista Alberti
Primary Reading:
Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books [De re aedificatoria],
translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1988): ix-xxi; 1-32.
Anthony Grafton, “Alberti on the Art of Building,” in Grafton, Leon Battista
Alberti. Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2000):261-292.
Feb.25 Drawing the Ideal City: Filarete
Primary Reading:
Antonio di Piero Averlino, Filarete, Treatise on Architecture [Libro
architettonico, c. 1461-64]: Excerpts.
Feb.27 Villas in the Veneto, Temples in Venice: Palladio
Primary Reading:
Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture (I Quattro Libri dell’architecttura,
Venice, 1570): Excerpts.
Pier Vittorio Aureli, “The Go-Politics of the Ideal Villa,” AA Files 59 (2009):76-
85. PDF
Mar.4 Enlightenment Visions: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Primary Reading:
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Architecture considered in relation to art, mores, and
legislation (Paris: 1804): excerpts.PDF
Anthony Vidler, “The Theatre of Production: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the
Architecture of Social Reform,” AA Files (Winter 1981-82): PDF
Mar.6 Architecture and Revolution: Étienne-Louis Boullée
Primary Reading:
Étienne-Louis Boullée, Architecture: Essay on Art (unpublished, c. 1792):
Excerpts.
Mar.11 Romantic Histories (1): Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Primary Reading:
Kurt W. Forester, “Schinkel‟s Panoramic Planning of Central Berlin,” Modulus
16 (1983): 62-77.
Hermann G. Pundt, “K. F. Schinkel‟s Environmental Planning of Central Berlin,”
JSAH (May 1967):114-130, PDF
Mar.13 Romantic Histories (2): John Soane‟s Theoretical House
Primary Reading:
Helene Furjan, “Sir John Soane‟s Spectacular Theare,” AA Files, 47 (Summer
2002): 12-22. PDF
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Mar.18 Gothic Revivals: John Ruskin
William Morris
Primary reading:
Cornelis J. Baljon, “Interpreting Ruskin: The Argument of the Seven Lamps of
Architecture and the Stones of Venice,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
55, no. 4 (Autumn 1997): 401-414. PDF
Denis E. Cosgrove, “John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination,”
Geographical Review 69, no,1 (January 1979): 43-62. PDF
Mar.20 Metropolis and Modern Life: Adolf Loos
Primary reading:
Georg Simmel, “Metropolis and Modern Life,” 1902. PDF
Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime,” 1908.PDF
Daniel Purdy, “The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos,” New German
Critique 99 (Fall 2006): 41-62. PDF
Christopher Long, “The origins and Context of Adolf Loos‟s „Ornament and
Crime‟,” JSAH 66 no.2 (June 2009): 200-223. PDF
Mid-Semester Recess
Apr.1 Modern Manifestos: Futurism, Expressionism
Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism, 1909.
Antonio Sant‟Elia, Futurist Manifesto of Architecture, 1914
Bruno Taut, “The City Crown,” and “Alpine Architecture.”
Apr 3 Machines for Living: Le Corbusier
Primary reading:
Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture [Vers une architecture, Paris, 1923]
Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen, Translation by John Goodman (Los Angeles:
Getty Research Center, 2007):Excerpts.
Apr.8 The Art of Steel and Glass: Mies van der Rohe in Europe and the US.
Primary reading:
Detlef Mertins, “The Enticing Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the
Utopia of Glass,” PDF
K. Michael Hays, “Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form,” Perspecta
21 (1984): 14-29. PDF
Apr.10 “1968:” Counter architectures: From Guy Debord to Superstudio.
Primary Reading:
Guy Debord, and others, Situationist International (Paris 1958-68): Excerpts.
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No classes Feb.11-13
Feb.20 Between Family and State: Leon Battista Alberti
Primary Reading:
Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books [De re aedificatoria],
translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1988): ix-xxi; 1-32.
Anthony Grafton, “Alberti on the Art of Building,” in Grafton, Leon Battista
Alberti. Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2000):261-292.
Feb.25 Drawing the Ideal City: Filarete
Primary Reading:
Antonio di Piero Averlino, Filarete, Treatise on Architecture [Libro
architettonico, c. 1461-64]: Excerpts.
Feb.27 Villas in the Veneto, Temples in Venice: Palladio
Primary Reading:
Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture (I Quattro Libri dell’architecttura,
Venice, 1570): Excerpts.
Pier Vittorio Aureli, “The Go-Politics of the Ideal Villa,” AA Files 59 (2009):76-
85. PDF
Mar.4 Enlightenment Visions: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Primary Reading:
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Architecture considered in relation to art, mores, and
legislation (Paris: 1804): excerpts.PDF
Anthony Vidler, “The Theatre of Production: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the
Architecture of Social Reform,” AA Files (Winter 1981-82): PDF
Mar.6 Architecture and Revolution: Étienne-Louis Boullée
Primary Reading:
Étienne-Louis Boullée, Architecture: Essay on Art (unpublished, c. 1792):
Excerpts.
Mar.11 Romantic Histories (1): Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Primary Reading:
Kurt W. Forester, “Schinkel‟s Panoramic Planning of Central Berlin,” Modulus
16 (1983): 62-77.
Hermann G. Pundt, “K. F. Schinkel‟s Environmental Planning of Central Berlin,”
JSAH (May 1967):114-130, PDF
Mar.13 Romantic Histories (2): John Soane‟s Theoretical House
Primary Reading:
Helene Furjan, “Sir John Soane‟s Spectacular Theare,” AA Files, 47 (Summer
2002): 12-22. PDF
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Mar.18 Gothic Revivals: John Ruskin
William Morris
Primary reading:
Cornelis J. Baljon, “Interpreting Ruskin: The Argument of the Seven Lamps of
Architecture and the Stones of Venice,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
55, no. 4 (Autumn 1997): 401-414. PDF
Denis E. Cosgrove, “John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination,”
Geographical Review 69, no,1 (January 1979): 43-62. PDF
Mar.20 Metropolis and Modern Life: Adolf Loos
Primary reading:
Georg Simmel, “Metropolis and Modern Life,” 1902. PDF
Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime,” 1908.PDF
Daniel Purdy, “The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos,” New German
Critique 99 (Fall 2006): 41-62. PDF
Christopher Long, “The origins and Context of Adolf Loos‟s „Ornament and
Crime‟,” JSAH 66 no.2 (June 2009): 200-223. PDF
Mid-Semester Recess
Apr.1 Modern Manifestos: Futurism, Expressionism
Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism, 1909.
Antonio Sant‟Elia, Futurist Manifesto of Architecture, 1914
Bruno Taut, “The City Crown,” and “Alpine Architecture.”
Apr 3 Machines for Living: Le Corbusier
Primary reading:
Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture [Vers une architecture, Paris, 1923]
Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen, Translation by John Goodman (Los Angeles:
Getty Research Center, 2007):Excerpts.
Apr.8 The Art of Steel and Glass: Mies van der Rohe in Europe and the US.
Primary reading:
Detlef Mertins, “The Enticing Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the
Utopia of Glass,” PDF
K. Michael Hays, “Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form,” Perspecta
21 (1984): 14-29. PDF
Apr.10 “1968:” Counter architectures: From Guy Debord to Superstudio.
Primary Reading:
Guy Debord, and others, Situationist International (Paris 1958-68): Excerpts.
