CITY/HART 253 Semester
I, 2003/04
Survey of Western Architecture Mr. Cast, Ms.
Hein, Ms. Brady
Office hours: Ms. Hein, Thomas 243, F 12:30-2:30; Mr. Cast,
Thomas 230, W 2-4; Ms. Brady, TBA; and by appointment
Suggested
reference reading:
Required
reading (available at bookstore and on reserve):
Marvin
Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman, Architecture
from Prehistory to Post-Modernism: The Western
Tradition,
Course packet: Vitruvius; Alberti; Palladio; Goethe; Viollet-le-Duc;
Crystal Palace; Conrads; Hitchcock; Ockman; Venturi; Tzonis.
I. Introduction:
What is Western Architecture: The Greek,
Roman and Medieval Traditions. Sept. 1-10
Read:
Trachtenberg and Hyman, Introduction, chapters 3 and 7, pp. 49-53, 116-157,
223-273. Chapter 2, pp. 90-115, optional. (Refer to
the Glossary in Trachtenberg and Hyman throughout the course.)
Course
packet: Vitruvius; Alberti;
Palladio
II. Renaissance
and Baroque Architecture. Sept. 11-Oct. 6
Read: Trachtenberg and Hyman, 276-371
First Writing Assignment: Sept. 24
Hour Examination: Oct. 8
III. Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries: the Birth of Modernism. Oct. 20-Oct. 29
Read: Trachtenberg and Hyman, 375-463
Course packet: Goethe; Viollet-le-Duc;
IV. Modern
Architecture. Nov. 3-Nov. 24
Read: Trachtenberg and Hyman, 465-523
Course packet: Conrads;
Hitchcock; Ockman
V. Second
Modernism, Modernisms, Dec. 1-Dec. 12
Read: Trachtenberg and Hyman, 525-581
Course packet: Venturi;
Tzonis
Hour Examination: Dec. 10
Second Writing Assignment: Dec. 12