PART 1 – The Classical Basis of Western Architecture
Sessions 1-2, February 2-4
Course Introduction
Antiquity and the Classical Styles, Graeco-Roman works
Sessions 3-4, February 9-11
Early Byzantium
Carolingian and Ottonian
Romanesque
Sessions 5-6, February 16-18
Early, High, and Late Gothic Periods
Session 7-8, February 23-25
The Renaissance (part 1: Brunelleschi and Alberti)
The ‘re-birth’ in art and perspective
Proportion and Universality
Session 8, Thursday February 25
The Renaissance (part 2: Bramante and Palladio)
Session 9-10, March 2-4
The Baroque – Mathematics and Perception
The Rococo (Late Baroque)
Session 11, Tuesday March 9
Quiz – Part I
Session 12, Thursday March 11
Neoclassicism (part 1: France)
Neoclassicism (part 2: Italy, US, and Germany)
The rediscovery of antiquity with Piranesi
Translation of classical Europe to the US
Schinkel’s Berlin, and Gilly’s return to Classicism
PART 2 – Towards Modernism
Session 13, Tuesday March 16
Haussmann, Olmsted, Cerdà , Howard
Session 14, Thursday March 18
Architecture of the First Industrial Revolution
Paxton, Garnier, Eiffel, and Sullivan
Session 15, Tuesday March 23
Wellness Week, no class
Session 16, Thursday March 25
Wellness Week, no class
Session 17, Tuesday March 30
Session 18, Thursday April 1
Session 19, Tuesday April 6
Revival Movements (Beaux Arts, Neo-Gothic, Victorian)
Session 20, Thursday April 8
Ornament
PART 3 – Modernism and its Aftermath
Session 21, Tuesday April 13
Modernism (part 1)
Session 22, Thursday April 15
Review session for Quiz Part II
Session 23, Tuesday April 20
Quiz – Part II
Session 24, Thursday April 22
Frank Lloyd Wright (Part II)
Session 25, Tuesday April 27
Session 26, Thursday April 29
Session 27, Tuesday May 4
Review Session
Session 28, Thursday May 6
Final Quiz (w/ slight emphasis on Part III)