Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present

Calendar

LEC #	LECTURE TOPICs	DISCUSSION TOPICs	KEY DATES
1	Constructing the Past Exploring Forth and Digging Under	Buildings, Projects, Architects John Soane - House and Museum, Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Carceri d’Invenzioni, The Bamiyan Buddhas, Afghanistan
2	Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave Trade	Field trip to Mt. Auburn Cemetery
3	Landscape The Politics of Site	Buildings, Projects, Architects Versailles, Stowe, Monticello
4	Architecture and Industrialism, Part 1: The Ghosts of Technology	Buildings, Projects, Architects The Eiffel Tower, Pavilion d’Esprit Nouveau, The Statue of Liberty
5	Architecture as Ornament	Buildings, Projects, Architects William Morris - Red House, Auguste Perret - Rue Franklin Apartments, Adolf Loos - Villa Karma, Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona Pavilion, Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye
6	Architecture and Industrialism, Part 2: Masses, Classes and Regions	Buildings, Projects, Architects Ebenezer Howard - The Garden City, Toni Garnier - Cité Industrielle, Le Corbusier - Villa Contemporaine
7	Domesticity Gender in Space	Buildings, Projects, Architects Frank Lloyd Wright - Frederick C. Robie House, Hanna House, Edgar J. Kaufmann House; Adolf Loos - Josephine Baker House	Exploration of topics for final paper
8	Making of the Modernist Avant-Garde and the Operative Historian	Buildings, Projects, Architects Wiesenhofsiedlung 1927, Examples from Nancy Troy’s Book on de Stijl
9	Body Talk Body as Metaphor in Architecture	Buildings, Projects, Architects Siegfried Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command	Finalization and presentation of paper topics
10	Ludic Spaces The Architecture of Play	Buildings, Projects, Architects Paris Exposition Universelle 1989, Centre Pompidou, Coney Island
11	Lines Across the City Architecture and the State	Buildings, Projects, Architects Hausmann’s Paris, Vienna’s Ringstrasse, Chandigarh
12	Post-War Narratives of “Development”	Buildings, Projects, Architects Le Corbusier - Unité d’Habitation, Team X Projects
13	Final Lecture	The Story so Far - Discussion and Recap