Histories and Theories of Architecture 2: 1650-1943
This course examines architectural history and theory from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century through built projects, drawings, and theoretical texts. The course traces critical shifts in architectural thinking and production in response to major socio-cultural, technological, political, and philosophical changes associated with modernity, social and scientific revolution, and industrialization.
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Lectures Include:
2. From Architekton to Architectus: The Vitruvian Tradition
3. Beauty and Representation around Leon Battista Alberti
4. The Rise of Modernity around Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant
5. From Positive to Arbitrary: The Ancients and the Moderns
6. Palladio's Influence in the 17th and 18th Centuries
10. Eclecticism and the Rise of German Theory in the 19th Century
11. Engineering the Industrial City
12. Modernization and Democracy in the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries
13. Rationalism around Viollet-le-Duc and Auguste Perret
14. Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession
15. Adolf Loos and the Problem of Ornament
16. The Deutscher Werkbund and the Art of Mechanization
17. The American Trinity: Richardson, Sullivan, and Early F.L.W
18. Italian Futurism and Russian Constructivism