Arch 2112

History of Modern Architecture

This is the second in a two-part, knowledge-based, core survey of architectural history, from ancient to modern, and covers the history of architecture, primarily in western Europe and the United States, since 1750. The course seeks to familiarize students with a) major themes of romanticism/neoclassicism, 19 th c. historicism, and 20 th century modernism; b) noteworthy master architects and their followers or detractors, c) landmark buildings representative of significant styles and esthetic schools, and d) cross current of artistic, technological, and scientific influence affecting 20 th century practitioners of the building art.

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History of Medieval Architecture

Investigations of the architecture of medieval Europe with selected inquiries in Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic eras. The major emphasis of the course is the history of Romanesque and Gothic church architecture in France and England.

The course seeks:

• To develop a knowledge of major monuments, their stylistic (formal, structural, and ornamental) features, in the historic evolution of medieval architecture from Early Christian through regional expression of Romanesque to Gothic with an emphasis on architecture in France and England.
• To develop an awareness of the effect of materials and a knowledge of structural / technological advances in the evolution of medieval design.
• To develop a connoisseurship in the history of stained glass.
• To portray examples of architectural sculpture, wall paintings, and stained glass to encourage student's understanding of the medieval building's role as a didactic instrument of religious teaching.

Individual slide lectures are paired with assigned readings, primarily from three texts by Robert Calkins, Whitney Stoddard, and Alec Clifton-Taylor. Students are expected to attend all lectures and to read complementary assigned readings.

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Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement

The course investigates the background and development in England and America of the Architecture of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Through lectures, readings. Student research, and oral and written projects, the seminar will survey the theoretical background in the writings of Pugin, Ruskin, and Morris, as well as work of major English Arts and Crafts architects including Webbb, Lutyens, Voysey, Baillie Scott and others. In additional, three regional areas of American Arts and Crafts activity will be discussed: the East, with Stickley's Craftsman Movement and Hubbard's Roycrofters, the Chicago are during the era of the Prairie School, and California with the work of Greene and Greene, Gill, and Maybeck. The course will feature both built and unbuilt architectural works as well as decorative arts of these and other designers. Readings will include surveys of the movement and encyclopedic monographs on individual practitioners as well as critical and analytical discussions of major architectural works. Student projects will include an oral presentation on, as a case study of, a significant figure otherwise not given major attention in the course, as well as an issue paper which is more analytical, critical, or theoretical in character. Attention will also focus on scholarship and improving student writing.

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Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

The course investigates the life, times, and designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. Through lectures, readings, student research, and oral and written projects, the seminar will survey the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, studying both built and unbuilt architectural works as well as decorative arts and other designs of the architect. Readings will include analytical and critical discussions of Wright's work as well as descriptive histories of major Wright landmarks. Student projects will include an oral presentation with accompanying written materials, as a case study of a major Wright building, as well as an issue paper which is more analytical, critical, or theoretical in character. Attention will also focus on scholarship an improving student writing.

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Atlanta Architecture

This seminar investigates the architecture of Atlanta and provides an opportunity to engage in original research on selected topics concerning the city's architects, buildings, and development. Lectures and class discussions will deal with both historic and contemporary structures in the city and provide an overview of all periods of the city's architectural history. The focus of research will vary each term and will normally concentrate on a building type or a selected period usually limited to a decade or two. Spring 2004 research focused on Atlanta's religious architecture; spring 2005 on residential architecture of 1920s/'30s suburbs. Some readings will be assigned to complement lectures, but our major research resource will be the city and its architecture.

Arch 4124/8821

History of Architecture in the U.S.

Historical investigations of architecture within the continental United States from the Colonial period to the close of the 20 th century. Course goals include:

• To develop a connoisseurship so that students can recognize and accurately describe popular architectural styles in America, 17 th century to present; to train the eye to see;
• To develop a knowledge base of major landmarks which make up our national architectural heritage and of architects who designed representative works;
• To develop an awareness of the effect of materials and a knowledge of structural/technological advances in the evolution of American design;
• To instill in students an awareness and understanding of the role of vernacular and popular artifacts on the built environment as both reflections of high style architecture and an embodiment of American intellectual and cultural developments;
• To develop a sense of chronology placing monuments and building developments in relationship to each other, to intellectual, scientific, and artistic developments, and to political, economic changes in American and world history;
• To develop in students an ability to assess the significance of built works as documents of American culture and as reflections of changing taste and to understand influences from history and relevance to the present day.