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2: The Red Land and the Black Land Egypt and the Nile. Pyramids: the step pyramid at Saqqara, the Gisa pyramid group, later pyramids. The temples of Luxor and Karnak, Deir-el-Bahri. Obelisks from Luxor via Alexandria and Rome to New York. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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3: Architecture and Sacrifice Origins of the Greek Doric order. Thermon, Paestum, the colossal temples of Greek Sicily, the Akropolis in Athens. Ionic: the Erechtheion. Bassae and the origin of the Corinthian order. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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4: Hellenized Rome |
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5: Hadrian in Town and Country The concrete revolution in Roman architecture. The Pantheon. Hadrian's Wall in Britain. Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. Hadrianic architecture in Athens and Pergamon. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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6: In Hoc Signo Vinces Constantine's conversion to Christianity and its implications for architecture. The Arch of Constantine. Origins of the Roman basilica. The Lateran Basilica and Old St. Peter's. Concrete public architecture: the great Roman baths and the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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7: House of the Prophet
The origins of the mosque. Mosques of Damascus, Jerusalem and Kairouan. The Great Mosque of Cordoba. Jerusalem: temple of Solomon, Dome of the Rock. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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8: "Solomon I have outdone Thee" Constantinople from Constantine to Justinian. Aqueducts, cisterns and fortifications. Hagia Sophia: form, sources and structure. Hagia Eirene and SS. Sergius and Bacchus. The Ottoman conquest in 1453. Sinan and the Ottoman mosque. Hagia Sophia from Mehmed the Conqueror to Ataturk. The Great Church and the Great Idea. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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9: Around the Millennium |
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10: Exoskeletons The Gothic cathedral: form, structure, cult. Suger's St. Denis, Chartres, Bourges. Canterbury Cathedral and Early English. Cistercian alternatives: Fountains Abbey and Fossanova. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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11: Born Again
Brunelleschi and the Florentine Renaissance: S. Lorenzo and S. Spirito, the Old Sacristy, the cupola of Florence Cathedral. Alberti: the Ten Books on Building and the revival of Roman architecture in Rimini and Mantua. Leonardo: central plans. Bramante's tempietto. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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12: Life on the Lagoon
Origins of Venice. San Marco and Palazzo Ducale. Byzantine and Islamic Influences. The Romanization of Venice. Palladio: Venetian churches and villas on the terrafirma. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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13: "David with his sling, I with my bow" Michelangelo: origins and early sculpture. S. Lorenzo in Florence and the move into architecture. The Medici Chapel and the Laurentian Library. New St. Peter's from Bramante to Michelangelo. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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14: Mid-term —ID's of known major monuments —ID's of unknown buildings —comparison and contrast of major buildings and plans |
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15: Heavenly Theorems The beginnings of Italian baroque. Bernini's S. Andrea al Quirinale, Borromini's S. Ivo, Guarini's Holy Shroud and S. Lorenzo in Turin. Asamkirche in Munich, Wieskirche in Bavaria, the churches of Santini-Aichel in Bohemia. Architecture and geometry. |
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16: A Man's Home is his Castle
The medieval castle in England and France. Donjons, dungeons, salons and saloons. The great hall in English domestic architecture. Henry VIII and Hampton Court. Bess of Hardwick. French chateaux and the structure of nobility. The Italian house from tower to palazzo. Palazzo Ducale at Urbino. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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17: A Green Thought in a Green Shade
The medieval Hortus Conclusus. The Renaissance garden: formal and less so. Papal villas: Belvedere and Villa Madama. Medici Villas: Poggio a Caiano and Pratolino. Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Le Nôtre and the French Formal Garden. Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles. The English Garden in the eighteenth century. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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18: The Ideological City The Roman castrum plan in Florence and the Campo in Siena. Pius II at Pienza. The Baltimore, Berlin and Urbino panels. Michelangelo's Capitoline Hill. Sixtus V and the replanning of Rome. Architecture and water in the baroque piazza. Piazza Trevi, Piazza Navona and Piazza S. Pietro in Rome. Town planning books and the New World: Mexico City and Savannah. |
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20: This Scepter'd Isle
Inigo Jones and Palladio. London after the fire of 1666. Christopher Wren and St. Paul's Cathedral. City Churches of Wren and Hawksmoor. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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21: The City of Light
Paris in the Renaissance. Henri IV: Places des Vosges, Place Dauphine, Louvre. Places Royales. The Parisian Hôtel. From Ste. Geneviève to Panthéon. Haussmann and Napoleon III. Summerson essay due in Sch. 826 Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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22: Archeology and Innovation in the Eighteenth Century Piranesi: Prisons, Roman antiquities, Campus Martius, the Graeco-Roman controversy. Eighteenth-century travel to Split, Baalbek, Palmyra and Athens. Robert Adam and John Soane. Boullée and romantic classicism on the eve of the French Revolution. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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23: New Found Land The new republic seen through the sketchbooks of Benajmin Latrobe. Jefferson and French classicism. The planning of Washington, D.C. and the Manhattan grid. The Federal Style and the Greek Revival. Latrobe and Bulfinch. |
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| Thanksgiving
Holiday November 22 |
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25: Search for a Style in the 19th Century
Schinkel in Berlin. Rebels and radicals: Victor Hugo, Labrouste, Viollet-le-Duc. Ruskin, Butterfield and the Gothic revival. The design methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. H.H. Richardson and the Romanesque Revival in America. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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26: In the Nature of Materials
Frank Lloyd Wright: Wisconsin origins, apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan, the Oak Park Home and Studio, Unity Temple, the Prairie House. Le Corbusier and the origins of the International Style. Ville Savoie. Fallingwater. Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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27: Engineers and Architects
Canals, dams, bridges. The Brooklyn and George Washington Bridges. Bogardus and the invention of the cast-iron facade. Skyscrapers 1890–1914 in New York and Chicago. The Empire State Building. Recent skyscrapers. Lecture Images | Lecture notes |
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28: From Here? Venturi and Postmodernism. Louis Kahn and the revival of the Roman brick. The contemporary art museum from Guggenheim to Bilbao. [Final essay on modern architecture due in Sch 826 anytime between the last class. Lecture Images |
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| Final examination (Thursday, December 13), Sch 501, 4:10– 6:00 PM | ||||
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