Art 339 - Class Schedule

Textbook readings are assigned from the following book whose purchase is highly recommended: William Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900. Pages required for reading from the textbook are indicated in the lecture schedule below, indicated by "Curtis." Readings from Programs and Manifestoes on 20th century Architecture are indicated by "Conrads."

In addition, the following two books are required reading:

Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture

Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Sept. 7: Introduction to the course

• Curtis 11-17

Sept. 9: Nineteenth century architecturee

• Curtis 21-51; Conrads 13, 18

Explorations of Modernity

Sept. 12: Art Nouveau in Belgium and France

• Curtis 53-71

Sept. 14: Art Nouveau in Spain

Sept. 12: Art Nouveau in Scotland and Austria

• Conrads 19-24

Sept. 19: New Construction Materials

• Curtis 73-85

Sept. 21: The Arts and Crafts Movement

• Curtis 87-97

Sept. 23: The Machine Age

• Curtis 99-111; Conrads 26-38

Sept. 26:  Discussion: "Ornament and Crime"

Sept. 28:  Developing your research topic

• PRELIMINARY PRELIMINARY RESEARCH TOPIC DUE

Sept. 30: Frank Lloyd Wright

• Curtis 113-129; Conrads 25

Oct. 3: The New Space

• Curtis 149-159; Conrads 39-40, 64-67, 78-80

Oct. 5: Le Corbusier

• Curtis 163-181, 275-285; Conrads 99-101; Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture

Oct. 7: Discussion: Toward an Architecture

Oct. 10: COLUMBUS DAY - no class

Expressing the Spirit of the Times

Oct. 12: The Bauhaus

• Curtis 183-199
• REVISED RESEARCH TOPIC DUE

Oct. 14:  Using the library's resources to develop your research topic: introduction

Oct. 17: Russian Constructivism

• Curtis 201-215; Conrads 87-99, 121-2

Oct. 19: The American Skyscraper

• Curtis 217-227, 237-239

Oct. 21: Discussion: Research Topics and Bibliographic Citation

Oct. 24: American Modernism

• Curtis 227-237
• REVISED RESEARCH TOPIC DUE

Oct. 26: Workers' Housing

• Curtis 241-255

Oct. 28: The International Style

• Curtis 257-273, 305-311; Conrads 71-75, 81-2, 102,115-120, 128-136

Oct. 31: Review

Nov. 2: MIDTERM EXAM

The Modern Movement Matures

Nov. 4: Le Corbusier in the 30s

• Curtis 319-327; Conrads 89-94

Nov. 7: Frank Lloyd Wright in the 30s

• Curtis 311-19; Conrads 124-5

Nov. 9: Politics, Nationalism, and Tradition in Architecture

• Curtis 131,147, 287-303. 351-369

Nov. 11: VETERANS' DAY - no class

Postwar Reactions

Nov. 14: Alvar Aalto

• Curtis 329-349, 453-469

Nov. 16: America Postwar Modernism

• Curtis 395-415

Nov. 18: Later Le Corbusier

• Curtis 417-442,

Nov. 18: Louis Kahn

• Curtis 513-527; Conrads 169-170

Nov. 23: Discussion: The Modernist Legacy

Nov. 27: THANKSGIVING - no class

Nov. 23: Discussion: Research topics

• RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

Nov. 30: CIAM and Team X

• Curtis 443-451,471-89, 529-557; Conrads 109-113,137-145

Dec. 1: The Whites and the Grays

• Curtis 557-565, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Dec. 5: Discussion: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Dec. 7: European Voices of Revision

• Curtis 589-633

Dec. 9: Postmodernism and Deconstruction

• Curtis 657-689

Dec. 12: Recent Architecture

• Curtis 657-689

Dec. 14:  Review and course evaluation

• RESEARCH PAPER  DUE

Dec. 16-22 (date to be announced):   FINAL EXAM

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