History Of Art 009 303:
Writing About Architecture and the American City

Course Schedule

Th - Sept 9 Introduction / Impressions of the City
Tu - Sept 14 Formal analysis (part 1)
O'Gorman, whole book
Th - Sept 16 Origins of the Skyscraper (part 1)
Condit (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 1
Tu - Sept 21 Origins of the Skyscraper (part 2)
Landau & Condit (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 2
Th - Sept 23 Formal analysis (part 2) (excursion)
Flower, "Writer-based prose" (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 3
Fr - Sept 24 Add Ends
Tu - Sept 28 Urban Evolution
Frampton (bulkpack)
Mohl (bulkpack)
Vocabulary Quiz
Th - Sept 30 Frank Furness
Thomas (bulkpack)
Argument paper (ver.1)
Mo - Oct 4 Conferences
Tu - Oct 5 Peer review of papers Informal Assignment 4
Th - Oct 7 *NY High Rises (excursion) Argument paper (ver.2)
Tu - Oct 12 H.H. Richardson
Van Rensselaer (bulkpack)
O'Gorman (bulkpack)
Th - Oct 14 Louis Sullivan
Condit (bulkpack)
Sullivan (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 5
Fr - Oct 15 Drop Period Ends
Oct 16 - Oct 18 Fall Break
Tu - Oct 19 *NY High Rises (excursion)
Th - Oct 21 Research trip to the library Formal analysis (ver.1)
Oct 22 - Oct 24 Family Weekend
Mo - Oct 25 Conferences
Tu - Oct 26 Peer review
Th - Oct 28 Formal analysis (ver.1)
Tu - Nov 2 Suburban growth, railway transportation (excursion)
Jackson "Home, Sweet Home: The House and the Yard", and "The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads." Chaps. 3 & 5
Informal Assignment 6
Th - Nov 4 Frank Lloyd Wright
O'Gorman (bulkpack)
Wright (bulkpack)
Tu - Nov 9 Housing and the Underclass
Riis (bulkpack)
Immigrant Testimonies (bulkpack)
Boyer (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 7
Th - Nov 11 City as Liberating Space
Butler (bulkpack)
Stansell (bulkpack)
Informal Assignment 8
Tu - Nov 16 Historic Preservation
Mitchell Schwarzer, "Myths of Permancence and Transience in the Discourse on Historic Preservation in the United States," Journal of Architectural Education vol.48, no.1 (September 1994):2-11.

Kay Weeks, "Are We Losing Authenticity to Recover Appearances?" CRM vol17, no 5 (1994):26-32.

Desk pamphlets on Reserve in Furness

Th - Nov 18 Parks & Fresh Air
Rosenzweig & Blackmar (bulkpack)
Olmsted (bulkpack)
Jacobs, "The Uses of Neighborhood Parks." Chap. 5.
Research paper (ver.1)
Tu - Nov 23 Peer review
Wed - Nov 23 Conferences
Tu - Nov 30 Philadelphia Walking Excursion Research paper (ver.2)
Th - Dec 2 The Walking City
Jacobs, "Introduction", "The Uses of City Neighborhoods." Chaps. 1 & 6
Jackson, "Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City." Chap. 2
Informal Assignment 9
Tu - Dec 7 Presentations
Th - Dec 9 Presentations
Party

Note: October 7 and October 19 are available dates for a NY excursion. The day we do not go on the trip, we will have a writing workshop on the use of the Chicago Manual of Style.

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