Modern Architecture Syllabus

HISTORY OF ART 282: Modern Architecture
SCHEDULE -- SPRING 1999

Prof. David B. Brownlee
Ms. Rachel Iannacone

OFFICE HOURS: Brownlee (Mondays 3-5, in Harnwell 211; please make appointments in advance by calling 573-3497; Thursdays 3-5, in Jaffe 210; please make appointments in advance at the History of Art office or by calling 573-9702). Iannacone (Mondays 1-2, in Jaffe B-8).

	Lecture	Section for the Week
J 11 13 15	Introduction -- Engineering in the later 19th century	DISCUSSION: 19th century themes
* 18 20 22	Louis Sullivan and the skyscraper The Arts and Crafts Movement --	DISCUSSION: Sullivan and writing about architecture
25 27 29	Frank Lloyd Wright to 1909 Art Nouveau: Horta, Van de Velde, Guimard --	EXCURSION: PMA fin-de-siécle decorative arts
F 1 3 5	Voysey, Mackintosh, Berlage, Gaudi Vienna: Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann, Loos --	DISCUSSION: Wright and Loos
8 10 12	Behrens, the Werkbund, and early Gropius -- Garnier and Perret	EXCURSION: Ross Gallery Cottingham show
* 15 17 19	Futurism and Expressionism Le Corbusier to 1930 Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus	DISCUSSION: Towards a New Architecture
22 24 26	Holland and the USSR America and the "International Style" MID-TERM EXAMINATION	DISCUSSION: review
M 1 3 5	Twentieth-century classicism Art Deco --	EXCURSION: Benjamin Franklin Parkway
15 17 19	Mies van der Rohe in Europe; Alvar Aalto -- Frank Lloyd Wright: The Middle Period	EXCURSION: Philadelphia skyscrapers
22 24 26	Le Corbusier: 1930-1965 Frank Lloyd Wright: Usonia --	none
29 31 A 2	Gropius and Mies in America; Philip Johnson Britain after World War II Louis I. Kahn	none
5 7 9	Saarinen, Rudolph, Roche, Pei Venturi and Moore --	WEDNESDAY: Richard's Medical Laboratory SUNDAY EXCURSION: Wright's Beth Sholom
12 14 *16	Greys and whites -- The presence of the past	DISCUSSION: Learning from Las Vegas
19 21 23	East and West, North and South -- After the twentieth century	none (review tbd)
M 3	Final Exam, 11-1, Meyerson B-3

* Papers due on these dates; see separate assignment sheets.