Outline for Survey of Architecture History | ARCH 3115, Study notes of History of Architecture

Download Outline for Survey of Architecture History | ARCH 3115 and more Study notes History of Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! From Professor Mark Schneider 1 ARCHITECTURE 3115-90464: SURVEY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY CALENDAR, FALL 2008 Professor Mark Schneider NOTE: All of the readings listed below are available to you on line through the Electronic Reserve system at Newman Library. See explanation at the end of this syllabus to learn how to access the readings. ses. day date topic & readings 1. TU AUG 26 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE 2. TR AUG 28 BEGINNINGS TO ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA & THE NEAR EAST “Sacred Space and Making the World Sacred” in Mirca Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1987) pp. 20-65 “Chapter 3: Socio-Cultural Factors and House Form” in Amos Rapoport, House Form and Culture (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. Inc., 1969) pp. 46-82 “Chapter 2: The Cave and the Sky: Stone Age Europe” in Spiro Kostof: A History of Architecture (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1985) pp. 21-41 3. TU SEP 2 EGYPT “Ancient Egypt” in Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse: Buildings Across Time (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004) pp. 22-37 “Chapter 9: Homes for the People, the Pharaoh, and the Gods” in Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter, Egypt and the Egyptians (New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1999) pp. 125- 145 4. TR SEP 4 BRONZE AGE CRETE “Architecture of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean World” in Lloyd Seton, Hans Muller and Roland Martin: Ancient Architecture: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, Greece (New York, H. N. Abrams, 1974) pp. 193-224 5. TU SEP 9 FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO HELLENIC TIMES 6. TR SEP 11 HOW THE GREEKS BUILT CITIES Hale, De Boer, Chanton, Spiller “Questioning the Delphic Oracle” in Scientific American, Vol. 289, August 2003, pp. 67-73 Lothar Haselberger, “The Construction plans for the Temple of Apollo at Didyma” in Scientific American, Vol. 283,. December 1985, pp. 126-132 7. TU SEP 16 THE PERICLEAN ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS “The Buildings” in R. J. Hopper: The Acropolis (New York: Macmillan, 1971) pp. 91-139 W SEPT 17: EXAM REVIEW HANCOCK 100 7:00PM TO 8:30PM 8. TR SEP 18 FIRST EXAM 9. TU SEP 23 EARLY ROME “Chapter 2: City and Site” in Joseph Rykwert: The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World City and Site (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976) pp. 41-71. “Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia” in Henri Stierlin: The Roman Empire Vol. 1: (New York: Taschen, 1986) pp. 95-123 2 10. TR SEP 25 ROMAN IMPERIAL ARCHITECTURE “ Book 1: First Principles and the Layout of Cities” in Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (Trans. by Ingred D. Rowlan) (New York: Cambridge, 1999) pp. 21-32 “Chapter 1: The Colosseum” in D. L. Bomgardner: The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre (NewYork: Routledge, 2000) pp. 1-31 FIRST 10 BUILDING DOCUMENTATION STUDIES DUE IN CLASS TR SEP 25 11. TU SEP 30 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE “ Chapter 2: Early Christian Buildings to AD 500” in Robert G. Calkins: Medieval Architecture in Western Europe (New York: Oxford, 1998) pp. 14-33 12. TR OCT 2 ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE “The Flowering of the Desert: Islam” in Patrick Nuttgens: The Story of Architecture (London: Phaidon Press, Ltd. 1998) pp. 144-157 “Chapter 4: Architectural Order” in Samer Akkach: Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam (Albany: State U. of New York, 2005) pp. 149-206 13. TU OCT 7 THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIAN ASIA