ARHA364 - Architecture: Historiography, Theory, Criticism; Traditional and Contemporary Approaches

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Academic Year 2002/2003

Architecture: Historiography, Theory, Criticism; Traditional and Contemporary Approaches
ARHA 364 FA

This seminar, intended primarily for majors in history of art and architecture and for studio majors concentrating in architecture, surveys different methods of studying architecture and its history. Emphasis throughout is on comparison of general theories of interpretation in art history and other disciplines and their application to specific works of art and architecture. Topics include stylistic analysis, philosophical aesthetics, iconography and semiotics, social and ideological expression, cultural capital, structural technology and material culture, vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes, consumption theory and consumerism, collective memory, reception theory and spectatorship, colonial and postcolonial architecture, feminist architectural history and feminist architecture, and digital design and fabrication in architecture.

MAJOR READINGS

Heinrich Wölfflin, PRINCIPLES OF ART HISTORY
Roger Scruton, AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE
Erwin Panofsky, MEANING IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Roland Barthes, ELEMENTS OF SEMIOLOGY
Jurgen Habermas, STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Henri Lefebvre, THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE
David Harvey, CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE URBAN EXPERIENCE
Robert Mark, LIGHT, WIND AND STRUCTURE
W. David Kingery, ed., LEARNING FROM THINGS: METHOD AND THEORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES,
Robert Bocock, CONSUMPTION
M. Christine Boyer, THE CITY OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Jonathan Crary, TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVER
Edward Said, ORIENTALISM
Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., THE EXPANDING DISCOURSE: FEMINISM AND ART HISTORY
William J. Mitchel l, CITY OF BITS: SPACE, PLACE, AND THE INFOBAN

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

One short paper, one midterm exam, two oral presentations, one final research paper

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Previous course(s) in art history, architectural history and architecture will be helpful, though these are not formal prerequisites.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Siry,Joseph M.

Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: DAC300

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 18)

SR. major: 4 Jr. major: 4

SR. non-major: 3 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 4 FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Speaking

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003