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Academic Year 2005/2006

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 monumentality and collective memory, stylistic analysis, philosophical aesthetics, iconography and semiotics, patronage and ideological expression, structural technology and building process, material culture and consumption, vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes, spatial form, sociology, colonial and postcolonial architecture, feminist architectural history and feminist architecture, and digital design and fabrication in architecture.

MAJOR READINGS

Heinrich Wolfflin, RENIASSANCE AND BAROQUE
Roger Scruton, AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE
Erwin Panofsky, MEANING IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Henri Lefebvre, THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE
Robert Mark, LIGHT, WIND AND STRUCTURE
Henry Glassie, MATERIAL CULTURE
Joan Rothschild, DESIGN AND FEMINISM
Donald Preziosi, THE ART OF ART HISTORY: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
Francoise Choay, THE INVENTION O FTHE HISTORIC MONUMENT

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.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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