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ARHA345
Chicago Architecture 1880-1910
ARHA345 SP
Crosslistings: AMST345
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 16 16 0
This seminar focuses on the development of commercial and
residential architecture in Chicago during the late
19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasis on the
emergence of a regional school of architecture in relation
to inherited stylistic traditions, innovations in building
technique and surrounding conditions of urbanization. Work
of the major figures, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright,
considered for their theoretical origins and their
contribution to later architecture in this century.
MAJOR READINGS
William Jordy, AMERICAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR
ARCHITECTS, VOLUME IV: PROGRESSIVE AND ACADEMIC IDEALS AT
THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Daniel Bluestone, CONSTRUCTING CHICAGO
Henry Russell Hitchcock, IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS; THE
BUILDINGS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 1887-1941
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Midterm examination,
research paper and class presentations of research.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Preference for
enrollment given to departmental majors, especially those in
history of art or in architecture. Prior completion of
ARHA246 and/or ARHA254 may be helpful, though these courses
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: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ART
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Siry, J
- Times: M...... 1:10PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 2, So: 3, Fr: 4
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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