ARHA151 - European Architecture to 1750

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European Architecture to 1750
ARHA151 SP

This course is an introduction to architecture as a prime representative expression of pre-modern European civilizations, from ancient Greece through the early 18th century. The course focuses on developing the ability to analyze architectural form. Emphasis is on canonical, monumental buildings, their urban and historical situations, and related works of visual art in other media (sculpture and painting). In each era, how does architecture help to constitute its society's identity? What is the relationship between style and ideology? How do architects respond to the works of earlier architects, either innovatively or imitatively? How do patrons respond to the works of their predecessors, either locally or distantly? How are works of archite cture positioned within those structures of power that the works in turn help to define? How do monuments celebrate selected aspects of history and suppress others? Lectures, readings, and discussions address these and related questions, with each class focused on specific periods and sites, emphasizing visual culture at different scales (urban form, architecture, object, and image). Emphasis will be on exploring continuities and distinctions between works across time, seeing Western traditions as a tot ality over centuries. Lectures and readings convey different historiographic approaches to these issues.

MAJOR READINGS

Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabel Hyman, ARCHITECTURE, FROM PREHISTORY TO POSTMODERNIS.
R.F. Rhodes, ARCHITECTURE AND MEANING ON THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS
William MacDonald, THE PANTHEON
Whitney S. Stoddard, ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Peter Murray, ARCHITECTURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Henry Millon, BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two papers, two in-class exams and a final.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Students who are majors or prospective majors in Art History may take ARHA151 in place of ARHA101, which will not be offered in 1999-2000. Students who have taken ARHA101 should not take ARHA151.

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: Lecture/Discussion

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... 10:00AM-11:20AM; Location: CINE

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 50)

SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 5

SR. non-major: X Jr. non-major: X SO: 20 FR: 20

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000