Tentative 2008 Schedule (Subject to Change)
31 March Lecture #1: Introduction; the problem of "Modern
Architecture"
02 April Lecture #2: The Emergence of
Neoclassicism
04 April Lecture #3: The
French Enlightenment; Boullee and Ledoux
07 April Lecture #4: Variations on Neoclassicism; Soane, Schinkel
09 April Lecture #5: Romanticism and the early Gothic Revival
11 April Lecture #6: The Spread and Breakdown of Neoclassicism
14 April Lecture #7: "In What Style Shall We Build?" (QUIZ)
16 April Lecture
#8: H. H. Richardson
18 April Lecture #9: New Domestic Architecture: England and America
21 April Lecture
#10: 19th Century Technological Developments
23 April Lecture #11: The Tall Building: Chicago and elsewhere
25 April Lecture #12: Frank Lloyd Wright to 1914
28 April IN CLASS MIDTERM EXAM
30 April Lecture #13: The Eclectic Era, America and elsewhere, 1880-1925
02 May Lecture #14: Art
Nouveau; Horta and Guimard; Gaudi; Mackintosh
05 May Lecture #15: Vienna: The "Testiing Ground of Modernism"
07 May Lecture #16: Continental
Directions, 1900-1914
09 May Lecture
#17: A New Aesthetic: Futurism, deStijl, Constructivism
TAKE-HOME MIDTERM DUE
12 May Lecture #18: The Bauhaus; "Neue Sachlichkeit"; Social Housing
14 May Lecture #19: Searching for Modernism: Mies, LeCorbusier
16 May Lecture #20: The Modern Movement Coalesces
19 May Lecture #21: From Tradition to Modernity
21 May Lecture #22: The Spread of Modernism, 1920 to the 1940s
23 May Lecture #23: Modernism comes to America, 1920 to 1942 (QUIZ)
26 May HOLIDAY: NO CLASS
28 May Lecture #24: The
Post-war Period: Modernism and Corporate America
30 May Lecture #25: The Variety of Post-war Modernism
02 June Lecture #26: The Problem of Monumentality, 1945-1975
04 June Lecture #27: The Search for Meaning: Postmodernism and Alternatives
06 June Lecture #28: Modernism, Technology, Place
Monday, 9 June, 8:30 – 10:20 in the classroom: EXAM
as scheduled by University of Washington
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