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: 1
9th 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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