Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy , vol. 1 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University

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1 Architecture in Europe, FAH 92/192 01, Spring 2010 Mon/Wed 1:30 2:45, Aidekman Arts Center 13 Professor Kimberley Skelton Office Hours: Wed, 3:00 4:00, Art History Building Room This course studies shifts in architectural theory and practice from the Counter Reformation to the beginning of industrialization. Themes include: scientific empiricism and new modes of viewing, architecture as rhetoric for fashioning political, religious and social identity, colonization and architectural reinterpretation, changing attitudes toward history, and the development of architecture as a professional discipline. Course Requirements Building Analysis Paper 15% Research Proposal 10% In class Midterm Exam 20% Final Research Paper 25% Take home Final Exam 20% Class Participation 10% Required Texts Anthony Blunt, Art and Architecture in France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). John Summerson, Architecture in Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy , vol. 2 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). Additional readings are available on the Blackboard website. COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1: January 25, 27 Introduction: Worlds of Motion Spiro Kostof, A History of Western Architecture: Settings and Rituals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), Reformed Religion and Design Excerpts from Decrees of Council of Trent. Joris Snaet, For the Greater Glory of God: Religious Architecture in the Low Countries , in Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relations Between the Southern and Northern Low Countries , eds. Krista De Jonge and Konrad Ottenheym (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy , vol. 1 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1 17.

2 Week 2: February 1, 3 Propagandistic Design in France and Spain Blunt, , Jesus Escobar, The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), International Courtly and Architectural Networks in Stuart England Readings: Summerson, 75 89, , Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture (London, 1624), Week 3: February 8, 10 Dutch Locality Redefined Internationally Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), Empiricism, Movement, and Political Argument Wittkower, 23 29, 39 74, Francis Bacon, Preface to The Great Instauration, in New Atlantis and the Great Instauration, ed. Jerry Weinberger (Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1989), Week 4: February 17, 18 Urban Narratives of Movement and Argument Wittkower, 33 38, Christian Norberg Schulz, Baroque Architecture (New York: Phaidon, 2003), The Physical and Social Body in the Urban Palace Building Analysis Paper due Patricia Waddy, Seventeenth Century Roman Palaces: Use and Art of the Plan (New York and Cambridge: Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, 1990), 3 24, 67 69, Week 5: February 22, 24 The Leisured Traveller in the Country Blunt, Summerson, Alastair Fowler, The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth Century Estate Poems and Related Items (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), , , James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990), Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), 2 12.

3 Illusions of Scientific Precision by Wren and Guarini Summerson, Christopher Wren, Tract I, in Wren s Tracts on Architecture and other Writings, ed. Lydia Soo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy , vol. 3 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), Week 6: March 1, 3 Massive Materiality of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh Summerson, John Vanbrugh, Mr Van Brugg s Proposals about Building ye New Churches, in Vanbrugh, by Kerry Downes (London: A. Zwemmer, 1977), A National Architecture Codified in Louis XIV s France Blunt, , Claude Perrault, Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns After the Method of the Ancients, trans. Indra Kagis McEwen (Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993), Week 7: March 8, 10 A National Architectural Taste Defined in Georgian England Research Proposal due Summerson, Excerpts from Lord Shaftesbury, Colen Campbell, and James Ralph in Caroline van Eck, ed., British Architectural Theory (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003), Historical Narratives of English National Identity Summerson, James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990), Week 8: March 15, 17 An International National Identity in Peter the Great s Russia Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russian Architecture and the West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), Midterm

4 Week 9: March 29, 31 Architectural Boundaries Challenged Wend von Kalnein, Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century, trans. David Britt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 73 92, Katie Scott, The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth Century Paris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy , vol. 3 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 9 17, Stylistic Reinterpretations in Rococo Germany Henry Russell Hitchcock, Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany (London: Phaidon, 1968), Week 10: April 5, 7 The Architecture of Dynastic Legitimacy in Bourbon Spain George Kubler, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), Transatlantic Authority and Exchange in the Spanish New World George Kubler, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), 69 82, Week 11: April 12, 14 Transportable Pattern Book Architecture in the British New World David Handlin, American Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2004), William Halfpenny, A New and Compleat System of Architecture (London, 1749), selections. Archaeological Travels of British Architects Summerson, Robert Adam, Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalato in Dalmatia (London, 1764), 1 4. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, On the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times, in Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette, trans. Caroline Beamish and David Britt (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2002), Week 12: April 21 Return to the Basics in Enlightenment France Optional Outline due for FAH 92 students, Required Rough Draft due for FAH 192 students Wend von Kalnein, Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century, trans. David Britt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), , , Etienne Louis Boullée, excerpt from Architecture, An Essay on Art, in From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the 19 th Century, ed. Elizabeth Holt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), Marc Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture, trans. Wolfgang and Anni Herrmann (Los Angeles: Hennessy & Ingalls, 1977), 1 22.

5 Week 13: April 26, 28 A New Political Language for A New American Nation David Handlin, American Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2004), A New Architecture of Industrialization Summerson, Barry Bergdoll, European Architecture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and Beautiful (London, 1794), Eugène Emmanuel Viollet le Duc, excerpts from Discourses on Architecture, in The Architectural Theory of Viollet le Duc: Readings and Commentary, ed. M. F. Hearn (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990), Week 14: May 3 A World of Architectural and Social Challenge Final Paper due Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd, Tales, Poems, Essays (London, 1952), Carl Rosenthal, In What Style Should We Build?, in In What Style Should We Build?, trans. Wolfgang Hermann (Santa Monica, 1992), **Take Home Final Exam due via on Monday, May 10 by midnight**