Department of Architecture University of Washington Spring Quarter 2017 M-W-F: 10:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m., Kane Hall 110 Instructor: Professor Jeffrey Karl Ochsner 170C Architecture Hall jochsner@uw.edu Office Hours: Friday 11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. (or by appointment) Teaching/Graduate Assistants Office Location: Architecture Hall 180: Kelly Daviduke Office hours: Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. (or by appointment) E-mail: kvarney@uw.edu Chris Hall Office hours: Monday, 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. (or by appointment) E-mail: chrshll@uw.edu Vy Nguyen Office hours: Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. (or by appointment) E-mail: vynguyen@uw.edu Office Location: Gould Hall 402: Mia Ho, Graduate Section TA Office hours: Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. (or by appointment) E-mail: mho2015@uw.edu Students are encouraged to visit the assistants and the instructor. If official office hours are inconvenient, please make individual appointments. Note: Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, and similar devices during this class. Laptops may be used to take notes, but please set speaker on silent position. You may make audio recordings of the lectures as long as your recorder is silent. Class will begin and end on time.
2 Course Description This course presents a survey of architecture from 1750 to about 1995. Emphasis is placed on the development of the architecture of this period including significant buildings and projects, important theories and critical writings. Architecture 352 is not an introductory level course. Familiarity with architectural terminology will be expected. Students seeking introductory level courses should consider taking the Architecture 150-151 series. Architecture 352 is the third course in the Architecture 350-351-352 series. Knowledge of material covered in Architecture 350 and 351 is expected of those enrolled in Architecture 352. Format The course format is a series of lectures illustrated with PowerPoint images. Two mid-term exams (one in-class and one take-home) and one final exam will be given. Two quizzes will also be given. Primary Course Texts Ingersoll and Kostof, World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History (2013), approximately pages 585-956, with a focus on the specific pages in the daily assignments in the course guide. William J.R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900 Third Edition (1996), selected pages as indicated on daily assignments in the course guide. [Note: Sylvan Barnet's A Short Guide to Writing about Art (latest edition), a guide to writing about art and architecture, may be helpful for the compare/contrast questions on the midterm exam and the final exam.] Image Lists and Web Site The complete slide lists for all lectures for this course will be found on the course website under "Study Aids" at: http://courses.be.washington.edu/arch/352. A link to images shown in this class can be found on the course website at: http://courses.be.washington.edu/arch/352 Alternatively, the images can be found by directly accessing the Digital Image Database of the Visual Resources Collection of the College of Architecture & Urban Planning.
3 Department of Architecture/University of Washington Audio and Video Taping UW no longer offers convenient audio-taping of classes. Students may record lectures on audio recording devices (as long as these devices are silent and do not disturb others). Lectures will be recorded by the UW system, Panopto, and these will be accessible through Canvas. (However, lectures will not be live-streamed.) Please Note: Research shows that retention of material is better and performance in art history and architecture history courses is better for students who actually attend the lectures. Course Requirements The course will require completion of two in-class quizzes, an in-class mid-term exam, a take-home midterm exam, and a scheduled final exam. To even out the work load for the course, the mid-term exam (worth 25% of the grade) has been scheduled for Monday 24 April; the take-home (worth 25% of the grade) will be due Friday 5 May; The final exam (worth 40% of the grade) will take place during Finals Week (Monday 5 June, 8:30 to 10:20 a.m.--verify). The mid-term exam will cover material from 27 March through 21 April. The final exam may draw on material from the first part of the course, but will focus primarily on the material from 21 April to the end of the course. Short (10-15 minute) quizzes will be given in class on 10 April and 19 May. (The total value of the quizzes together is 10% of the course grade.) The in-class midterm and scheduled final exams will be typical architectural history exams and will include slide identifications (for major works) and essays (closed book, closed notes). In addition, slide comparisons, short definitions and the like may also be requested. The take-home midterm will involve essay questions only. It will be an open book, open notes exam. Review Sessions Review sessions sponsored by CLUE (UW Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment) are offered prior to the In-class Midterm Exam, the Take-home Midterm Exam, and the Final Exam. These review sessions do not offer comprehensive review of course content, but do offer suggestions regarding how to address exam questions. The CLUE Sessions are on the following dates: Wednesday April 19, Wednesday April 26, and Wednesday May 31. All CLUE sessions are at 6:30 p.m. in Mary Gates Hall, Room 241.
4 Supplemental Texts/Additional Readings The following supplemental texts are recommended for further exploration. They have been placed on reserve in the Built Environments Library in Gould Hall. Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Hyman, Isabelle, Architecture from Prehistory to Post-Modernism/The Western Tradition, 2nd Edition. New York, 2002 (for Arch 352, see pages 375-581); (this book was used as basic textbook in this course until about 2014). Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, 3rd ed., New York, 1992 (good text for years 1890-1980, emphasizing theory as well as built work) Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture, 1851-1945, New York, 1983 (good summary essays; generally good building-by-building text; excellent images) Cohen, Jean-Louis, The Future of Architecture Since 1889, New York, 2012 (extraordinarily broad and detailed coverage of twentieth century architecture) Colquhoun, Alan, Modern Architecture, Oxford and New York, 2002 (very good coverage of period 1890-1970 incorporating recent scholarship; less triumphalist than earlier accounts) Bergdoll, Barry, European Architecture, 1750-1890, Oxford and New York, 2000 (good treatment of late 18th and 19th century architecture, including recent scholarship) Middleton, Robin, Neoclassical and Nineteenth Century Architecture, New York, 1980 (good presentation of late 18th and 19th century architecture, less theoretical than Bergdoll) Mignot, Claude, Architecture of the Nineteenth Century in Europe, New York, 1984 (text varies in quality; especially good for images) Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Architecture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 4th edition, New York, 1987 (thorough but dense text; influenced by Hitchcock's Modernist bias) Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Meaning in Western Architecture, New York, 1975 (a survey based on an examination of architecture as a symbolic means to bring order and significance for human existence in the physical world) Banham, Reyner, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, New York, 1967 (influenced by Banham's biases, but a good overview of theory in the Modern Movement) Braham, Allan, Architecture of the French Enlightenment, London, 1980 (good summary of French architecture from approx. 1725 to 1825) Collins, Peter, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950, Montreal, 1998 (interesting summary of influences on architectural theory over the modern period) Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture, 1607-1976, Cambridge, MA, 1981 (generally good survey text of American architecture only) In addition, the weekly building/project booklet with slides/buildings for each lecture will have additional references, such that any student seeking to explore any particular subject in more detail will have a useful starting point in the suggested readings. Note: Wikipedia is often very unreliable for architectural topics.
5 TENTATIVE 2017 SCHEDULE (Subject to Change) 27 March Lecture #1: Introduction; the problem of "Modern Architecture" 29 March Lecture #2: The Emergence of Neoclassicism 31 March Lecture #3: The French Enlightenment; Boullee and Ledoux 03 April Lecture #4: Variations on Neoclassicism; Soane, Schinkel 05 April Lecture #5: Romanticism and the early Gothic Revival 07 April Lecture #6: The Spread and Breakdown of Neoclassicism 10 April Lecture #7: In What Style Shall We Build? QUIZ 12 April Lecture #8: H. H. Richardson 14 April Lecture #9: New Domestic Architecture: England and America 17 April Lecture #10: 19th Century Technological Developments 19 April Lecture #11: The Tall Building; Chicago and elsewhere 21 April Lecture #12: Frank Lloyd Wright to 1914 24 April IN-CLASS MID-TERM EXAM 26 April Lecture #13: The Eclectic Era, America and Elsewhere, 1880-1925 28 April Lecture #14: Art Nouveau: Horta and Guimard; Mackintosh; Gaudi 01 May Lecture #15: Vienna: The Testing Ground of Modernism 03 May Lecture #16: Continental Directions, 1900-1914 05 May Lecture #17: A New Aesthetic: Futurism, de Stijl, Constructivism TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM DUE 08 May Lecture #18: The Triumph of Neue Sachlichkeit, The Bauhaus 10 May Lecture #19: Searching for Modernism: Mies, LeCorbusier 12 May Lecture #20: The Modern Movement Coalesces 15 May Lecture #21: From Tradition to Modernity 17 May Lecture #22: Spread of Modernism, 1920s to 1940s 19 May Lecture #23: Modernism Comes to America, 1920 to 1942 QUIZ 22 May Lecture #24: The Post-War Period: Modernism and Corporate America 24 May Lecture #25: The Variety of Post-War Modernism 26 May Lecture #26: The Problem of Monumentality, 1945-1975 29 May HOLIDAY: NO CLASS 31 May Lecture #27: The Search for Meaning: Postmodernism and Alternatives 02 June Lecture #28: Modernism, Technology, Place 5-9 June FINALS WEEK: FINAL EXAM as scheduled by University of Washington Monday 5 June, 8:30 to 10:20 a.m. [verify at: http://www.washington.edu/students/reg/s2017exam.html]