Architecture in Europe, 1600 1800 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 117 Email: KCSkelton@aol.com 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 1530 1830 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 1750, 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), 3 19. 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 1560 1700, in Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relations Between the Southern and Northern Low Countries 1530 1700, eds. Krista De Jonge and Konrad Ottenheym (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 251 258. Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 1750, vol. 1 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1 17.
Week 2: February 1, 3 Propagandistic Design in France and Spain Blunt, 102 116, 127 139. Jesus Escobar, The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 190 221. International Courtly and Architectural Networks in Stuart England Readings: Summerson, 75 89, 103 128, 142 156. Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture (London, 1624), 1 22. Week 3: February 8, 10 Dutch Locality Redefined Internationally Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 49 69. Empiricism, Movement, and Political Argument Wittkower, 23 29, 39 74, 110 120. Francis Bacon, Preface to The Great Instauration, in New Atlantis and the Great Instauration, ed. Jerry Weinberger (Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1989), 7 17. Week 4: February 17, 18 Urban Narratives of Movement and Argument Wittkower, 33 38, 99 105. Christian Norberg Schulz, Baroque Architecture (New York: Phaidon, 2003), 19 32. 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, 173 224. Week 5: February 22, 24 The Leisured Traveller in the Country Blunt, 139 155. Summerson, 129 141. Alastair Fowler, The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth Century Estate Poems and Related Items (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), 176 178, 208 219, 302 305. James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990), 9 34. Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), 2 12.
Illusions of Scientific Precision by Wren and Guarini Summerson, 173 237. Christopher Wren, Tract I, in Wren s Tracts on Architecture and other Writings, ed. Lydia Soo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 153 157. Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 1750, vol. 3 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 29 37. Week 6: March 1, 3 Massive Materiality of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh Summerson, 251 286. John Vanbrugh, Mr Van Brugg s Proposals about Building ye New Churches, in Vanbrugh, by Kerry Downes (London: A. Zwemmer, 1977), 257 258. A National Architecture Codified in Louis XIV s France Blunt, 215 231, 241 250. 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), 47 63. Week 7: March 8, 10 A National Architectural Taste Defined in Georgian England Research Proposal due Summerson, 295 353. Excerpts from Lord Shaftesbury, Colen Campbell, and James Ralph in Caroline van Eck, ed., British Architectural Theory 1540 1750 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003), 227 236. Historical Narratives of English National Identity Summerson, 366 376. James Ackerman, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1990), 159 184. 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), 183 227.. Midterm
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, 102 128. Katie Scott, The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth Century Paris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 101 117. Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 1750, vol. 3 of 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 9 17, 37 46. Stylistic Reinterpretations in Rococo Germany Henry Russell Hitchcock, Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany (London: Phaidon, 1968), 175 225. 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 1500 1800 (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), 43 61. Transatlantic Authority and Exchange in the Spanish New World George Kubler, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions 1500 1800 (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1959), 69 82, 86 100. Week 11: April 12, 14 Transportable Pattern Book Architecture in the British New World David Handlin, American Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2004), 9 38. William Halfpenny, A New and Compleat System of Architecture (London, 1749), selections. Archaeological Travels of British Architects Summerson, 377 409. 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), 115 118. 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), 215 220, 225 239, 249 262. 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), 191 198. Marc Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture, trans. Wolfgang and Anni Herrmann (Los Angeles: Hennessy & Ingalls, 1977), 1 22.
Week 13: April 26, 28 A New Political Language for A New American Nation David Handlin, American Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2004), 39 69. A New Architecture of Industrialization Summerson, 447 470. Barry Bergdoll, European Architecture 1750 1890 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 73 85. Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and Beautiful (London, 1794), 25 49. 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), 231 265. 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), 105 112. Carl Rosenthal, In What Style Should We Build?, in In What Style Should We Build?, trans. Wolfgang Hermann (Santa Monica, 1992), 113 122. **Take Home Final Exam due via email on Monday, May 10 by midnight**