Architecture 136: History of Architecture II
Spring 2009

Instructor

Carl Chapman
(202) 297-4341

Location: Koubek Auditoium: M, W, 10:10 - 11:00 AM
(Friday seminar session times and locations vary)

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• Course syllabus, including class policies and rules
• Course overview and schedule, lecture schedule and weekly reading assignements
• Building list
• Review (first three lectures)
• National Cathedral field trip: Wed Feb 18th
• Assignments:
  • Recitation -- discussion leadership requirements
• Term Project:
  • Facade Comparison -- Project Description
  • Student Work (slides in progress)
• Midterm:
  • Midterm Exam -- Slides
  • Midterm Exam -- Answers
  • Midterm Exam -- Vocabulary List
• Final:
  • Building List FOR FINAL
  • FINAL Study Guide
  • Final Exam Slides
• Lectures:
  • Lecture 01: Roman Legacy
  • Lecture 02: Early Christian and Byzantine
  • Lecture 03: Early Islamic / Moorish
  • Lecture 04: Carolingian / Ottonian / German Romanesque
  • Lecture 05: High Romanesque / Developments in France
  • Lecture 06: Romanesque in Italy
  • Lecture 07: Norman Romanesque / Development of the Gothic
  • Lecture 08: High Gothic: Chartres / Reims / Amiens
  • Lecture 09: Late Gothic / Rayonnant Style
  • Lecture 10: Late Islamic Spain / Seljuk, Safavid Iran
  • Lecture 11: Renaissance Roots: Late Medieval Florence / Brunelleschi's Dome
  • Lecture 12: Early Renaissance: Brunelleschi / Alberti
  • Lecture 13: High Renaissance: Bramante and the Ideal Centralized Church
  • Lecture 14: Michelangelo's Architecture
  • Lecture 15: Renaissance Mannerism
  • Lecture 16: Palladio / Palladianism
  • Lecture 17: New World: Aztec / Maya / Inca / Native American
  • Lecture 18: Baroque Rome / Bernini and St Peters
  • Lecture 19: Baroque Space / Borromini / Guarini / Juvarra
  • Lecture 20: French Classicism: 17th / 18th Century
  • Lecture 21: Late Baroque and Rococo
  • Lecture 22: French Neo-Classicism: Laugier / Soufflot / Ledoux / Boullee

Course Description - ARCH136 History of Architecture II (3 cr.) Lecture/Discussion
This course is the second in a three-semester series that covers prehistoric architecture to the modern era. In this course, we will concentrate on the period of the Middle Ages through the end of the Eighteenth Century. Architectural examples will be discussed in relationship to design principles and building construction materials and methods. Specific architectural examples will be studied in terms of site, spatial sequence, structure, detail, symbolism and cultural meaning. The course will also examine social and cultural issues related to the buildings and monuments of this period.

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