Readings Lists |
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Please check the weekly reading assignment sheets above to determine exact assignments and page numbers, and to distinguish between "required" and "optional" readings.
* Readings Lists from Fall 2013
Online Readings |
- Week 1: Introduction: What is Theory?
- 1.1 Gelernter, Mark. Sources of Architectural Form (1995), Ch.1, pp. 1-18.
- 1.2 Nesbitt, Kate. "What is theory?", Theorizing a new agenda for architecture: an anthology of architectural theory 1965-1995 (1996), intro., pp. 16-21
- 1.3 Hearn, Fil. Ideas that Shape Buildings (MS) preface, pp. 5-6
- 1.4 Speaks, Michael, "After Theory," Architectural Record (June 2005): 72-75.
- 1.5 Baird, G. "Criticality and its Discontents," Harvard Design Magazine, n.21 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005): 1-6.
- 1.6 Sykes, A.K. “Introduction,” Constructing a New Agenda for Architectural Theory 1993-2009 (2010), pp. 14-25.
- 1.7 Johnson, P.A. The theory of architecture: concepts, themes, and practices (1994), pp. 30-1.
- 1.8 Linder, Mark. "Architectural Theory is no Discipline," in Strategies in Arch'l Thinking, eds. Whiteman, Kipnis, Burdett (1992), pp. 167-8.
- 1.9 Stephens, S. "Assessing the State of Architectural Criticism," Architectural Record 3 (1996): 64-69.
- 1.10 Speaks, M. "How the New Economy is Transforming Theory and Practice," Architectural Record 12 (2000): 74-77.
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1.11 Lavin, S. "Uses and Abuses of Theory," Progressive Architecture 8 (1990): 113-144;
also, rebuttals by J. Kipnis and K.M. Hays, Progressive Architecture 11 (1990): 98-99. - 1.12 Kruft, Introduction to A History of Architectural Theory, pp. 13-19.
- 1.13 Puglisi, L.P. "Theory Meltdown Chart," AD: 13-15.
- 1.14 Landsmark, Ted, and Vidler, Anthony. "A New Theory War?" Architect (May 2011).
- 1.15 Ockman, Joan. "Between Utopias and Ideologies," in Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies: A Conference at Yale School of Architecture, ed. C. Davidson (2005), pp. 9-15.
- 1.16 Wigley, “Flash Theory,” in J. Graham, 2000+ The Urgencies of Arch’l Theory (2015), pp.264-281.
- 1.17 Speaks, “Intelligence After Theory,” Perspecta 38 (2006) pp.101-6
- 1.18 Speaks, Michael, "After Theory," Architectural Record (June 2005): 72-75; also the responses in "Letters," Architectural Record (Aug. 2005): 19.
- Week 2: Vitruvius and Ancient Orders
- 2.1 Vitruvius, “Ten Books of Architecture” (Morgan translation, 1914)
- 2.2 Minor, V.H. "Ancient Theory," in Art History's History (1994), Ch.1 = pp. 31-46. (N380 .M556)
- 2.3 Smith, T.G. Introduction, to Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture (2003).
- 2.4 Vitruvius, (ed. Thomas Gordon Smith), Ten Books on Architecture , Bk. 1 Chapters 1-3, in Vitruvius on Architecture (2003), pp. 61-73.
- 2.5 Eisenman, P. "The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End," pp. 524-537.
- 2.6 Schumacher, Patrik. Intro to The Autopoiesis of Architecture
- 2.7 Onians, J. “Vitruvius,” Ch.3 in Bearers of Meaning: the Classical Orders (1988) pp.33-40.
- 2.8 Hersey. G. The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture (1988), pp.1-10, 149-156
- 2.9 Picon, A. “Parametricism Tries to Reconnect with Vitruvius,” Log 23 (Fall 2011) pp.53-57.
- 2.10 Tzonis, A. & L. Lefaivre. Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order (1986) pp.1-6, as well as pp.9-18, 35-37, 117-119, 273-276.
- Week 3: Gothic and Renaissance Ideals of Classicism
- 3.1 Jantzen, H. "Ecclesia Spiritualis," High Gothic (1962), Pt.II = pp. 169-81.
- 3.2 Von Simson, O. "Gothic Form," Gothic Cathedral: origins of Gothic Arch. & Medieval Concept of Order (1956), Pt.I:1 = pp. 3-20.
- 3.3. Comparative Table of Contents of treaties by Vitruvius, Alberti & Palladio.
- 3.4 Wittkower, Rudolf. "Principles of Palladio's Architecture," Part 3 in Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949); also skim Pt.2.
- 3.5 Rowe, Colin. "Mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio & Le Corbusier Compared," in Architectural Review v.101 (Mar. 1947), republished in Rowe, Mathematics of the Ideal Villa (1976), pp. 2-21.
- 3.6 Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture = I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (1570) transl. by Tavenor (1997) (ebook). Also, excerpts.
- 3.7 Alberti, L.B., Ten Books on Architecture = On the Art of Building = De Re aedificatoria (c. 1470) transl. by Leoni (1755) (ebook). Also, excerpts.
- 3.8 Hart, V. Introduction to Paper Palaces, pp. 1-29.
- 3.9 Borsi, F. "The De Re Aedifictoria," in Leon Battista Alberti: The Complete Works, pp. 221-243.
- 3.10 Tavernor, R. "Palladio's 'Corpus': I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura," in Paper Palaces, pp. 233-246.
- 3.11 Burns, H. "Between the lines: Palladio's project and Palladio's drawings," in Palladio and His Legacy: a Transatlantic Journey, pp. 8-19.
- 3.12 Loth, C. "Palladio's legacy to America," in Palladio and His Legacy: a Transatlantic Journey, pp. 142-151.
- 3.13 H.F. Mallgrave, ed. “Classicism & Renaissance”, readings in Architectural Theory: Vol.1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (2006), pp.15-56.
- Week 4: Baroque and Modern Expressions
- 4.1 H.F. Mallgrave, Architectural Theory: Vol.1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (2006), pp.48-55, 57-117, 223-248. (Focus especially on readings #29,31,32,34,35,37,39,40,92,94,99,100).
- 4.2 Perrault, Claude. Ordonnance of the Five Kinds of Columns After the Method of the Ancients, ed. A. Picon (1683, 1993), pp. 47-63.
- 4.3 Wölfflin, Heinrich. Renaissance and Baroque (1888, 1964), pp. 15-17, 71-88.
- 4.4 Deleuze, G. & J. Strauss, “The Fold,” in Yale French Studies n.80 (1991), pp.227- 247.
- 4.5 Speaks, M. “Folding Toward a New Architecture,” in B. Cache, Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories (1995) pp.xiii-xix.
- 4.6 Carpo, M. “Ten Years of Folding,” in Folding in Architecture rev. ed. (2004) pp.14-19
- 4.7 Hersey, George. Introduction to Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque," (2002).
- 4.8 Gargus, J. “Guarino Guarini: Geometrical Transformation and the Invention of New Architectural Meanings,” in The Making of Architecture = Harvard Architecure Review, n.7 (1989), pp.116-131.
- 4.9 McQuillan, James. "From Blondel to Blondel: On the Decline of the Vitruvian Treatise," in Paper Palaces, pp. 338-357.
- 4.10 Gelernter, Sources of Architectural Form, Ch.5 "Baroque".
- 4.11 Kruft, H.W. “Counter-Reformation, Baroque & Neoclassicism,” Ch.8 in A History of Arch’l Theory (1994)
- 4.12 Kruft, H.W. “Foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the Subsequent Challenge to It,” Ch.12 in A History of Arch’l Theory (1994).
- 4.13 Lambert, G. Excerpts from The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (2004), pp.1-9, 17-21, 39-42
- 4.14 Nero, Irene. “The Guggenheim Bilbao.” In Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art, ed. Kelly A. Wacker (2007): pp. 189- 212.
- 4.15 Van Beek, Martijn. "The Limits of Infinity: Sigfried Giedion and the Evolution of the Reception of Guarino Guarini" OASE 86 (2011)
- 4.16 Leach, "On Moretti: Last of the Moderns" OASE 86 (2011)
- Week 5: Enlightenment Neoclassicism and the Greek Ideal
- 5.1 Laugier, Marc-Antoine. An Essay on Architecture (= Essai sur l'architecture), ed. W. Herrmann (1753, 1977), pp. 1-15, 22-23, 25-26, 32-33, 38-41, 61-62, 68-69, 81-82, 90-91, 100-101, 151-153.
- 5.2 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. "Thoughts on Architecture" (= Parere su l'architettura), Oppositions 26 (Spring 1984): 5-25.
- 5.3 Frampton, Kenneth. "Introduction," & "Cultural Transformations: Neo-Classical Architecture 1750-1900," in Modern Architecture: A Critical History 3 rd ed. (1992) Ch.1 = pp. 8-19.
- 5.4 H.F. Mallgrave, ed. “Neoclassicism & Enlightenment,” readings in Architectural Theory: Vol.1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (2006), 123-190.
- 5.5 Winckelmann, Johann J. Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Paiting and Sculpture (= Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke) (1755, 1987), pp. 3-25.
- 5.6 Kisacky, Jeanne. "History and Science: Julie-David Leroy's Dualistic Method of Arch'l History," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60:3 (Sept. 2001): 260-283.
- 5.7 Eisenman, P. et al. “Piranesi & the City,” and “Architects’ Statements,” in Lawrence, ed. Piranesi as Designer (2007) pp.301-328.
- 5.7 Ameri, Amir. “On the Exorcise of Theory,” Architectural Theory Review 4 (1999)
- 5.9 Bergdoll, "Archaeology vs. History: Heinrich Hũbsch’s Critique of Neoclassicism."
- 5.10 Foucart, Bruno "The modernity of the neo-greeks," in Paris, Rome, Greece: Travels by French Architects in the 19th & 20th Centuries (1982) pp. 48-60.
- 5.11 Kirk, Terry. "Piranesi's Poetic License: His Influence on Modern Italian Architecture," in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 4, Serpent and Stylus: Essays on Piranesi (2006), pp. 239-274
- 5.12 Armstrong, C.D. “Positioning LeRoy,” in Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History (2012) pp.1-18
- 5.13 Frampton, Kenneth. "Introduction," & "Cultural Transformations: Neo-Classical Architecture 1750-1900," in Modern Architecture: A Critical History 3 rd ed. (1992) Ch.1 = pp. 8-19.
- Week 6: Character and Revolutionary Architects
- 6.1 Boullée, Étienne-Louis. Architecture, Essay on Art (= Essai sur l'art) (1794), in H. Rosenau, Boullée & visionary architecture : including Boullée's "Architecture, essay on art" (1976) pp. 82-94, skim 109-116.
- 6.2 Patterson, Richard. "Three Revolutionary Architects," in Architecture and the Sites of History , eds. Borden & Dunster (1995), pp. 149-162.
- 6.3 Kaufmann, E. “Three Revolutionary Architects” in Transactions of American Philosophical Society n.42/43 (1952): pp.433-564
- 6.4 Le Camus de Mézières, Nicolas. The Genius of Architecture (= Génie de l'architecture), ed. R. Middleton (1780, 1992) pp. 69-79, 87-92.
- 6.5 Middleton, R. Excerpt from “Introduction,” to N. Le Camus de Mézières, The Genius of Architecture = Génie de l’architecture, ed. Middleton (1780, 1992), pp.17-31; then skim Le Camus’ book, pp. pp.69-79, 87-92
- 6.6 Boffrand, “Principles of Architecture Derived from Horace’s Art of Poetry,” in Book of Architecture = Livres d’architecture (1759, 2002), pp.8-12.
- 6.7 Van Eck, C. Excerpt from “Introduction,” in Boffrand, Book of Architecture = Livres d’architecture (1759, 2002) pp.xviii-xxiii;
- 6.8 Quatremère de Quincy, “Character,” in Dictionnaire d’architecture, translated in S. Younes, ed. The True, The Fictive and the Real. The Historical Dictionary of Architecture of Quatremere de Quincy (1999) pp.103-111
- 6.9 Di Palma, V. “Architecture, Environment and Emotion: Quatremère de Quincy and the Concept of Character,” AA Files n.47 (2002) pp.45-56;
- 6.10 Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas. Excerpts from Architecture Considered in Relation to Arts, Mores, and Legislation (1804, 1961); transl. in Holt, pp. 227-242, 418-419.
- 6.11 Vidler, A. Chs.1,5,13 in Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Arch. & Utopia in the Era of French Revolution(2005) pp.15-19, 67-73, 145-51.
- 6.12 Forty, A. “Character” in Words & Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (2000) pp.120-31
- 6.13 Mertins, Detlef. “System and Freedom: Sigfried Giedion, Emil Kaufmann, and the Constitution of Architectural Modernity,” in Autonomy and Ideology. Positioning the Avant garde in America, ed. R. Somol (1997) pp.212-231
- 6.14 Vidler, Anthony. “The Ledoux Effect: Emil Kaufmann and the Claims of Kantian Autonomy,” Perspecta v.33 (2002): 16-29
- 6.15 H.F. Mallgrave, Architectural Theory: Vol.1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (2006), pp. 190-221
- 6.16 Pelletier, L. “Introduction,” and “Architecture as an Expressive Language,” in Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture (2006) pp.1-24
- Week 7: Picturesque Theory and The Sublime
- 7.1 Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1756, 1958), Pt.II = pp. 57-87, skim Pt.IV. Also as e-book.
- 7.2 Goethe, Wolfgang v. "On German Architecture," and "On Gothic Architecture," in Goethe, Essays on Art & Literature, ed. J. Geary (1986), pp. 3-14; also in Goethe on Art, ed. J. Gage (1772, 1822, 1980), pp. 103-112; also in Holt, vol.2, 360-70.
- 7.3 H.F. Mallgrave, Architectural Theory: Vol.1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (2006), pp.221-330, pp.362-394.
- 7.4 Forty, Adrian. "Common Sense and the Picturesque," in Architecture and the Sites of History , eds. Borden & Dunster (1995), pp. 176-186.
- 7.5 Robinson, S. “Prologue” & “Mixture,” in Inquiry into the Picturesque (1991) pp.xi-27
- 7.6 Spuybroek, L. “Radical Picturesque,” in The Architecture of Variation (2009), pp.34-39; expanded version in Spuybroek, The Sympathy of Things. Ruskin and the Ecology of Design (2011) pp.207-268.
- 7.7 Pevsner, N. “In Defence of the Picturesque,” Architectural Review (1954)
- 7.8 Collins, P. “Influence of the Picturesque” in Changing Ideal in Modern Architecture (1965) pp.42-58
- 7.9 Freyssinet, Eugene. "On the Sublime," intro. by A. Saint, in arq 5:3 (2001): 249-53.
- 7.10 Pevsner, Nikolaus. Visual Planning and the Picturesque (2010).
- Week 8: Type
- 8.1 Quatremère de Quincy, A.-C. "Type" from Dictionary of Architecture (= Dictionnaire d'architecture), vol. 3 in Encyclopédie Méthodique (1825), translated in Oppositions 4 (1977): 147-150.
- 8.2 Durand, Jean-Nicolas L. Precis of the Lectures on Architecture (= Précis des leçons d'architecture), intro. A. Picon (1819, 1981, 2000), skim plates = pp. 211-313. Excerpt in Holt, From the Classicists to the Impressionists (1966), pp. 202-212.
- 8.3 Quatremère de Quincy, A.-C. "Architecture" from Dictionary of Architecture (= Dictionnaire d'architecture), vol. 1 in Encyclopédie Méthodique (1788), translated in 9H 7 (1985): 25-31.
- 8.4 Vidler, Anthony. "From the Hut to the Temple: Quatremère and the idea of Type," in Writing of the Walls (1987), pp. 147-164.
- 8.5 Bandini, Micha,"Typological Theories in Architectural Design," in Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, Louw & Farmer,eds.(1993), pp. 387-395.
- 8.6 Pfammatter, Ulrich. "Durand's Polytechnical Principles of Architectural Education," in The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer (2000), pp. 53-67.
- 8.7 Madrazo, Leandro. "Durand and the Science of Architecture," Journal of Architectural Education 48, 1 (Sept. 1994): 12-24.
- 8.8 Colquhoun, Alan. "Typology & Design Method," in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, ed. K. Nesbitt, pp. 248-257.
- 8.9 Moneo, Rafael. "On Typology," Oppositions, no. 13 (Summer 1978): 22-45.
- 8.10 Oechslin, Werner. "Premises for the Resumption of the discussion of Typology," Assemblage 1 (1986): 36-53.
- 8.11 Forty, Adrian. "Type," in Words & Buildings: A Vocabulary of Mod. Arch. (2000).