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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.
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• Week 9: Social Critique and Morality: Pugin, Ruskin, Morris
  1. 9.1 Pugin, Augustus W.N. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841, 1973), pp. 1-12, 50-60.
  2. 9.2 Ruskin, John. "Nature of Gothic," in The Stones of Venice (1851-3, 1989, 2000), pp. 157-190.
  3. 9.3 Morris, William. "Art & Society" (1883) and "The Worker's Share of Art" (1885) in News from Nowhere & Selected Writings, ed. A. Briggs, (1962, 1984), pp. 139-143. "Prospects of Architecture in Civilization" in Morris on Architecture, pp. 64-98.
  4. 9.4 Ruskin, John. "Lamp of Truth," and "Lamp of Memory," in Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849, 1989); skim whole book.
  5. 9.5 Pugin, Augustus W.N. Contrasts, intro. by H.R. Hitchcock (1836, 1840, 1960).
  6. 9.6 Pevsner, Nikolaus. "Theories of Art from Morris to Gropius," in Pioneers of Modern Design (1936), Ch.1= pp. 19-39.
  7. 9.7 Watkin, David. "Introduction," Morality and Architecture (1977), pp. 1-14; and skim "Pugin," pp. 17-23; excerpt in Jencks, Theories & Manifestoes (1997), pp. 174-175.
• Week 10: Structural Rationalism: Viollet, Durand, École
  1. 10.1 Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-E. Excerpts "Anticipating a Modern Architecture," Chs.5-9 in The Architectural Theory of Viollet-le-Duc, ed M. Fil Hearn (1990), pp. 169-253.
  2. 10.2 Hugo, Victor. "This Will Kill That," and "A Bird's-eye View of Paris" in Notre Dame de Paris (1831), Bk.III, Ch.2 Bk.V, Ch.2.
  3. 10.3 Frampton, Kenneth. "Greco Gothic and Neo Gothic: The Anglo French Origin of Tectonic Form," in Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), Ch.2 = pp. 29-59.
  4. 10.4 Banham, Reyner. "Predisposing Causes: Academic and Rationalist Writers," in Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960), pp. 14-34.
  5. 10.5 Entries on "Viollet-le-Duc" (by Middleton) and "Labrouste" (by D. Vanten) in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects.
  6. 10.6 Berdoll, Barry. "The Dictionnaire raisonné," in Foundations of Architecture (1990), pp. 1-30.
  7. 10.7 Levine, Neil. "The Book and the Building: Hugo's Theory of Architecture and Labrouste's Biblioteque Ste. Genevieve," in The Beaux-Arts and 19th-century French Architecture, ed. R. Middleton (1982) Ch.8 = pp. 138-173.
  8. 10.8 Bressani, Martin, and Grignon, Marc. "The Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve and 'Healing Architecture,'" in Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light Belier, Bergdoll, and LeCoouer, eds., (2012).
• Week 11: German Tectonics: Schinkel, Semper, Bötticher
  1. 11.1 Semper, Gottfried. The Four Elements of Architecture (1851, 1989), read pp. 101-112, 122-129, 254-257 (incl. footnotes); skim 113-121, 215-225, 240-243.
  2. 11.2 Bötticher, Karl. "The Principles of Hellenic & Germanic Way of Building," (1846) in In What style Should We Build?, ed. W. Herrmann (1992), pp. 147-166.
  3. 11.3. Frampton, Kenneth. "Rappel a l'ordre: the Case for the Tectonic," (1990) in Theorizing a new Agenda for Architecture, ed. Kate Nesbitt (1996), pp. 516-528.
  4. 11.4 Semper, Gottfried. "On Architectural Symbols," Res 9 (Spring 1985): 61-67.
  5. 11.5 Bötticher, Karl.   "Theories of Raiment," from Die Tektonik der Hellenen (1844), in Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and the Road to Modern Architecture , by Werner Oechslin (2002), pp. 188-197.
  6. 11.6 Herrmann, Wolfgang. "Semper's Position on Contemporary Architecture," in Gottfried Semper: In Search of Architecture (1984), pp. 153-164.
  7. 11.7 Bletter, Rosemarie H. "On Martin Fröhlich's Gottfried Semper," Oppositions 4 (Oct. 1974): 146-153.
  8. 11.8 Frampton, Kenneth. "Prospects for a Critical Regionalism" in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture Nesbitt, K., ed., (1996).
  9. 11.9 Sekler, Eduard. "Structure, Construction, Tectonics" in Structure in Art & Science Kepes, G., ed., (1965
• Week 12: Space, Empathy and Psychology: Schmarsow, Lipps
  1. 12.1 Schmarsow, August. "Essence of Architectural Creation," (1893), in Empathy, Form & Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, eds. Mallgrave & Ikonomou (1994), pp. 281-297.
  2. 12.2 Wölfflin, Heinrich. "Prolegomena to a Psychology of Architecture," (1886) in Empathy, Form & Space (1994), pp. 149-162 + skim 162-190.
  3. 12.3 Ven, Cornelius van de. "Ideas of Space in German Arch'l Theory," in Space in Architecture (1974, 1987), pp. 71-101.
  4. 12.4 Zucker, Paul, "The Paradox of Architectural Theory at the Begin of the Modern Movement," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 10:3 (Oct. 1951): 8-14.
  5. 12.5 Collins, Peter. "New Concepts of Space," in Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture (1965), Ch.24=pp. 285.
  6. 12.6 Vidler, Anthony. "Space, Time & Movement," in At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, ed. R. Ferguson (1998), pp. 101-125, esp. 101-105.
  7. 12.7 Review "Space," special issue of Daidalos 67 (Mar.1998), especially articles by Confurius, Arnheim, Köhler.
  8. 12.8 Mallgrave, H.F. "Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German Modernism," in Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, pp. 194-203.
  9. 12.8 Schumacher, Patrik. "Key Innovations: Place, Space, Field" in Autopoiesis of Architecture, pp. 411-433.
• Week 13: Modenrism
  1. 13.1 Conrads, Ulrich, ed. Programs & Manifestoes of 20thC Architecture (1970), includes:
     Loos, A. "Ornament & Crime" (1910, 1913), pp. 19-24
     de Stijl & Van Doesburg Manifestoes, (1918, 1923, 1924), pp. 39-40, 66-67, 78-80
     Le Corbusier, "Towards a New Architecture" & "Five Points (1923), pp. 59-62, 99-101
     Bauhaus & Gropius Manifestoes (1919, 1923), pp. 49-53, 95-97
     Anti-humanism, CIAM, ABC, H. Meyer (1928), pp. 109-120.
  2. 13.2 Harrison-Moore, Abigail, and Dorothy Rowe, excerpts from "Architecture for Tomorrow, 1910-2000," in Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 (2006) pp. 316-322 (O. Wagner); 355-367 (Loos, Futurism); 390-397 (Mendelsohn); 402-411 (van Doesburg & Le Corbusier). (E-reserve = pp. 316-414, also includes essays by P. Behrens, S. Giedion, W. Gropius, M. Brandt, L. Moholoy-Nagy, Mies van der Rohe).
  3. 13.3 Curtis, William. "Introduction," Modern Architecture since 1900, 3rd ed (1996), pp. 11-17.
  4. 13.4 Heynen, Hilde. "Architecture Facing Modernity," Architecture & Modernity: A Critique (1999), pp. 9-22.
  5. 13.5 Giedion, Sigfried. "The New Space Conception," excerpt from Space, Time & Architecture, 3rd ed. (1956), pp. 426-444.
  6. 13.6 Ockman, Joan. "Introduction," in Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology (1993), pp. 13-24.
  7. 13.7 Goldhagen & Legault, "Introduction: Critical Themes of Postwar Modernism" in Anxious Modernisms.
  8. 13.8 Giedion, Sigfried, J.L. Sert and F. Leger. "Nine Points on Monumentality," (1943) in Architecture Culture 1943-1968, (1993), pp. 27-30.
  9. 13.9 Kahn, Louis. "Monumentality," (1944) in Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (1993), pp. 47-54.
  10. 13.10 Kahn. "Order Is," and other excerpts (1955, 1957, 1960, 1972) from Louis I. Kahn. Writings, Lectures, Interviews (1986), pp. 58-59, 102-103, 285-290; from America Builds, ed. L. Roth (1983), pp. 574-77; and from Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (1993), pp. 270-272.
  11. 13.11 Hudnut, J. "The Postmodern House," (1945) in Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (1993), p. 70-76.
  12. 13.12 Van Eyck, Aldo. "Steps Towards a Configurative Discipline," (1945) in Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (1993), p. 347-360.
  13. 13.13 Johnson, Philip. "Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture," (1954) abridged in Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, ed. Charles Jencks (2006), pp. 208-210. Full essay in Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (1993), pp. 189-192; and in America Builds, ed. L. Roth (1983), pp. 581-584.
  14. 13.14 Jacobus, J.M. Twentieth Century Architecture: the Middle Years 1940-1965 (1966).
  15. 13.15 Smithson, Alison M. Team 10 Primer (1968).
  16. 13.16 Zevi, Bruno. Towards an Organic Architecture (1950).
  17. 13.17 Goldhagen, S.W. "Coda: Reconceptualizing the Modern" in Anxious Modernisms.
  18. 13.18 Rowe, C. "Transparency," Part I and Part II.
• Week 14: Postmodernism and Critique
  1. 14.1 Jencks, C. "The Postmodern Agenda" in The Postmodern Reader (1992), pp. 10-39; see also Jencks, The Language of Postmodern Architecture (1977 and many editions), exerpt in Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968.
  2. 14.2 Klotz, H. "Postmodern Architecture," exerpt from Klotz, The History of Postmodern Architecture (1984) in Jencks, The Postmodern Reader 1992) pp. 234-248.
  3. 14.3 Frampton, "The Isms of Contemporary Architecture," in Drexler, ed. Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1982), pp. 60-83. See also Frampton, Modern Architecture, A Critical History (1980).
  4. 14.4 Venturi, R. Complexity & Contradiction in Architecture (NY: MoMA, 1966).
  5. 14.5 Venturi, Scott Brown, & Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (1972; MS 1968).
  6. 14.6 Rowe, C., "Introduction," in Five Architects (1972), pp. 3-8.
  7. 14.7 Rossi, A. The Architecture of the City (1966).
  8. 14.8 Lyotard, J.F. "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?" from The Postmodern Condition (1979, 1984), excerpted in Jencks, ed. The Postmodern Reader (1992), pp. 138-150; and in Mallgrave, vol.2.
  9. 14.9 Portoghesi, ed. The Presence of the Past. Venice Biennale. Architecture (1980), essays by Portoghesi, Scully, Norberg-Schulz & Jencks.
  10. 14.10 Tafuri, M. "L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Langage," Oppositions (1974); from Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968, pp. 146-173. See also "Towards a Critique of Ideology," Contropiano (1969), in Hays, Architecture Theory Since 1968 pp. 2-35; and Tafuri, Architecture & Utopia (1973).
• Week 15: Contemporary Theory
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