Monday Course Introduction and Overview
Jan 18 Assigned Reading: William Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, Ch. 1
Wednesday The Urban Landscape of the Late 19th Century and Advent of the
Jan 20 Skyscraper
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 2
Monday The Architecture of Nature: Art Deco and Art Nouveau in Continental
Jan 25 Europe
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 3
Wednesday The Architecture of the Machine: Antonio Sant’Elia and Italian Futurism
Jan 27 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 6; Antonio Sant’Elia and Tommaso Marinetti
“Futurist Architecture,” in Conrads, Programs and Manifestoes, pp. 34-38
Monday Avant-Garde Art Movements and New Architecture in Europe
Feb 1 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 9; De Stijl Manifesto in Conrads, Program and Manifestoes, pp. 39-40
Wednesday Modernism outside of Movements: Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S.
Feb 3 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 7
Monday Pure Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Revolution – Part one of Toward an
Feb 8 Architecture
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 10; Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture
Wednesday Le Corbusier, Toward a New Architecture, continued, and Le
Feb 10 Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 16; Le Corbusier, Toward a New Architecture
Monday Interiors and Exteriors: Bauhaus and German Expressionism
Feb 15 Slide Quiz #1
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 11; Conrads, Programs and Manifestoes, pp. 46-53; 69-70; 87-88
Wednesday Political Revolution and Constructivism in Russia
Feb 17 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 12
Monday Modernism outside the Manifesto: American Architecture in the
Feb 22 1920s and ‘30s
Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 13
Wednesday Fascism, Totalitarianism and the Ambiguity of Modernism
Feb 24 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 20
Monday Site Visit: Luigi Moretti’s Casa GIL in Trastevere
Feb 29 No assigned reading for today
Wednesday Midterm Exam
Mar 2
Friday MAKEUP DAY FOR APRIL 25
Mar 4 Site Visit: EUR District
No assigned reading for today
Monday The International Style I
Mar 7 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 15; R. Buckminster Fuller on Universal
Architecture in Conrads, Programs and Manifestoes, pp. 128-136.
Wednesday International Style II: The Protagonists
Mar 9 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Chs. 18-19
Monday European Architects in the U.S.
Mar 14 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 22
Wednesday Postwar Italy: The Art of Recuperation
Mar 16 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 26
Monday Institutional Identity and Modernism in the 1950s
Mar 21 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Chs. 28-29
Wednesday Pop Art and the Discovery of Postmodernism: Confronting Learning
Mar 23 from Las Vegas
Assigned Readings: Curtis, Ch. 30; Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas
March 28 - April 1 SPRING BREAK
Monday The Pluralism of the 1970s
Apr 4 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 32
Wednesday Academics and Architecture: Cultural Theory and Design
Apr 6 Assigned Reading: Mary McLeod, “Architecture and Politics in the Reagan
Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism,” and Dennis P. Doordan, “Changing Agendas:
Architecture and Politics in Contemporary Italy,” in Assemblage (February 1989), pp. 22-77.
Articles available to download via JSTOR
Monday Global Capital and Global Architecture
Apr 11 Assigned Reading: “Famous”: Special Issue on Architecture and Fame
Perspecta 37 (2005). Available for download via JSTOR
Wednesday CLASS MOVED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Apr 13
Friday Site visit to Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI and Renzo Piano’s Auditorium
Apr 15 Class meets on site at 11:00 a.m.
Monday Environment and Conservation: Ecology and Architecture
Apr 18 Assigned Reading: Curtis, Ch. 34
Wednesday Re-presenting the Past: Cultural Preservation and Contemporary
Apr 20 Architecture
Assigned Reading: Curtis Ch. 33
Monday NO CLASS- HOLIDAY
Apr 25
Wednesday Site visit: Richard Meier’s Ara Pacis Museum and Piazza Augusto
Apr 27 Imperatore
Class meets on site at 10:00 a.m.