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LEC #LECTURE TOPICsDISCUSSION TOPICsKEY DATES
1Constructing the Past

Exploring Forth and Digging Under
Buildings, Projects, Architects

John Soane - House and Museum, Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Carceri d'Invenzioni, The Bamiyan Buddhas, Afghanistan
2Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave TradeField trip to Mt. Auburn Cemetery
3Landscape

The Politics of Site
Buildings, Projects, Architects

Versailles, Stowe, Monticello
4Architecture and Industrialism, Part 1: The Ghosts of TechnologyBuildings, Projects, Architects

The Eiffel Tower, Pavilion d'Esprit Nouveau, The Statue of Liberty
5Architecture as OrnamentBuildings, Projects, Architects

William Morris - Red House, Auguste Perret - Rue Franklin Apartments, Adolf Loos - Villa Karma, Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona Pavilion, Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye
6Architecture and Industrialism, Part 2: Masses, Classes and RegionsBuildings, Projects, Architects

Ebenezer Howard - The Garden City, Toni Garnier - Cité Industrielle, Le Corbusier - Villa Contemporaine
7Domesticity

Gender in Space
Buildings, Projects, Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright - Frederick C. Robie House, Hanna House, Edgar J. Kaufmann House; Adolf Loos - Josephine Baker House
Exploration of topics for final paper
8Making of the Modernist Avant-Garde and the Operative HistorianBuildings, Projects, Architects

Wiesenhofsiedlung 1927, Examples from Nancy Troy's Book on de Stijl
9Body Talk

Body as Metaphor in Architecture
Buildings, Projects, Architects

Siegfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command
Finalization and presentation of paper topics
10Ludic Spaces

The Architecture of Play
Buildings, Projects, Architects

Paris Exposition Universelle 1989, Centre Pompidou, Coney Island
11Lines Across the City

Architecture and the State
Buildings, Projects, Architects

Hausmann's Paris, Vienna's Ringstrasse, Chandigarh
12Post-War Narratives of "Development"Buildings, Projects, Architects

Le Corbusier - Unité d'Habitation, Team X Projects
13Final LectureThe Story so Far - Discussion and Recap

 








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