Meets the following requirements: AD HS HY

Nineteenth-century architecture was characterized by anachronistic borrowings from aristocratic societies of the past.  Radical architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries wished to change this by creating a new architecture expressive of a more democratic society with an informal life style.  In this course we study these crises and the buildings that resulted.  In the first four weeks we make a summary survey of colonial architecture and land use patterns that developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, then review H. H. Richardson and his naturalistic architecture.  We then proceed to the study of the Chicago school and the organic architecture of Louis Sullivan and F. L. Wright, and to Europe and the International Style of Le Courbusier and Mies van der Rohe.  Finally, we trace the evolution of the modernist aesthetic in the forties, fifties, and sixties and its realization in the development of the urban skyscraper.  The attempt in recent years by architects like Robert Venturi and Philip Johnson to create a historic context for new buildings in "post-modernism," in strong contradiction to earlier avowed rejections of historicism, concludes this course. 

Introductory.  Offered every third year.  Class size limited to 20.  *HS*  *HY*  *AD*