fall 2007
ARC 318L:
History of Architecture Survey II: 1200-1880
Instructor:
Richard Cleary
Prerequisites: Students not in the School of Architecture must have completed ARC 318K.
Instructor contact information: Sutton Hall 4.122; telephone 471-6165; email cleary@mail.utexas.edu: MW 11-12, TTh 12:30-1:30, and by appointment.
Description
This is the second course in the School of Architecture's three-part introduction to the history of architecture. It offers a global perspective of buildings, their settings, and the dissemination of ideas about architecture from the 13th to the late-19th century. Particular attention is given the relationships of architectural expression, meaning, and building technology and to issues that arise when architectural traditions of one culture are imposed upon or otherwise adapted by another.
Educational Objectives
Establish chronological and thematic frameworks upon which more advanced study of architecture may be based
Develop skills of description and analysis
Develop skills for research in architectural history
Evaluation
Grades will be based on mid-term and final examinations, a series of short written assignments on directed topics, and a research project. Regular attendance at the lectures and sectional meetings is expected and will play a factor in determining borderline grades.
Texts
Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (New York: Oxford University Press). Any edition.
Dora P. Crouch and June G. Johnson, Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).