ARC 368R/388R
Frank Lloyd Wright: Work and Ideas

Instructor: Dr. Anthony Alofsin
Time and Location: Tuesday 2:00-5:00 WMB 4.118
Unique Number: 00746 / 00935

COURSE NUMBER MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT WHEN THE TOPICS VARY. PREREQUISITE: FOR ARCHITECTURE MAJORS, ARC 318L AND 328; FOR NONMAJORS, UPPER-DIVISION STANDING AND CONSENT OF INSTRUCTOR. MEETS WITH ARC 388R. GRADUATE STANDING REQUIRED. COURSE NUMBER MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT WHEN THE TOPICS VARY. MEETS WITH ARC 368R.

Prerequisites:
For GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE students who have completed, at minimum, a series of survey courses in the history of architecture, or equivalent preparation.

Course Format:
This seminar with lectures will focus on the relationship of Frank Lloyd Wright's work and the emergence of Modernism from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Students will obtain a familiarity with Wright's work and a synthetic definition of architectural modernism. Ongoing research by the students and the instructor as well as assigned readings will form the basic of class discussion. The course concludes with student presentations based on systematic research of a significant building or project by Wright. Topics will be approved by the instructor, and a bibliography of each topic will be formulated through individual tutorials during office hours.

Educational Objective:
The course intends to present a monographic, analytical approach to the work of a major cultural figure and the phenomenon of modernism; to develop the student's ability to pursue primary research; to develop a method of investigation that has general applicability; and to familiarize the student with principles of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Evaluation:
Grades will be based on participation in class discussion and a mid-term exam (one-third); presentation of research (one-third); and a final paper that documents the presentation (one-third).

Texts:
Texts readings will be on library reserve. Recommended, but not required, for purchase: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials.
Grant C. Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age.
William Allin Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright 2nd. ed.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dover, 1983
_____________, The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dover, 1982.
_____________, Wendingen (1925) Dover, 1992.
Anthony Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922, Chicago, (1993.) paperback ed. 1998
Frank Lloyd Wright, Collected Writings, Bruce Pfeiffer, ed. Vol. 2, New York: Rizzoli, 1992.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Master Builder, David Larkin and Bruce Pfeiffer, Eds. (New York: Universe Publishing, 1997) 0-7893-0098-2. Pb.