ARC 368R/388R
History of American Architecture, 1400-2000

Instructor: Kate Holliday
Time: T,Th 12:30-2
Contact: kholliday@mail.utexas.edu
Location: SUT 2.114

Prerequisites: This course is for upper-division undergraduates. Those enrolled in the School of Architecture are required to have completed Survey I-III before enrolling; SOA students who have completed Survey I & II may enroll with permission of the instructor. For students enrolled outside SOA, there are no prerequisites; only permission of the instructor is required.

Course Description: This lecture and discussion course will provide students with an in-depth look at the history of the architecture of the United States, including:

- The indigenous architecture of Native America,
- Colonial architecture,
- Early classicism in the U.S. (1780-1830),
- The eclecticism of the nineteenth century (1830-1900),
- The emergence and evolution of modernism (1900-1950),
- And, the many reactions to modernism (1950-2000).

Emphasis will be placed on the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Course Objectives: Students will learn multiple ways of looking at and understanding American architecture. The course will cover vernacular architecture as well as architecture by architects; it will look at architecture in cities as well as rural architecture; we will focus on major monuments as well as more obscure achievements. We will explore many different themes throughout the semester: issues of style, technology, aesthetics, theory, architectural education and professionalism, and social and cultural history. Students will be encouraged to broaden their view of architecture and to engage in meaningful investigations of architectural creation.

Evaluation: Students will be required to take a mid-term and a final examination. There will be one short paper (4-5 pages), due early in the semester. Students will also work on one major research project throughout the semester (topic to be chosen in consultation with the instructor) that will culminate in a longer paper (8-10 pages), a student web site, and a brief class presentation (5-10 minutes).

Textbooks: Leland Roth, A Concise History of American Architecture
Carter Wiseman, Twentieth-Century American Architecture
Peter Nabokov & Robert Easton, Native American Architecture
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