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SYLLABUS ABSTRACT WK 1 - HISTORIOGRAPHIES - SUSPECT TERRAINS - TERRAIN VAGUE The Writing of History (15th-20th centuries, or 'Modernity'): synchrony & diachrony - narratives & metanarratives - epics & mythography, early histories (Homer/Beowulf, Herodotus/Thucydides) - de Meung & Colonna (Roman de la Rose & Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) - Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) & historicism - Johann Gottfried von Herder (Michelet-Carlyle-Burkhardt-Wolfflin: historical cycles & varieties of formalism) - Hegel: dialectical diachrony & phenomenology - Cassirer (Critical Idealism - symbolic forms) - Heidegger & 'historicity' (The Concept of Time) - Henri Focillon (The Life of Forms in Art) - Ortega y Gasset (organic & mechanistic models) - Walter Benjamin's 'Angel' (Notes on the Philosophy of History) - Glacken (Traces on the Rhodian Shore) - Foucault (heterologies & the 'archaeology' of ideologies) - Gramsci (on hegemony) - Hayden White (Meta-History) - Landscape as intellectual history (landscape as cultural history - Herder's "Critical Forests" & Thoreau's "Walden") - Emerson's Nature (Cavell) - W J T Mitchell (Iconology) - Venice School (A History of Mentalities: Tafuri, Cacciari et alia) - Steiner/Berlin Passages/Readings: Herodotus (5th-century B.C.) - Beowulf (the 8th-century epic, Heaney's translation) - Pliny (Roman villas) - Limbourg Brothers (Tres riches heures) - Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516)/Brueghel (1525-1569) - Herder/Goethe (individuality & society) - Heidegger (on Holderlin's 'Ister') - Braudel (& Annales - statistical, ethnographic, economic determinism) - De Certeau (The Writing of History) - Louis Marin (ekphrasis) - Cartography or 'How to Lie with Maps' - Hayden White - Panofsky/Warburg - Michel Serres - Walter Benjamin/Giorgio Agamben - Gaston Bachelard - Pierre Bourdieu/Terry Eagleton/Slavoj Zizek (Mapping Ideology) - Le Dantec (Reading the French Garden) - Steiner (Errata)/Berlin (Concepts & Categories) WK 2 - HUMANISM - SYNCRETISM - RENAISSANCE 15th-16th centuries (1490-1550): Geometrism - iconography/iconology - emblems (16th century Italy) - masques - Alberti & perspectivism & optics - Colonna & Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) - Raphael & architectural representation & antiquarianism - Inigo Jones (court masques & fetes) - Baxandall ('dancing merchant savants') - monastic lands/abbeys - Palladio Passages/Readings: "Era of the Image of the World" (Heidegger/Tafuri) - Petrarch (Weiss, on Mt Ventoux) & Boccaccio (Decameron, 1348-53) - Joseph Connors (villa iconography) - Burkhardt (origins of the Renaissance) - Lazzaro (Renaissance gardens) - Palissy (Recepte veritable, 1563) - Ficino/Bruno/Pico (Weiss, Unnatural Horizons) - Durer & Savery (representing landscape) - fortifications & military engineering, monuments - royal redoubts (hunting lodges), game reserves - natural histories & floras (Gesner, 1516-1565) - Montaigne (Italian journal) - natural disasters (London 1666 & Lisbon) - Byzantium/Venice - Spenser/Sydney - Pater (1839-1894) "The School of Giorgioni" Sites/Projects: *Villa Medici (Fiesole, c1455) - *Villa Rotonda (Vincenza, c1567) - *Villa Emo (Fanzolo, 1559) - *Villa Madama (Rome, 1516) - *Villa Aldobrandini (Frascati, c1598) - Villa d'Este - Villa Farnese - Villa Careggi - Pincio - Via Pia & Porta Pia - *Vatican Belvedere (Rome, c1503) - Padua Botanic Garden (1545) - Piazza della Signoria/Uffizi (Florence) - Serlio (idealized forms) - Alhambra (Granada) - *Denotes sites visited WK 3 - ANXIETY - MANNERISM - INSURRECTIONS 16th-17th centuries (1550-1620): Phantasmatic forms - hermeticism - philosophical magic - wunderkammer - alchemy - landscape metaphors & symbolic passages - reformation & cisalpine architectures - northern Renaissance & landscape/still-life painting - Habsburg court style (Vienna/Prague) - Hunt (Italian garden in England, 1600-1750) Passages/Readings: Du Cerceau (Livre d'architecture... & Les plus excellents batiments... 1576 & 82) - Max Dvorak/Arnold Hauser/Pevsner on Mannerism - Kauffman on Central Europe - Borromini (1599-1667) & modules vs. anthropomorphic proportions - Warburg - Vasari (on Michelangelo/Raphael) - Raphael/Caravaggio (1520s) - Tasso (pastoralism) - Jellicoe (Boboli, Bomarzo, etc) - Marin (Guercino & Poussin) - Milton (1608-1674) "Paradise Lost" (1667) - Rudolf II & Prague - collections (proto-museums) - Baroque 'crescent' (Rome to Vienna) - Tudor gardens 'Dutch style' (Hampton Court, 1689-1702) - Buontalenti & Boboli (c.1599) - Robert Burton (1577-1640) "Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621) Sites/Projects: Palazzo del Te, Giulio Romano (Mantua) - Pratolino - *Villa Lante (1556-80) - *Pitti Palace & Boboli Gardens (1550-1585) - *Villa Orsini/Bomarzo (1552-1583) - St Peter's - Porta Pia - Laurentian Library - Frances Yates on *Heidelberg "Hortus Palatinus" (Salomon de Caus, c.1615) - Tuileries (1570) - Borromini & Bernini (Baldachin, St. Peter's) - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Caravaggio (Jarman, 1986) - Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991) - Elizabeth (Kapur, 1998) WK 4 - ABSOLUTE HISTORY - HEGEMONY - ENLIGHTENMENT 17th-18th centuries (1600-1750): Baroque architecture (Rome) - Vico & Caserta (Naples) - Colbert (1619-83) & Versailles - Le Notre (1613-1700) & Vaux-le-Vicomte, Tuileries, Versailles - Leibniz, mechanization & Nature - Bruno & the Infinite - cosmologies & fountains (Trevi, etc) - natural histories (Evelyn/Gerard) - Royal Society (1660) - political ontologies (human as blank slate, social contracts, natural rights) - Jesuits (in China, Japan, India) - Blake's visionary universe (contra Deism) Passages/Readings: D'Argenville (Theorie et pratique du jardinage, 1747) - Boyceau (Traite du jardinage, 1636) - Baroque musical form (& modern minimalist music - Glass & Reich) - botanic gardens, colonialism - Descartes (Rationalism) - Barzini on the Italians - Vico's New Science (1725) - Le Notre (Weiss, Mirrors of Infinity) - George Hersey on Caserta - Prague urban baroque (counter reformation) - Charles Bridge (Prague) - Fernand Hallyn (Poetic Structure of the World) - mise-en-scene terminologies - fete champetre - Voltaire & Rousseau - Diderot - Quatremere de Quincy - Vidler on Ledoux & Lequeu - Hume/Kant (skepticism) - Hale Sites/Projects: Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656-61) - *Versailles (Le Notre, 1663-1680s) - *Chantilly (Le Notre, 1660s-1680s) - Schonbrunn (Vienna) - *Vrtbovska & Ledeburska (Prague, 1720s) - Caserta - Mantua/Florence/Lisbon/Oxford botanic gardens - *Wallenstein Garden (Prague, 1610-1652) - destruction of Heidelberg - Bila Hora (White Mountain) - Maximilien & Munich - Counter-Reformation urbanism (1700s) - *Charles Bridge & Mala Strana (Matthias Braun's St. Luitgarda, c.1710) - Jardin des plantes (Paris, 1635) - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Elective Affinities (Taviani Brothers, 1996) - The Draughtsman's Contract (c.1694) (Greenaway, 1982) - In the Garden of the Finzi-Contini (de Sica, 1970) WK 5 - ARCADY - ROMANTICISM - NEOCLASSICISM 18th-19th centuries (1700-1800): Pope/Payne Knight/Uvedale Price - Brown & Repton - William Kent & English Palladianism - Rosa/Claude/Poussin - Soane (1753-1837) & antiquarianism (Furjan) - Robert Adam - Canaletto/Piranesi (1720-1778) - Ledoux & Lequeu (Vidler) - Baltrusaitus (Aberrations) - Starobinski (Emblemes de la raison) - Hunt (picturesque & sublime) - French Revolution - Mosser (fabrique & follies) - orientalism (Said) - Georgian England, Regent's Park, Regent's Street & Bath (Nash) - Tiergarten (Berlin) - Boyceau - William Chambers Passages/Readings: Alexander Pope (1688-1744) (Essay on Man) - William Temple (On the Gardens of Epicurus, 1692) & Gilpin - John Gerard (Herball) - conservatories/wardian box/Royal Society - Jean-Marie Morel - Hubert Robert - Vidler (The Writings of the Walls) - Mosser & Teyssot (Architecture of Western Gardens) - Michelet (& Hayden White on Michelet) - Frances Yates on Rosicrucianism & Freemasonry - The Little House (libertinage) - English landscape abroad - Piranesi "Carceri d'Invenzioni" (c.1745) - Goethe (Italian Journey, Elective Affinities, Faust) - Wordsworth (ruins & the sublime) - Coleridge (& Bruno) - Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" - William Blake (1757-1827) Sites/Projects: Stowe (1715) - Rousham - *Stourhead (1741-72) - *Ermenonville (1766-1776) - *Painshill (1738-1771) - Kew - Mereville - *Desert de Retz (1774-1794) - Chiswick - Leasowes - *Studley Royal (1716-1781) - Petite Trianon - Lednice (Moravia) - *Denotes sites visited WK 6 - REVOLUTION(S) - ROMANTIC CLASSICISM - MASS-CULTURE 18th-19th centuries (1776-1905): Jefferson in Europe & in America (the West & Native American ruins) - utopias (More & Fourier) - Haussman - Alphand - Olmsted - L'Enfant & Burnham (Washington, DC) - Catherine the Great & Nemours-Duponts - Lenne & Sans Souci Passages/Readings: Jefferson & William Hamilton - Roger Kennedy "Hidden Cities" - Witold Rybczynski on Olmsted & Central Park - Biltmore (125,000 acres in 1890 - 8,000 acres in 2000) - Pinehurst (1895) - Paris & Berlin - Byron (1788-1824) "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1812-1818) - Schinkel/Lenne/Puckler-Muskau (Prussia) - urban parks & boulevards (Bois de Boulogne & Champs Elysee) - industrialization & mechanization (Crystal Palace, c.1851) - Wedgewood Estate (c.1771-73) - urban train stations (sheds) - imperial London (South Kensington) - Gottfried Semper/John Ruskin - gasworks - glasshouses (1850-1900) - operatic & symphonic 'scenery' - Novalis - Crary (Suspensions of Perception) Sites/Projects: Jefferson (Monticello & UVA) - Sans Souci - Hyde Park (London) - *Central Park (Olmsted & Vaux, 1857-1861) - *Mt Auburn (1831) - Bois de Boulogne (Paris)/Tiergarten (Berlin) - Biltmore (Asheville, NC) - Pinehurst (NC) - Park Avenue & Grand Central Terminal (NYC) - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Danton (Wajda, 1982) - Ridicule (Leconte, 1996) - Valmont (Forman, 1989) - The Shooting Party (Bridges, 1984) - Angels & Insects (Haas, 1995) - Goya in Bordeaux (Saura, 1999) WK 7 - POST-ROMANTICISM - NATIONALISM - CAPITALISM 19th-20th centuries (1800-1918): Bourgeois culture - expos & fairs - Ruskin & Morris - Arts & Crafts - Art Nouveau - Modern urbanism & industrial landscape - Grand Tour - Ecole des Beaux-Arts - Gilded Age - Warren Manning - George Kessler - origins of National Parks (John Muir) - tourism/spas - golf courses/ballparks - Wagner/Nietzsche - Zola/Balzac Passages/Readings: De Tocqueville (1805-1859) - Marx - Benjamin - Ruskin - Baudelaire - Whitman - Thoreau - Yeats - Origo (on Leopardi) - Beveridge on Olmsted's papers - Olmsted & Manning - Lanning Roper - Lutyens & Jekyll - Buck-Morss (Dreamworlds) Sites/Projects: World's Columbian Expo (Chicago) - Burnham (Washington, DC) - Kroller-Muller (Otterlo) - Victor Horta - *Buttes-Chaumont (Alphand, 1864-67) - *Pere Lachaise (1804) - Yellowstone/Yosemite - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Little Big Man (Penn, 1970) - The Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) - Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995) - Tess (of the D'Urbervilles) (Polanski, 1979) WK 8 - RATIONALISM - EMPIRICISM - MODERNISM 20th century (1900-1930): Futurism - Giedion - Bauhaus - Functionalism - Cubism - De Saussure (linguistics) - Wittgenstein & Russell (positivism-aesthetics) - Vienna Secession - Surrealism - Dada - Bloomsbury - Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945)/Principles of Art History, 1932 - Mahler/Bruckner - Kandinsky & Blue Riders - James Joyce - Wilde (Bloomsbury) - Bergson Passages/Readings: D'Annunzio/Terragni - Sant'Elia - Gropius - Hannes Meyer (worker housing) - Adolf Loos (by way of Cacciari) - Bruno Taut (crystalline cities) - Suprematism - Tractatus - Cacciari ("Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point") - Kafka (on Prague) - Apollinaire, Breton (Nadja) & Surrealists (Desert de Retz) - Giedion & Benjamin - Johnson & Hitchcock (MoMA) - Reyner Banham (architecture & technology) - McPhee & American geology ("Suspect Terrain") - "Architecture in Film" - "Architecture & Nihilism" (Cacciari) - "Sphere & the Labyrinth" (Tafuri, "Jefferson's Ashes") - Architecture and Film (PAP, 2000) Sites/Projects: Le Corbusier (villas, Radiant City, Ronchamp) - Le Rouge (Albert Kahn, Detroit) - Rockefeller Center (Raymond Hood) - Ba'ta Factory (1930s), Czechoslovakia - Josip Plecnik (*Prague Castle Gardens) - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: 1900: Novecento (Bertolucci, 1976) - Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Weine, 1919) - Metropolis (Lang, 1926) - Entr'acte (Clair, 1924) - Ballet Mecanique (Leger, 1924) - Night of San Lorenzo (Taviani Brothers, 1981) WK 9 - HISTORICISM - EXPRESSIONISM - FUNCTIONALISM 20th century (1930-1960): Frankfurt School - Dada - Abstract Expressionism - Kiley/Rose/Eckbo - Tunnard - Aalto & Scharoun (organic architecture) - Frank Lloyd Wright (Japanese & Meso-American influences) - Le Corbusier - Karson on Fletcher Steele - United Nations - Lever House & Noguchi (1952) - Louis Kahn/Robert Venturi - transportation landscapes (Robert Moses) - suburbanization (& 'the lawn') - Absence of Mies (Barcelona Pavilion & Villa Tugendhat) - Lewerentz & Asplund - collage/montage (Schwitters/Eisenstein) - Karel Teige (on Villa Tugendhat) - photography/film Passages/Readings: Jurgen Habermas/Theodore Adorno - Antonin Artaud - Walter Benjamin - Clement Greenberg - Marcel Duchamp - modernist manifestos (Le Corbusier, CIAM, Team X, Archigram) - Czech functionalism & neo-functionalism - Fuchs & Brno School - Kenneth Frampton on tectonics - Detlef Mertens on Mies - Colin Rowe - sci-fi urbanism (Ballard, Huxley, Gibson) - tract housing - airports/freeways - college/university campuses - Situationism - Imbert on Modernist Garden in France - Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi Scott Brown) - Rudolf Arnheim - Freud "Civilization & its Discontents" (1930) - Lacan "The Mirror Stage" (1936) Sites/Projects: *Woodland Cemetery - Hollyhock House - Fallingwater - Villa Mairea - Naumkeag - Sissinghurst - Barcelona Pavilion - Villa Tugendhat (Mies van der Rohe) - Villa Muller (Loos) - Dumbarton Oaks - Casa Malaparte (Libera, 1930s-1940s) - Goetheanum (Steiner) - Danteum (Terragni) - Villa Noialles (1926) - Cubist villas (Prague) - Parc Guell (Gaudi) - East Block urbanism - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Sometimes a Great Notion (Newman, 1971) - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998) - 1984 (Radford, 1984) - Bladerunner (Scott, 1982) - Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990) - The Belly of an Architect (Greenaway, 1987) - The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci, 1990) - Rome: Open City (Rossellini, 1945) - Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961) WK 10 - HIGH MODERNISM - INTERNATIONAL STYLE - IMMODERNITY 20th-21st centuries (1960-2000): megastructures - corporate modern - campuses - suburbs - strips - museums - sculpture parks - urban renewal - riots - malls - gentrification - minimalist art & land art - new urbanism - pseudo-public space (plazas after 1960) - land trusts - memorials - post-industrial urban waterfronts/dystopias - film noir - military facilities & cities (Presidio/Governor's Island) - Wenceslas Square/Tiananmen Square (civil disobedience) - Ticino/Barcelona (1980s) Passages/Readings: Merleau-Ponty (eye & mind) - Barragan/Burle Marx - Thomas Church - Hideo Sasaki - Walker/Simo - Noguchi - Halprin/Moore (RSVP Cycles-Poetics of Gardens) - Robert Smithson - Matta Clark - Fluxus - McHarg (Design with Nature) - Venturi (Complexity & Contradiction) - Archigram (1960s) - Mumford/Huxtable/Whyte - Rossi/Krier(s) - Palaasma (Eyes of the Skin) - Finlay - Turrell - Mary Miss/Jenny Holzer/Elyn Zimmerman - Irwin - Meier's Getty - Siah Armajani - Vito Acconci - Frampton ("critical regionalism") - Dokumenta/Venice Biennale - new museums (1980s/1990s) - Frank Gehry (Vitra to Bilbao) - Libeskind & Eisenman (ANY) - Shades of Noir (Copjec) - Variations on a Theme Park (Sorkin et alia) - City of Quartz (Mike Davis) - Cybercities (M. Christine Boyer) - Bloomer ("hypertextual picturesque") - Kipnis (Manor of Nietzsche)/Johnson - Mark Dion (pseudo-archaeologies) Sites/Projects: Brasilia - UNESCO (Paris) - Donnell Garden - Miller Garden (Kiley) - Fountain Place, Dallas (Kiley) - Lincoln Center (NYC) - *Kimbell Art Museum (Kahn, 1966-72) - Fondation Maeght (Sert & Tal-Coat, c.1964) - Robert Zion, Paley Park (NYC) - Noguchi (*Chase Manhattan, *Beinecke, *Costa Mesa, *Lever House) - SWA - Walker/Schwartz - Olin - Russell Page (PepsiCo) - A E Bye - Smithson - *Christo (Running Fence, Sonoma & Marin, CA, 1972-76) - Holt (*Sun Tunnels, 1973-76) - de Maria (*Lightning Field, 1977) - *Finlay (Little Sparta) - Vietnam War Memorial/FDR Memorial (Washington, DC) - Piazza d'Italia (Moore) - *Beverly Hills Civic Center (Moore w/ Campbell & Campbell) - *Brion Tomb (Scarpa, 1969-1978) - Isozaki (*MoCA, LA, 1987) - *Battery Park City Winter Garden, NYC (Pelli & Friedberg, c. 1989) - Canary Wharf, London - Irwin - *Getty Center (Meier & Irwin et alia, 1989-1996) - Turrell - Goldsworthy - Libeskind (ETA Hoffman Garden, Garden of Love & Fire) - *Eisenman (Holocaust Memorial, Berlin, 2000) - OMA (Koolhaas & Brunier) - Gehry (*Chiat-Day & Edgemar, LA) - New Urbanism: DPZ & Calthorpe (Seaside/Celebration) - Fondation Cartier (Nouvel/Baumgarten) - Peter Latz - *Parc de la Villette (Tschumi, 1985-1997) - *Parc Andre-Citroen (Provost, Berger & Clement, late 1980s)- *Parc de Bercy (Bernard Huet, late 1980s) - Eurolille - Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Perrault) - *Ira's Fountain (Halprin/Danadjieva, c.1976) - Predock/Legoretta - Zumthor - West 8 - CCA Competition (NYC, 1999) - *Denotes sites visited Films/videos: Antonioni’s tetralogy: The Adventure (1960), The Night (1960), The Eclipse (1962), Red Desert (1964) - Playtime (Tati, 1967) - Traffic (Tati, 1970) - Roma (Fellini, 1972) - Alphaville (Godard, 1965) - Weekend (Godard, 1967) - Brazil (Gilliam, 1985) - The Truman Show (Weir, 1998) - Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987) - Pleasantville (Ross, 1998) WK 11-12 - THE IMMEDIATE PAST - THE PRESENT - THE FUTURE 20th-21st century (1989-2000): "On the Nature of Things: Contemporary American Landscape Design" (Basel: Birkhauser, 2000) & Europe The last two weeks will be devoted to the presentation of contemporary landscape architecture and its variety of formal and artistic approaches Both European and American practices will be discussed with an emphasis on post-cultural urbanism and public space Sites: *Beth Israel Memorial Chapel & Garden (Solomon & Strang, Houston, 1996) - *Glowing Topiary Garden (Ken Smith & Jim Conti, NYC) - *Hair Gardens (Ken Smith, NYC) - *Lever House Restoration (Ken Smith & Landscape Agency New York, 2000) - *Sod Suit (Tom Oslund, Harvard GSD) - *Modular Garden (Tom Oslund, Ohio) - *Eclipse Garden, Arthur Ross Terrace, Hayden Planetarium (Kathryn Gustafson & Anderson-Ray, NYC, 2000) - *Black Triangle (Leipzig, Michael Sorkin) - *Floating Forests (Michael Sorkin, Hamburg) - *South Coast Plaza (Kathryn Gustafson, Costa Mesa) - *SATSOP Nuclear Garden (Anderson-Ray, Near Elma, WA) - *Snake Path (Alexis Smith, San Diego) - *DOR Plaza (Mary Miss & Tom Oslund, Minneapolis) - *Embarcadero/San Francisco Ferry Terminal (ROMA) |
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