Bellevue University

AR 330

MODERN MOVEMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE

 

Prerequisite:                None

 

Objectives:

 

The student who successfully completes AR 330 should:

 

1.      be familiar with the major movements in 20^th century architecture;

2.      be able to identify major works of architecture from the periods covered;

3.      know the stylistic characteristics of the various architectural movements;

4.      be able to trace the general development of western architecture;

5.      be familiar with the ways in which society affects the style of architecture;

6.      be able to define terminology involved in the study of these architectural movements;

7.      be able to analyze and critically evaluate a contemporary building; and

8.      be more appreciative and critically aware of contemporary architecture.

 

Content:

 

Modern Movements in Architecture is the study of western architecture of the 20^th century through selected examples primarily from the United States and Europe.  This is an art history class in which the focus is on lecture and slide study;  there is no studio work involved.  It will begin with a review of the historical background from which 20^th century architecture developed, will look at the major trends which have developed in the 20^th century, and will study individual modern architects and various examples of their work.

 

General Kinds of Assignments:

 

There will be assigned reading in the text, slide study, and class discussion.  In addition, each student will prepare a critical study of one local building.

 

Testing and Grading Patterns:

 

There will be four tests.  These may be both objective and short essay and will include slide identification and/or slide discussion questions.  The final grade will be based on the average of the test grades and the report.  Class attendance will also be considered.

 

Course Outline:

 

I.        Introduction and Background

A.     Egyptian and Middle Eastern

B.     Classical

1.      Greece

2.      Rome

C.     Medieval

1.      Byzantine

2.      Romanesque

3.      Gothic

D.     Renaissance

1.      Italian

2.      Outside Italy

E.     Baroque and Rococo

F.     19^th Century

 

II.      The Six Traditions

A.     The Idealist Tradition

B.     The self-conscious Tradition

C.     The Intuitive Tradition

D.     The Logical Tradition

E.     The unselfconscious Tradition

F.     The Activist Tradition

 

III.     Mies van der  Rohe

 

IV.   Gropius and Wright

 

V.     Le Corbusier

 

VI.   Alvar Alto

 

VII.  Recent American Architecture

A.     Rudolph

B.     Goff

C.     Greene

D.     Soleri and Mills

E.     Yamasaki

F.     Saarinen

G.    Harrison and Abramovitz

H.     Skidmore, Owings, and Merill

I.        Johansen

J.      Johnson

K.     Fuller

L.      Eams

M.    Koenig

N.     Venturi

O.    Moore and Turnbull

P.     Sert, Jackson, Gourley

Q.    Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles

R.     Kahn

S.     Pei

T.      Roche and Dinkeloo

 

VIII. Recent British Architecture

A.     London Following World War II

B.     New Palladianism

C.     Neo-Platonism

D.     Pop and Non-Pop

 

IX.    The International Scene

A.     Canada

B.     Brazil

C.     Germany

D.     Japan

E.     Holland

F.     Italy

G.    France

H.     Great Britain

 

X.      Later Modernism and Post Modernism

 

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Assigned Text:

 

Jencks, Charles.                Modern Movements in Architecture. 2^nd edition, 1965.  New York: 

Viking Penguin, Inc.

 

Additional Reference Material:

 

Banham, Reyner.  Guide to Modern Architecture.  Princeton:  D. Van Nostrand, 1962.

 

                                , Theory and Design in the First Machine Age.  2^nd edition, New York Praeger, 1967.

 

Blake, Peter.  The Master Builder.  New York:  Norton, 1976.

 

Carter, Peter.  Miles van der Roche at Work.  London:  Pall Mall Press, 1974

 

Collins, Peter.  Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950.  London Faber & Faber, 1971.

 

Condit, Carl W.  The Rise of the Skyscrapers:  Portrait of the Times and Career of Influential

Architects.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1952.

 

Fleming, John;  Honour, Hugh;  and Pevsner, Nikolas.  Penguin Dictionary of Architecture.  Baltimore:  Penguin, 1966.

 

Giedion, Siegfried.  Space, Time and Architecture:  The Growth of a New Tradition.  4^th edition, 

Cambridge, Mass:  Harvard University Press, 1962.

 

Hamlin, Talbot F., ed.  Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture. 4 vols. 

New York:  Columbia University Press, 1952.

 

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell.  Architecture-Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 

New York:  Penquin, 1977.

 

Jacobus, John.  Twentieth-Century Architecture:  The Middle Years, 1940-1964 

New York:  Praeger, 1966.

 

Pehnt, Wolfgang.  Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture.  New York:  Abrams, 1964.

 

Pvsner, Nikolaus.  An Outline of European Architecture.  8^th revised edition,  Baltimore:  Penguin, 1974.

 

Scully, Vincent.  Modern Architecture:  The Architecture of Democracy.  New York:  Braxiller, 1961.

 

Stierlin, Henri.  Encyclopedia of World Architecture.  New York:  Facts on File, 1987.

 

Whittick, Arnold.  European Architecture in the Twentieth Century.  Aylebury, England:

Leonard Hill Books, 1974.