| LEC # | LECTURE TOPICs | DISCUSSION TOPICs | KEY DATES |
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| 1 | Constructing the Past Exploring Forth and Digging Under |
Buildings, Projects, Architects John Soane - House and Museum, Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Carceri d'Invenzioni, The Bamiyan Buddhas, Afghanistan |
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| 2 | Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave Trade | Field trip to Mt. Auburn Cemetery | |
| 3 | Landscape The Politics of Site |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Versailles, Stowe, Monticello |
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| 4 | Architecture and Industrialism, Part 1: The Ghosts of Technology |
Buildings, Projects, Architects The Eiffel Tower, Pavilion d'Esprit Nouveau, The Statue of Liberty |
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| 5 | Architecture as Ornament |
Buildings, Projects, Architects William Morris - Red House, Auguste Perret - Rue Franklin Apartments, Adolf Loos - Villa Karma, Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona Pavilion, Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye |
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| 6 | Architecture and Industrialism, Part 2: Masses, Classes and Regions |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Ebenezer Howard - The Garden City, Toni Garnier - Cité Industrielle, Le Corbusier - Villa Contemporaine |
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| 7 | Domesticity Gender in Space |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Frank Lloyd Wright - Frederick C. Robie House, Hanna House, Edgar J. Kaufmann House; Adolf Loos - Josephine Baker House |
Exploration of topics for final paper |
| 8 | Making of the Modernist Avant-Garde and the Operative Historian |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Wiesenhofsiedlung 1927, Examples from Nancy Troy's Book on de Stijl |
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| 9 | Body Talk Body as Metaphor in Architecture |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Siegfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command |
Finalization and presentation of paper topics |
| 10 | Ludic Spaces The Architecture of Play |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Paris Exposition Universelle 1989, Centre Pompidou, Coney Island |
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| 11 | Lines Across the City Architecture and the State |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Hausmann's Paris, Vienna's Ringstrasse, Chandigarh |
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| 12 | Post-War Narratives of "Development" |
Buildings, Projects, Architects Le Corbusier - Unité d'Habitation, Team X Projects |
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| 13 | Final Lecture | The Story so Far - Discussion and Recap |