In order to avoid lugging textbooks around Europe, all assigned readings are available online. If you are bringing a laptop or tablet, I would recommend that you make a readings folder and download these files ahead of time. That way you will be able to access them even without a wi-fi connection. The readings are arranged chronologically, and we will cover the material in class basically in this order. You are encouraged to read some of these ahead of time, in order to maximize free time during the program. Note that some of the readings have small typeface, but it is possible to zoom way in on the pdf files.
The readings come from various textbooks: Buildings Across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture, 4th edition, by Fazio, Moffett & Wodehouse (McGraw-Hill, 2014); Art of the Middle Ages, 2nd edition, by Snyder, Luttikhuizen & Verkerk (Prentice Hall, 2006); Architecture Since 1400 by Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University of Minnesota Press, 2014); and A New History of Modern Architecture, by Colin Davies (Laurence King, 2017).
Ancient & Medieval Architecture
“The Greek World” (Buildings Across Time, chapter 2)
“The Roman World” (Buildings Across Time, chapter 5)
“Byzantine Art before Iconoclasm” (Art of the Middle Ages, chapter 4)
“Islamic Spain” (Art of the Middle Ages, chapter 12)
“Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture” (Buildings Across Time, chapter 8)
“Gothic Architecture” (Buildings Across Time, chapter 9)
“French Gothic Art: Saint Denis, Notre Dame & Chartres” (Art of the Middle Ages, chapter 16, pp. 322-349)
Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
“Brunelleschi” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 3)
“Medici Florence” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 4)
“The Renaissance in Rome and the Veneto” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 5)
“Resisting the Renaissance” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 6)
“Baroque Rome” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 9)
“Northern Baroque” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 11)
“City and Country in Britain and Ireland” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 12)
Modern & Contemporary Architecture
“Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the Civic Realm” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 16)
“The Industrial Revolution” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 17)
“Paris in the Nineteenth Century” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 18)
“The Domestic Ideal” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 19)
“Inventing the Avant-Garde” (Architecture Since 1400, chapter 22)
“Le Corbusier, part 1” & “Le Corbusier, part 2” (A New History of Modern Architecture, chapters 9 & 17)
“Mass Housing” & “Brutalism” (A New History of Modern Architecture, chapters 19 & 21)
“High Tech” & “Deconstructivism” (A New History of Modern Architecture, chapters 27 & 28)
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