ART
370: The History of Pre-Modern Architecture
DePaul University
Fullerton 202
Winter Quarter 2002, Mon.-Wed.
3:30-5:00
Paul B. Jaskot
Office: Rm. 213, x2567
Office hours: Wednesday 12:30-2:30 or by appointment
e-mail: pjaskot@depaul.edu
web page: www.depaul.edu/~pjaskot
Course Description: From ancient times to the present, architecture
has been the major means of defining the human physical environment. This
course briefly surveys the history of architecture and city planning in
western society up to the 1789 French Revolution. We will focus on issues
such as the relationship between architecture and political power, public
and vernacular architecture, the development of the city, architects and
their patrons, and the function of architecture in a variety of cultures.
Given this scope of analysis, we will deal necessarily with significant
social, political and economic events that influenced and were influenced
by architecture.
In studying this area, the student is expected to do c. 6 hours of outside
study on average per week for the course. If this is the case, the student
can expect to have a thorough knowledge of architectural and urban developments
in the pre-modern European and Mediterranean world, but also to have worked
on crucial reading, writing, and argumentation skills. With these skills
in mind, the purpose of the course will be to make students not only more
aware of architectural history from the past but also more critical in
understanding the development of western culture as a whole.
Required Text: Spiro Kostof, The History of Architecture,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985 (Available at DePaul’s Lincoln Park
Bookstore); additional readings are on reserve for this course in the Richardson
Library or on electronic reserve accessible through the library's
home page and listed according to professor and class number (http://www.lib.depaul.edu).
Syllabus
January 7: Introduction: Architecture
and the History of Western Culture
January 9, 14: The Rise of Lithic Architecture:
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt
January 16, 21: Ancient Athens and the Development
of the Greek Temple Type
January 23, 28: Ancient Rome and the Development
of the Roman City
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Kostof: Ch. 9, 10.
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Roger B. Ulrich, “Julius Caesar and the Creation
of the Forum Iulium,” American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993): 49-80.
January 30, February 4: Christians, Muslims and
the Splintering of the Roman Empire: From Rome to Constantinople to Jerusalem
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Kostof: Ch. 11, 12.
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Rabun Taylor, "A Literary and Structural Analysis
of the First Dome on Justinian's Hagia Sophia, Constantinople," Journal
of the Society of Architectural Historians 55 (March 1996): 66-78.
SHORT DESCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT DUE IN CLASS, 30 JANUARY!!!!!
February 6: Midterm Exam!
February 11, 13: Architecture of the
Pilgrimage Road
February 18, 25 [NOTE: no class Feb. 20]:
“Gothic” Architecture and the Patronage of French Urban Aristocracies
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Kostof: Ch. 15.
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Erwin Panofsky, trans., “On what was done during
his administration,” Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its
Art Treasures, second edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1979): 40-81.
February 27, March 4: Architecture of the
Italian City States: Florence and Venice
METHODOLOGY PAPERS DUE IN CLASS, MARCH
4!!!!
March 6, 11: Reformation/Counter-Reformation Architecture
and the Rome of the Popes
March 13: Architecture in an Age of Absolute Monarchy:
Spain, Mexico City and the Distant Thunder of Revolution
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Kostof: 18, 22.
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A. Aveni, E. Calnek and H. Hartung, "Myth, Environment,
and the Orientation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan," American Antiquity
53 (April 1988): 287-309.
March 18, Monday: Final Exam! (2:45-5:00
PM)
Note on Grading: Grades in this class will be determined by the
following scale:
Midterm: 20%; Final Exam: 40%.
Description Paper: 10%; Methodology Paper: 20%.
Discussion Participation: 10%.
The final exam cannot be rescheduled or taken at another time. If you cannot
make the exam, you should not sign up for the course.
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