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CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE SYLLABUS

Syllabus

WEEKLY GUIDE

WEEK I: Introduction to Classical Architecture

   GREECE

   Paestum : Temples of Hera and Athena
Readings: Vitruvius, excerpts from De architectura.

WEEK II: Athens. Acropolis: Parthenon, Propylaia, Athena Nike, Erechtheion.
   Choragic monument of Lysicrates
   Readings: Herodotus   Thucydides,   Pausanius,   Plutarch,   Augustine on Varro.

   The Parthenon Marbles,
   Readings: article by Bruce Clark,  statements by Greek government.  and by British Museum.

WEEK III: ROME

   Specific characteristics of Roman architecture
   Roman forum, Pantheon
   Readings : Livy, Suetonius, Plautus,

WEEK IV:  Pompeii, Roman wall painting

   Reading : Petronius

WEEK V: Renaissance and Neo-Classicism :

   Renaissance works by Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Sansovino, Palladio, Michelangelo.

   Baroque and neo-classical works by Borromini, Inigo Jones, Burlington, Robert Adam, Soufflot.

   Reading: Alberti’s preface; Laugier, Introduction and Chapter I, “General Principles of Architecture,” from Essay on Architecture.

WEEK VI: Neo-Classicism and Classical Revival:

   Works by Jefferson, Vignon, Chalgrin, Ithiel Town, von Klenze ; McKim, Mead& White, Peter Behrens, Mies van der Rohe, Brown and Venturi.