A4341 American Architecture from 1876 to 1976
History/Theory LectureRobert Stern
INTRODUCTION
This course is a continuation of A4339 American Architecture and Urbanism before 1876. It discusses the guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960. The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.
TOPICS
1. 1876-1890: The Age of Confidence, Commerce, Cosmopolitanism
2. Metropolitan Living, 1865-1890
3. Mercantile Palaces, 1965-1890
4. The Colonial Revival, 1874-1890
5. Traditional Regionalism, 1876-1930
6. The American Renaissance: Academic Classicism
7. Toward Modernism, 1890-1914
8. The Skyscraper, 1890-1932
9. Modernity and Modernism, 1981-1940
10. The Triumph of Modernism, 1940-1976
11. After Modernism
PRIMARY READINGS
Vincent Scully, American Architecture and Urbanism
Leland Roth, A Concise History of American Architecture
Robert Stern, Pride of Place
William Jordy, American Buildings
E. Kaufman, The Rise of American Architecture
Giorgio Ciucci, et al., The American City From the Civil War to the New Deal
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Term paper; final exam