Lecture Schedule
August 28 Introduction
Introduction to WEB SITE -- Howard Smith
Prehistoric Architecture -- Notes in reader
September 2 Prehistoric Architecture -- T/H pp. 47-52, Tilley, A Phenomenology
of Landscape, pp. 71-75; 143-201 Michael Dames, The Silbury Treasure,
James Mellart, Catal Huyuk., and E. C. Krupp, Echoes of Ancient
Skies, in the reader, and lecture notes.
September 4 Mesopotamian Architecture -- T/H pp. 67-75; lecture notes &
Harappa in reader
September 9 Ancient Egypt -- T/H pp. 53-67, lecture notes
September 11 Ancient Egypt -- Edwards, Pyramids
September 16 Bronze Age Greece -- T/H pp. 77-81 and Michael Wood, In
Search of the Trojan War and lecture notes
September 18 Periclean Athens -- T/H pp. 83-109, Pingree, "Hellenophilia"
and Agora of Athens
September 23 Hellenistic Architecture
Steele, Hellenistic Architecture, Priene, Ephesus
September 25 Examination on previous lectures and readings --10%
September 30 Etruscan & Early Roman Architecture -- T/H pp. 114-123
October 2 Imperial Roman Architecture -- T/H pp. 123-155
October 7 Mayan Architecture -- Coe, The Mayan and Stonework of
the Maya (in Reader)
October 9 Byzantine Architecture -- T/H pp. 159-183 and St. Vitale
October 14 Examination on previous lectures and readings -- 10%
October 16 Ottoman Architecture
October 21 Islamic Architecture -- Read Ozdural and Abou Seif
October 23 Romanesque Architecture
October 28 Chinese Architecture -- Paul Tang
October 30 Japanese Architecture -- Yo Hakomori
November 4 French Gothic -- Read Panofsky Gothic Architecture & Scholasticism
and Abbot Suger in Reader and English Gothic
November 6 TBA
November 11 Examination on previous lectures and readings -- 10%
November 13 Guest lecture -- Roger Sherwood
November 18 Guest lecture -- Roger Sherwood
November 20 Guest lecture -- Roger Sherwood
November 25 Indian Architecture -- Eliade, Sacred and Profane (all)
December 2 Review 1 for final
TERM PAPER DUE
December 4 Review 2 for final
December 9 FINAL EXAMINATION -- 40% -- 7:00-9:00 p.m.
