Modern architecture is often taken to be synonymous with twentieth-century events, but the project of modernism in its practical and theoretical development is more deeply rooted. This course will consider the grand narrative of Western architectural thinking in its built and written form from the revolutionary innovations of the French Enlightenment to the maturation of modern ideals. It will focus in depth on critical junctures of this discourse, that is, periods and places where design discussions were especially animate and alternative ideologies were ambitiously put forward. Some readings of primary course material will be required, and every effort will be made to integrate the topical issues of theory with the architectural creations that arose from or around them. Among the principal architects and theorists to be considered are Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jacques-German Soufflot, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, J.N.L. Durand, Henri Labrouste, Eugene Emmanual Viollet-le-Duc, John Soane, Augustus Welby Pugin, John Ruskin, Thomas Jefferson, A.J. Downing, A.J. Davis, H.H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper, and Otto Wagner. Requirements: four "take-home" essays and participation in class discussions. Prerequisite: ArtH 101-102.

Hour: MALLGRAVE