University of Miami School of Architecture
Theories of Art, Architecture and Design in the Twentieth Century
ARC 586 Fall 1999
Tuesdays and Thursdays 5.00 – 6.15pm, Eaton 148
Dr Richard John
This seminar will consist of a series of bi-weekly readings and discussions. The texts will generally come from the list below. Each student will be expected to choose a text, which need not necessarily come from this list, and give a presentation in the latter half of the semester. This presentation will form the basis a term paper. A written outline of the presentation should be submitted by midterm. Please discuss your choice with me as soon as possible so that you can secure your first choice and I can approve it before you start work on it. Suggestions for additions to this list will be welcomed.
Arts and Crafts
John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
William Morris, The Revival of Architecture, News from Nowhere
William Richard Lethaby, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Homes
Townplanning
Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Daniel Burnham, Plan for Chicago
Tony Garnier, The Cite Industrielle
Frank Lloyd Wright, When Democracy Builds
Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Ornament
Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime
Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats, Ornament in Architecture
John Wellborn Root, Architectural Ornamentation
Beaux Arts and the Classical revival
Geoffrey Scott, The Architecture of Humanism
Curtis, Architectural Composition
Modernism and related movements
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, The Modulor
Walter Gropius, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
Bruno Taut, The Crystal Chain Letters
Antonio Sant’Elia, Futurist Manifesto
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Manifesto
Richard Neutra, Survival Through Design
Organic Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright, An Organic Architecture
Bruno Zevi, Towards an Organic Architecture
Historians
Philip Johnson, The International Style, The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture
Siegfried Giedion, Space Time and Architecture
Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design
Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Christian Norberg Schulz, Intentions in Architecture
Attacks on Modernism
Henry Hope Reed, The Golden City
David Watkin, Morality and Architecture
Peter Blake, Form Follows Fiasco and Gods Own Junkyard
Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word and From Our House to Bauhaus
Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Architecture
Brent Brolin, The Failure of Modern Architecture
Peter Collins, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture
Post-modernism
Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Charles Jencks, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
Charles Moore, Body, Memory and Architecture
Alternatives to Modernism
Demetri Porphyrios, Classicism is not a Style
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
Leon Krier, Choice or Fate
Quinlan Terry, Miscellaneous writings
Avant Garde
Rem Koolhaas, S,M,L,XL