ARCH 399: GREAT ARCHITECTURE --- COURSE SCHEDULE

Professor Givens Spring 2004

Class 1: Monday, March 29

INTRODUCTION: Course description, grading, goals

Art Museum Courtyard, University of Oregon

Class 2: Wednesday, March 31

No Class, Faculty Candidate Presentation

Class 3: Friday, April 2

Theoretical Base, Beauty is Objective

Read: Synthesis 9 Introduction, Achieving Full Synthesis

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Class 4: Monday, April 5

Room Structure Part 1: Tilson Residence

Read: Synthesis 9 Responding to Context;

Class 5: Wednesday, April 7

Room Structure Part 2: Tilson Residence

Read: Nature of Order: Prologue, Preface, Ch. 1

Class 6: Friday, April 9

Assign/Review Term Paper Requirements

Read: Synthesis 9 Supporting Activities

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Class 7: Monday, April 12

Pantheon, Rome Italy

Class 8: Wednesday, April 14

Piazza Del Campo, Sienna, Italy

Read: Synthesis 9 Achieving Clarity and Wholeness

Nature of Order: Chapters 2 and 3

Class 9: Friday, April 16

Monet’s House and Garden, Giverny France; Place des Vosgues, Paris France

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Class 10: Monday, April 19

Monticello, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson

Read: Synthesis 9 Establishing Longevity

Nature of Order: Chapter 4

Class 11: Wednesday, April 21

Sir John Soane’s House/Museum, London; Fonthill, Henry Mercer, Doylestown Pennsyvania,

Class 12: Friday, April 23

Schroeder House, Gerrit Rietveld, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Class 13: Monday, April 26

The Tower, Carl Jung, Bollingen, Switzerland

Nature of Order: Chapter 5

Class 14: Wednesday, April 28

Can Lis, Jorn Utzon, Mallorca, Spain

Class 15: Friday, April 30

Medlock/Graham House, Christopher Alexander, Whidbey Is. Washington

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Class 16: Monday, May 3

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Class 17: Wednesday, May 5

Glasgow School of Art, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Scotland

Read: Synthesis 9 Integrating Construction;

Nature of Order: Chapter 7

Class 18: Friday, May 7

Thorncrown Chapel by Faye Jones, St. Ignatius Chapel by Stephen Holl

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Class 19: Monday, May 10

Notre Dame du Haut (Ronchamp) by Le Corbusier, St. Benedict Chapel by Peter Zumthor.

Read: Synthesis 9 Establishing Vitality;

Nature of Order: Chapter 8

Class 20: Wednesday, May 12

The Stock Exchange, Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Class 21: Friday, May 14

Timberline Lodge, Turner & Underwood, Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Class 22: Monday, May 17

Kimball Art Museum, Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas

Read: Synthesis 9 Maintaining Historical Continuity;

Nature of Order: Chapter 9

Class 23: Wednesday, May 19

Musee D’Orsay, Gae Aulenti, Paris, France

Class 24: Friday, May 21

The Hubertus House, Aldo Van Eyck, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Quirini Stampalia, Scarpa, Venice, Italy

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Class 25: Monday, May 24

Great Passages: Florence, Italy;

Nature of Order: Chapter 10

Class 26: Wednesday, May 26

Bath and the Royal Crescent, John Wood the Younger, Bath, England

Class 27: Friday, May 28

University of Virginia, Jefferson; Eishen School, Christopher Alexander, Japan

Nature of Order: Chapter 11

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Class 28: Monday, May 31

MEMORIAL DAY NO CLASS

Class 29: Wednesday, June 2

Venice, Italy

Class 30: Friday, June 4

Final Lecture: Vernacular Architecture: Architecture without Architects; TERM PAPER DUE

FINAL EXAM: TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED