Three Rivers community college
Thames CAMPUS    574 new london tURnpIkE    norwich, ct 06360

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Architecture of the World

Monday 3:30 & 6:30pm Rm C101, Tues/Thurs 1:00pm, Rm D104

 

Syllabus Monday)  |  Syllabus (Tues/Thurs)

Three Rivers

ARC K102

Instructor:          Professor Mark Comeau, (885-2387), email mcomeau@trcc.commnet.edu

 

Grade:                  Quizzes (4) 80%           Final 10%          Research Project 10%

 

Course Objectives:

The course offers a global perspective of buildings, their settings, and the dissemination of ideas about architecture from the late Neolithic period to the present.  Particular attention is given to the relationships of architectural expression, meaning, and building technology and to issues arising when architectural traditions of one culture are imposed upon or otherwise adapted by another.  Students will explore the impact of climate, economy, philosophy, social structure and technology on architecture by becoming familiar with some of the World’s major monuments in architectural history.  The course also integrates the visual arts that paralleled each era, exploring the fundamental elements of each “movement” as illustrated through aesthetic expression.

 

 

Week 1       Course Overview, Ancient Cultures

The East & the Americas

 

Week 2       Egypt,   Mesopotamia & Aegean

Ancient & Pre-Classical Architecture

 

Week 3       Greece

Classical Western Architecture

 

Week 4       Rome

Classical Western Architecture

 

Week 5       Byzantine

Early Christian & Medieval

 

Week 6       Gothic

Medieval Architecture

 

Week 7       Italian Renaissance

Renaissance Florence & Italy

 

Week 8       Late Renaissance

France & England

 

 

 

 

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Method:

Visual Slide Presentation Accompanied by Lecture

 

Text: (None Required)

History of Western Architecture, David Watkin, (Suggested)

(Note: The course’s weekly subjects follow the book’s layout in sequential chapter order.  Please read corresponding subject-chapter material prior to each class.)

History of Art, Janson, (Suggested)

 

Educational Objectives:

Establish chronological and thematic frameworks for the study of architectural history;

Inform understanding of architecture’s relationship to cultures from traditionalism to modernity;

Develop skills of description and formal and historical analysis.

Course Requirements:

Students assemble a compendium, consisting of downloads at www.ProfessorComeau.com.  A 3” “Slant-ring” notebook with plastic sheet protectors is recommended – this is basically the Professor’s book.

Research Project:

Students can select from three different projects available on the Professor’s website (link above).

 

Week 9       World Renaissance (download in Late Renais)

Europe, the Americas & the East

 

Week 10     Early American Colonial

Architecture of the Enlightenment

 

Week 11     Iron & Glass 1850-1900

Architecture of the Industrial Age

 

Week 12     Chicago School (download above-Wk 11)

The Columbian Exhibition

 

Week 13     The Modern Movement

International Style, Art Nouveau & Crafts

 

Week 14     Frank Lloyd Wright (Downloads upon request)

Organic Roots in Modernism

 

Week 15     Skyscrapers

NY Corporate Expression, the East

 

Week 16     Post-Modernism & Current Trends

World Trends Today (No Downloads)

 

                        Research Project  << Download!