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CLASS	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction	Lucian (c.125-180 AD). From The Dream or Lucian's Career. From Works. Translated by A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Editions, vol. III, 1921, pp. 213-233.
2	The Making of the Quasi-divine Architect	Vitruvius (born c. 84 BC). Preface to De architectura libri decem, or On Architecture (written c. 33-14 BC). Translated by Frank Granger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Editions, book I, chap. 1: "On the Training of Architects", 1970, pp. 3-25.
3	Architecture and Social Anxiety	Alberti (1414-1472). Excerpt from De re aedificatoria, or On the Art of Building in Ten Books (completed c. 1450). Translated by Joseph Rykwert et. al. Book IX, chap. 10, "What it is that an Architect ought principally to consider, and what Sciences he ought to be acquainted with." Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1998. "Dream." In Intercoenlaes (1438). Translated by Mark Jarzombek.
4	Defining the New Profession	Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (1764-1820). "Letter from to Robert Mills" (1781-1855), dated July 12, 1806, Washington, from Correspondence (edition), pp. 239-244.
5	The Meta-profession of "Total Architecture"	Gropius, Walter (1883-1969). Passages from The Scope of Total Architecture. New York, 1945. Meyer, Hannes. "Building." Hans M. Wingler, Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1978, pp. 153-154.
6	Modernism: The "Good" versus the "Bad"	Loos, Adolf (1870-1933). "Architecture." In Sämtliche Schriften. Translated by Mark Jarzombek. Vienna: Herold: pp. 301-318. [Originally published in 1910.]
7	Debate 1 "The architect must embody some higher principles than those defined by society at large." versus "The architect must be committed to the social contract of the profession."
8	Knowledge, Education, Identity and Ethics: The Individual in Society	Plato (428-348/7 BC). "The Myth of the Cave." In The Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Edition.
9	Ethics and Aesthetics: Mimesis in Classical Thought	Plato. "Collected Dialogues, Book VI." In The Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Edition, pp. 720-767, 819-827.
10	Taking Control of Creativity: Work versus Product	Saint Augustine (354-430). De musica.
11	Kant's Aesthetic Theory	Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804). Critique of Judgment. Translated with intro. and notes by J.H. Bernard. (London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd., 2nd rev. ed., 1914): Part I, Division I, Book II: 'Deduction of Pure Aesthetical Judgments', 'On Taste, Genius, and Art (paragraphs 40-50)'; 'On the Beautiful Arts' (paragraphs 51-54).
12	Continuation of Kant's Aesthetic Theory
13	Avant-garde and Kitsch	Greenberg, Clement (1909-1997). "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." First published in the Partisan Review (Fall 1939). Reprinted in Volume I, Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism: Perceptions and Judgments 1939-1944. Edited by John O'Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 5-22.
14	Modernism in the Streets	Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867). "The Painter of Modern Life." In The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. London: Phaidon, 1964. Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940). Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism. London: NLB, 1973.
15	Debate 2 "Architecture derives from, and belongs to, the higher realm of nature." versus "Architecture speaks to the question of use and culture."
16	The Impact of Kant on Later Aesthetic Theory	Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1867). Passages from Poetry and Experience. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Vischer, Robert (1847-1933). "On the Optical Sense of Form: a Contribution to Aesthetics." Written 1873 from Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Eleftherios Ikonomou. Translated and introd. Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.
17	The Impact of Kant on the Definition of History	Kuhn, Thomas. Passages from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Trachtenberg, Marvin. Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernism: the Western Tradition. New York: H. N. Abram, 1986.
18	From Kant to Psychology	Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Dynamics of Architectural Form based on the 1975 Mary Duke Biddle lectures at Cooper Union. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
19	Formalism as Context	Rudofsky, Bernard (1905-??). Architecture without Architects: a Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, Doubleday, 1965. Eisenman, Peter (1932-). Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier. New York: Wittenborn, 1972.
20	Phenomenology and the Search for an Alternative "Science"	Husserl, Edmund (1859-1938): from Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, trans. W. R. Boyce Gibson (New York: Collier, 1969). Originally published in 1913. Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy. Translated by Quentin Lauer. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
21	Phenomenology and Architecture	Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976). "Building Dwelling Thinking" In Basic Writings. Translated by David Farrell Krell. San Francisco, 1977, pp. 347-363. Originally published in 1951. Norberg-Schultz, Christian (??-2000). Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
22	Debate 3 Diane Ghirardo and Peter Eisenman's Respective Positions in the Controversy Surrounding Ghirardo's Article "Eisenman's Bogus Avant-Garde" Published in PA, November 1994
23	The Crisis of Textuality in the History and Theory of Architecture	Jarzombek, Mark. "The Disciplinary Dislocations of Architectural History." In The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (Winter 1999), 488-493.
24	Final Exam