Notes by Lecture Time

  • Week One
    • Lecture 1 - Enlightenment
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: Enlightenment (Age of Reason), architecture parlante, "primitive hut", pendentive
    • Lecture 2 - From the Picturesque to the Industrial Revolution
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: Chinoiserie, folly, picturesque, sublime, Gothic Revival
  • Week Two
    • Lecture 3 - Beaux Arts
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: style, Beaux Arts, atelier, esquisse, Prix de Rome
    • Lecture 4 - New Urban Forms
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: None listed on the Powerpoint
  • Week Three
    • Lecture 5 - Birth of the Skyscraper
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: curtain wall, Chicago window, spandrel, Sullivan’s skyscraper typology: “form ever follow function”, architectural terra cotta
    • Lecture 6 - World Capitals
      • List of Buildings:
      • Vocabulary: Laws of the Indies, Zhou Li, jian

Extra Notes

  • Midterm One
    • Study Questions

Lecture One

A Quick Overview

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Start of Enlightment

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