Covering the built environment in the United States from the Civil War to post-World War II in 6 weeks, this course is ambitious and not for the faint-hearted.
Topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and Victorian and Queen Anne periods, the Prairie School and California Modern, the establishment of the International Style, and the arrival of the European avant-garde – Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Eliel Saarinen – in architectural schools after World War II.
Lectures follow the development of specific movements – Stick Style, Art Deco or City Beautiful – while also tracing the impact of individual architects and their careers: Henry Hobson Richardson, William Le Baron Jenney, Daniel Burnham, Frank Furness, John Wellborn Root, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, Charles and Henry Greene, Irving Gill, Bertram Goodhue, Richard Morris Hunt, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles McKim, Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead, & White, William Lescaze, Raymond Hood, Paul Cret, I. M. Pei, Louis Kahn.
Please note: Wednesday, April 23 is SKIPPED OVER during this 6-session class.
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Instructor: Philip Jacks
Philip Jacks is a retiring professor from George Washington University.
Photo credit: Philip Jacks
