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Winter 2023
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE CODE: ARC181H1S L0101
COURSE TITLE: Technologies of Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism and Art I
CLASSROOM LOCATION: BT101
CLASS HOURS: Thursdays, 9am-11am + Assigned Tutorial
INSTRUCTOR NAME: John Harwood
INSTRUCTOR EMAIL: John.Harwood@daniels.utoronto.ca)
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays, 1pm-2.30pm, Daniels Café
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
...ideas are not stockpiled in heaven to be contemplated by
philosophy...new ideas are constantly appearing in the heat
of theory’s battle against a raw, resistant world.
—Vilém Flusser
...a city is hardware, in all senses.
—Reinhold Martin
This course is intended to introduce undergraduate students to the history and theory of technics as it
relates to all design disciplines. It is thematically organized; rather than pursue a progressive and
historicist narrative of the development of ever-more sophisticated technologies and then chart those in
the progression of architectural “styles,” the course will follow a method that describes all cultural
artifacts—including, especially, architecture, landscape, urbanism, and art—as in and of themselves
technical. They are the product of highly articulated techniques; they are always not simply things but
also media; and, lastly, their continued significance depends entirely upon their repeated re-mediation.
The course is organized into four sections, each of which identify certain technical functions
characteristic of design techniques: (re)producing (which includes planning, mapping, writing, copying,
and mass producing); lifting (which includes building, ornamenting, mining, and harvesting), depicting
(which includes all manner of representational techniques), and moving (which includes infrastructures,
corporate formations, and machinery for reducing what economists call “transaction costs”).
Throughout the course, the central focus of the course will be on beginning to understand the
basic, constitutive elements of knowledge that constitute architecture; however, whenever appropriate,
lectures and discussion sections will treat highly significant artifacts from the history of landscape,
urbanism, art, and various industrial and infrastructural products that are not usually classed with the first
four categories.
Course Objectives
By the conclusion of the course, students will have a broad familiarity with the main lines of technical
development in the history of architecture, landscape, urbanism, and art, including the economic,
philosophical and aesthetic concepts underpinning those developments. They will also possess
rudimentary knowledge of technical and architectural historiography, be able to maintain a rigorously
organized annotated bibliography of the assigned readings, and be capable of producing a clear précis of
a complex text.
Assignments and Important Dates
In addition to completing all of the assigned readings for the course, attending lectures and discussion
sections, there are two main assignments for the course: 1. an annotated bibliography of all assigned
required readings (noted in the schedule of classes below and marked with an asterisk); and 2. two précis
on any of two assigned or recommended readings listed in the schedule of classes below. More precise
instructions on these assignments will be given in class, and guidelines for how to complete both
assignments will be issued in the second week of class.
There will also be a midterm exam, administered during tutorial, which will be composed of multiple
choice questions based upon the content of lectures and readings.
Attendance will be kept by the teaching assistants. Each student must sign in at each lecture and
discussion section after the first lecture (i.e. attendance will be kept from Weeks 2 through 12). Any
more than two unexcused absences will result in a failing grade in the course. An excused absence is
given only if the student notifies his or her assigned teaching assistant in advance of the course session
to be missed, or if the student presents written evidence for her/his absence (e.g. from a medical
professional, academic advisor, etc.).
A list of all sessional dates can be found at: https://daniels.calendar.utoronto.ca/sessional-dates
For any and all discrepancies between the schedule of classes below and the dates listed on the website,
please consider the website to be correct.
General Note on Evaluation
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the University Assessment and Grading Practices Policy.
Please refer to the policy located on the governing council website:
http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Governing_Council/policies.htm#G
Evaluation
In addition to basic participation in the course (i.e., completing the assigned readings, attending class
meetings, and contributing to class discussions), there are two primary assignments for the course, each
of which is described in greater detail in an appendix to this course outline.
Fulfillment of the basic participation requirement counts for 25% of each student’s grade in the course.
The first assignment is an annotated bibliography, which is an organized bibliography accompanied
by specific notes on the text. This should be maintained throughout the course of the semester, and will
be evaluated on the following basis: 1. Does the annotated bibliography conform to the bibliographic
standards laid out in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th or 16th ed.)? 2. Does the annotated bibliography
contain notes for each required reading in the schedule of classes? No qualitative assessment of the
notes will figure in the assessment of the grade. The annotated bibliography counts for 25% of each
student’s grade in the course.
The second assignment is to produce, by the end of the term, two separate précis of two separate
texts from the required or recommended reading for the course. The length of the précis depends
somewhat upon the overall length of the text being summarized, but as a rule the précis should be no
longer than three pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. Specific guidelines on précis writing will be
distributed in the second week of the class, and both the professor and the teaching assistants will also
devote class time to discussing how best to write an effective précis. The two précis count for 25% of
each student’s grade in the course.
The midterm exam counts for 25% of each student’s grade in the course.
Late Work
All assignments are due in class or submitted via e-mail at the specified time and date. Late submission
will result in a 10% deduction of each assignment’s total grade per business day (excluding weekends).
In the case of illness or other special circumstance, notification should be given to the professor and the
Registrar as soon as possible and before the deadline in question; where required, the official University
of Toronto Verification of Student Illness or Injury form should be submitted.
Final Due Date
Students are not permitted to submit work past the 12 April 2018 deadline unless they have formally (i.e.
in writing) requested and received special permission from the Daniels Faculty administration to do so.
There is no guarantee that the professor will approve such a request, but every provision will be granted
under the appropriate circumstances.
Preparedness at UofT
Students are advised to consult the University’s preparedness site (http://www.preparedness.utoronto.ca)
for information and regular updates regarding procedures for emergency planning.
ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS:
Accessibility Services provides academic accommodations in collaboration with students, staff and faculty
to support students with documented disabilities in equal opportunities to achieve academic and co-
curricular success. If you are a student who identifies with one or more of the broad categories below, we
encourage you to register with Accessibility Services (http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/). For any
questions or assistance, please see the staff in the Office of the Registrar and Student Services.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Brain Injury and Concussion
• Chronic Health
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Learning Disability
• Mental Health
• Mobility and Functional
• Low Vision / Legally Blind
• Temporary Injuries
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is essential to the pursuit of learning and scholarship in a university, and to ensuring
that a degree from the University of Toronto is a strong signal of each student’s individual academic
achievement. As a result, the University treats cases of cheating and plagiarism very seriously. The
University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters
(www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/policies/behaveac.htm) outlines the behaviours that constitute
academic dishonesty and the processes for addressing academic offences. Potential offences include,
but are not limited to:
In papers and assignments:
1. Using someone else’s ideas or words without appropriate acknowledgement.
2. Submitting your own work in more than one course without the permission of the instructor.
3. Making up sources or facts.
4. Obtaining or providing unauthorized assistance on any assignment.
On tests and exams:
1. Using or possessing unauthorized aids.
2. Looking at someone else’s answers during an exam or test.
3. Misrepresenting your identity.
In academic work:
1. Falsifying institutional documents or grades.
2. Falsifying or altering any documentation required by the University, including (but not limited to)
doctor’s notes.
All suspected cases of academic dishonesty will be investigated following procedures outlined in the
Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters. If you have questions or concerns about what constitutes
appropriate academic behaviour or appropriate research and citation methods, you are expected to seek
out additional information on academic integrity from your instructor or from other institutional resources
(see www.utoronto.ca/academicintegrity/resourcesforstudents.html).
For accepted methods of standard documentation formats, including electronic citation of internet sources
please see the U of T writing website at: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-
sources/documentation.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND WRITING SUPPORT:
The University of Toronto expects its students to write well, and it provides a number of resources to help.
Please consult the University of Toronto writing site (http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/) for advice and
answers to your questions about writing. Please pay special attention to:
Advice on Writing: Academic Writing
Reading and Using Sources: How Not to Plagiarize
The University of Toronto’s Code of Behavior on Academic Matters states that:
“It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:
…
(d) to represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic
examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e, to commit
plagiarism.”
The Code also states: “Wherever in the Code an offence is described as depending on ‘knowing,’ the
offence shall likewise be deemed to have been committed if the person ought reasonably to have known.”
For information about academic integrity at the University of Toronto, please see
www.academicintegrity.utoronto.ca
The Writing Centre at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
(http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/resources/writing-program) is a resource for Daniels students seeking
assistance with academic writing through tutorials and individual consultations. During the summer,
appointments are available only on Thursdays. Students may access the online appointment booking
system at: https://awc.wdw.utoronto.ca
Housed in 63 St. George Street, within the School of Graduate Studies, English Language and Writing
Support (ELWS) provides graduate students with advanced training in academic writing and speaking;
see the SGS website at: http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/english/. For advice on Academic Writing, see the
website: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice.
Daniels Faculty Writing Program, please contact writing@daniels.utoronto.ca.
The following resources may also be useful:
Sylvan Barnett, A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 5-7th edition (New York: Harper-Collins, 1997)
William Strunk Jr., E.B. White. The Elements of Style (New York: MacMillan Publishing)
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or 16th ed.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
[NB: Only readings marked with an asterisk (“*”) are required reading, and must be included in
students’ annotated bibliographies. Additional, recommended readings are listed below the titles for
each lecture or discussion section, and are not required for the annotated bibliography. That said, any
student including more than ten recommended readings in an annotated bibliography may claim
an extra credit bonus worth up to 5% on her/his final grade in the course.]
SECTION I: (RE)PRODUCING
WEEK 1: 12 January [NB: NO TUTORIAL DISCUSSION SECTIONS THIS WEEK]
Introductory Lecture: Technical Origins of Architecture, or Mimesis
* Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hickey Morgan (New York: Dover, 1917), book I,
chaps. 1-2.
* Leon Battista Alberti, The Ten Books of Architecture [The 1755 Leoni Edition] (New York: Dover, 1986),
Preface and Book I, chaps. 1-2.
Joseph Rykwert, On Adam’s House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, 2nd
ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981), esp. chaps. 1, 4 and 5.
Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture [1753, 1755], trans. Wolfgang and Anni Herrmann
(Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977), esp. “Introduction” and “General Principles of Architecture,” pp
7-14.
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures [Rede Lecture, 1959], 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008).
Thomas Pynchon, “Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?,” New York Times (28 October 1984), available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
Bernhard Siegert, “Introduction: Cultural Techniques, or, the End of the Intellectual Postwar in German
Media Theory,” in: Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real,
trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
WEEK 2: 19 January
Lecture: Planning, Printing, and Copying
* Alan Colquhoun, “Rationalism: A Philosophical Concept in Architecture,” in: Colquhoun, Modernity and
the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987 (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1989),
57-87.
* Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the
History of Architectural Theory (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), chap. 4 “Architectural Drawing in the
Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction.”
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on
Media (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008).
Robin Evans, “Translations from Drawing to Building” [1986], in: Evans, Translations from Drawing to
Building and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), 153-194.
Tutorial Discussion: “Reading” Plans, Sections and Elevations
* Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods, 2nd ed. (Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), chap. 4, “Conventional Orthogonal Terminology.”
WEEK 3: 26 January
Lecture: On Architectural Writing: Architectural Theory (Treatises and Manifestos), Criticism, and
History
* Andrew Leach, What is Architectural History? (Cambridge, Oxford and Boston: Polity, 2010), chap. 1.
* Hanno-Walter Kruft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, trans. Ronald
Taylor, Elsie Callander and Antony Wood (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994),
“Introduction: What is Architectural Theory?” pp. 13-19.
A.W.N. Pugin, Contrasts (Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press / New York: Humanities Press, 1969).
Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, trans. Michael Bullock
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971).
Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, eds., Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 2nd ed.
(Chichester, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2006).
The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New York:
George Braziller, 1993-2000).
Tutorial Discussion: Treatises and Manifestos
[NB: There is no specifically assigned reading for this class session; instead, students must find an
example of an architectural treatise or manifesto from the Shore + Moffat Library and bring either the
original or a copy to class to share with the discussion group. Further instructions will be given out in the
second week of class.]
WEEK 4: 2 February
Lecture: Industrialization
* Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York et al: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934), 9-31, 153-178.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [1776], available on-line via
the University of Toronto Libraries website in numerous editions.
Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital, trans. Joachim Redner and Robert Savage (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2014), esp. chap. 5 “Economic and Social Reproduction.”
John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783 (New York:
Routledge, 1989).
Tutorial Discussion: Toward Automation and Autonomy?
* Sigfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (New York &
London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1975), Part III: “Means of Mechanization,” pp. 46-129.
Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting [1973] (New York:
Basic Books, 1999), esp. chaps. 1-3.
Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism [2nd ed., 1975] (New York and London: Verso, 1999).
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
(Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990).
SECTION II: LIFTING
WEEK 5: 9 February
Lecture: On Walls and Openings
* Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings, trans. Harry Francis Mallgrave
and Wolfgang Herrmann (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, 2011), “The Four Elements
of Architecture” and “Science, Industry, and Art,” 74-167.
Robert Mark, ed., Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1993).
Tutorial Discussion: The Styles, and Tectonics
* Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Architecture (Cambridge, MA: 1995), “Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the
Tectonic,” pp. 1-28.
Harry Francis Mallgrave, “Introduction,” in: Gottfried Semper, Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or,
Practical Aesthetics [orig. pulb. in 2v., 1860, 1863], ed. Harry Francis Mallgrave (Santa Monica: Getty,
2004), 1-70.
Alois Riegl, Problems of Style, trans. Evelyn Kain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Meyer Schapiro, “Style,” in: A.L. Kroeber, ed., Anthropology Today (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1953).
Christopher S. Wood, “Introduction,” in: Wood, ed., The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical
Method in the 1930s (New York: Zone Books, 2000).
WEEK 6: 16 February
Lecture: On the Intelligences of Materials, or Digging, Lifting and Shooting
* Georgius Agricola [Georg Bauer], De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
(New York: Dover, 1950), preface.
Matthew C. Hunter, Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Wolfgang Ernst, “Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media,” in:
Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, eds., Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications
(Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011), 239-255.
Bernhard Siegert, Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System, trans. Kevin Repp (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1999).
Tutorial Discussion: Annotated Bibliography Workshop
[NB: There is no assigned reading for this session; please bring a hard copy of your annotated
bibliography in progress to submit to your teaching assistant.]
23 February
NO LECTURE; READING WEEK
WEEK 7: 2 March
Lecture: On Tensions and Systems, from Iron Skeletons to Wetware
* Barry Bergdoll, European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2000), chap. 7 “New Technology and Architectural Form, 1851-90.”
Carl Condit, American Building Art, Vol I: The Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press,
1960), chap. 2 “Iron Framing” and chap. 4 “The Iron Bridge Truss,” pp. 25-74, 103-162.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).
Konrad Wachsmann, The Turning Point in Building: Structure and Design (New York: Reinhold, 1961).
Jesse Reiser, Atlas of Novel Tectonics (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2004).
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, 2nd ed. (New
York: George Braziller, 1968).
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, 2nd ed. (New York:
Doubleday, 1954).
Tutorial Discussion: MIDTERM EXAM (NB: see description and rules in separate document posted
on Quercus)
WEEK 8: 9 March
Lecture: On Environments and Ecologies
* Reyner Banham, “A Home is not a House,” Art in America (April 1965), pp. 109-118, repbul. with an
introduction in: Joan Ockman and Edward Eigen, eds., Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (New York:
Columbia GSAPP / Rizzoli, 1993), pp. 370-378.
* Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press / London: The Architectural Press, 1984), 18-70.
Georges Canguilhem, “The Living and Its Milieu,” Grey Room 3 (Spring 2001): 7-31.
Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, “Monadology” [1714], in: Leibniz, Philosophical Writings, ed.
G.H.R. Parkinson, trans. Marry Morris and G.H.R. Parkinson (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons,
Ltd., 1973), pp. 179-194.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed., Kenneth Winkler (Indianapolis and
Cambridge: Hackett, 1996), pp. 33-46, 56-60, 69-78, 84-89.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage,
1973), esp. preface.
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America [1964] (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000).
Reinhold Martin, “Environment, ca. 1973,” Grey Room 14 (Winter 2004): 78-101.
Tutorial Discussion: Spaceship Earth
* Ian McHarg, Design with Nature (Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969; reprinted New York:
John Wiley & Sons, 1992), “Introduction,” “City and Countryside,” “The Plight,” “The Cast and the
Capsule,” x-6, 19-30, 43-54. [NB: The rest of the book is highly recommended!]
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth [1968] (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2008).
Mark Wigley, Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2015).
SECTION III: DEPICTING
WEEK 9: 16 March
Lecture: Euclidean Geometry and the Exploitation of Orthographic and Perspectival
Representational Systems
* Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. John R. Spencer (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1966), orig. text only.
Noam Elcott, Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Media and Modern Art (Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Reinhold Martin, “On Numbers, More or Less,” in: Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzerg, eds., The
Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture (London and New York: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2015), chap. 2.
Tutorial Discussion: Perpectives and Truth
* Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, trans. Christopher S. Wood (New York: Zone Books,
1993), 27-72.
Hubert Damisch, The Origin of Perspective, trans. John Goodman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995).
WEEK 10: 23 March
Lecture: The Orders, Ancient and Modern
* Claude Perrault, Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancient, trans. Indra
Kagis McEwen (Santa Monica, CA: Getty, 1993), original Perrault text only (avoid the introduction!).
Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).
Peter Blake, Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977).
Nader Vossoughian, “Standardization Reconsidered: Normierung in and after Ernst Neufert’s
Bauentwurfslehre (1936),” Grey Room 54 (Winter 2014): 34-55.
Tutorial Discussion: Measuring
* Anthony Gerbino & Stephen Johnson, Compass & Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in
England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), chaps. 1-4.
SECTION IV: MOVING
WEEK 11: 30 March
Lecture: On Roads and Routes, Cities and Hinterlands
* J.P.M. Pannell, Man the Builder: An Illustrated History of Engineering (New York: Crescent Books,
1964), chap. 1 “Roads.”
* Robert S. Lopez, “The Crossroads Within the Wall,” in: Oscar Handlin and John Burchard, eds., The
Historian and the City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963), 27-43.
Carl E. Schorske, “The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler,” in: ibid. 95-114.
Walter Christaller, Central Places in Southern Germany, trans. Carlisle W. Baskin (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1966).
Tutorial Discussion: Cultural Exchange, Cultural Appropriation
* Fernand Braudel, Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volume 3: The Perspective of the World
[1979], trans. Siân Reynolds (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), selections.
Vilém Flusser, “The Gesture of Making,” in: Flusser, Gestures, trans. Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 32-47.
WEEK 12: 6 April
Lecture: On the Corporate Form, and Lodging and Living in a Logistical World
* Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), chap. 1 “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of
Reality.”
* Jesse LeCavalier, The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), chap. 1 “Logistics: The First with the Most.”
Ronald H. Coase, “The Nature of the Firm (1937),” in: Coase, The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution,
and Development, ed. Oliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter (New York: Oxford University Press,
1993).
Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2014).
John Harwood, The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (Minneapolis
and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
Peter Galison, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time (New York and London: W.W. Norton
& Co., 2003), esp. chap. 3 “The Electric Worldmap.”
Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2015).
Tutorial Discussion: Bartlebies?
* Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” Putnam’s Magazine (November and
December 1853), available at: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-
idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0002-5;didno=putn0002-
5;view=image;seq=0554;node=putn0002-5%3A15 and
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0002-
6;didno=putn0002-6;view=image;seq=0617;node=putn0002-6%3A3
13 APRIL: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TWO PRÉCIS DUE. [NB: They may be submitted
earlier! Please submit all work to your assigned teaching assistant via Quercus.]
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE CODE: ARC181H1S L0101
COURSE TITLE: Technologies of Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism and Art I
CLASSROOM LOCATION: BT101
CLASS HOURS: Thursdays, 9am-11am + Assigned Tutorial
INSTRUCTOR NAME: John Harwood
INSTRUCTOR EMAIL: John.Harwood@daniels.utoronto.ca)
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays, 1pm-2.30pm, Daniels Café
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
...ideas are not stockpiled in heaven to be contemplated by
philosophy...new ideas are constantly appearing in the heat
of theory’s battle against a raw, resistant world.
—Vilém Flusser
...a city is hardware, in all senses.
—Reinhold Martin
This course is intended to introduce undergraduate students to the history and theory of technics as it
relates to all design disciplines. It is thematically organized; rather than pursue a progressive and
historicist narrative of the development of ever-more sophisticated technologies and then chart those in
the progression of architectural “styles,” the course will follow a method that describes all cultural
artifacts—including, especially, architecture, landscape, urbanism, and art—as in and of themselves
technical. They are the product of highly articulated techniques; they are always not simply things but
also media; and, lastly, their continued significance depends entirely upon their repeated re-mediation.
The course is organized into four sections, each of which identify certain technical functions
characteristic of design techniques: (re)producing (which includes planning, mapping, writing, copying,
and mass producing); lifting (which includes building, ornamenting, mining, and harvesting), depicting
(which includes all manner of representational techniques), and moving (which includes infrastructures,
corporate formations, and machinery for reducing what economists call “transaction costs”).
Throughout the course, the central focus of the course will be on beginning to understand the
basic, constitutive elements of knowledge that constitute architecture; however, whenever appropriate,
lectures and discussion sections will treat highly significant artifacts from the history of landscape,
urbanism, art, and various industrial and infrastructural products that are not usually classed with the first
four categories.
Course Objectives
By the conclusion of the course, students will have a broad familiarity with the main lines of technical
development in the history of architecture, landscape, urbanism, and art, including the economic,
philosophical and aesthetic concepts underpinning those developments. They will also possess
rudimentary knowledge of technical and architectural historiography, be able to maintain a rigorously
organized annotated bibliography of the assigned readings, and be capable of producing a clear précis of
a complex text.
Assignments and Important Dates
In addition to completing all of the assigned readings for the course, attending lectures and discussion
sections, there are two main assignments for the course: 1. an annotated bibliography of all assigned
required readings (noted in the schedule of classes below and marked with an asterisk); and 2. two précis
on any of two assigned or recommended readings listed in the schedule of classes below. More precise
instructions on these assignments will be given in class, and guidelines for how to complete both
assignments will be issued in the second week of class.
There will also be a midterm exam, administered during tutorial, which will be composed of multiple
choice questions based upon the content of lectures and readings.
Attendance will be kept by the teaching assistants. Each student must sign in at each lecture and
discussion section after the first lecture (i.e. attendance will be kept from Weeks 2 through 12). Any
more than two unexcused absences will result in a failing grade in the course. An excused absence is
given only if the student notifies his or her assigned teaching assistant in advance of the course session
to be missed, or if the student presents written evidence for her/his absence (e.g. from a medical
professional, academic advisor, etc.).
A list of all sessional dates can be found at: https://daniels.calendar.utoronto.ca/sessional-dates
For any and all discrepancies between the schedule of classes below and the dates listed on the website,
please consider the website to be correct.
General Note on Evaluation
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the University Assessment and Grading Practices Policy.
Please refer to the policy located on the governing council website:
http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Governing_Council/policies.htm#G
Evaluation
In addition to basic participation in the course (i.e., completing the assigned readings, attending class
meetings, and contributing to class discussions), there are two primary assignments for the course, each
of which is described in greater detail in an appendix to this course outline.
Fulfillment of the basic participation requirement counts for 25% of each student’s grade in the course.
The first assignment is an annotated bibliography, which is an organized bibliography accompanied
by specific notes on the text. This should be maintained throughout the course of the semester, and will
be evaluated on the following basis: 1. Does the annotated bibliography conform to the bibliographic
standards laid out in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th or 16th ed.)? 2. Does the annotated bibliography
contain notes for each required reading in the schedule of classes? No qualitative assessment of the
notes will figure in the assessment of the grade. The annotated bibliography counts for 25% of each
student’s grade in the course.
The second assignment is to produce, by the end of the term, two separate précis of two separate
texts from the required or recommended reading for the course. The length of the précis depends
somewhat upon the overall length of the text being summarized, but as a rule the précis should be no
longer than three pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. Specific guidelines on précis writing will be
distributed in the second week of the class, and both the professor and the teaching assistants will also
devote class time to discussing how best to write an effective précis. The two précis count for 25% of
each student’s grade in the course.
The midterm exam counts for 25% of each student’s grade in the course.
Late Work
All assignments are due in class or submitted via e-mail at the specified time and date. Late submission
will result in a 10% deduction of each assignment’s total grade per business day (excluding weekends).
In the case of illness or other special circumstance, notification should be given to the professor and the
Registrar as soon as possible and before the deadline in question; where required, the official University
of Toronto Verification of Student Illness or Injury form should be submitted.
Final Due Date
Students are not permitted to submit work past the 12 April 2018 deadline unless they have formally (i.e.
in writing) requested and received special permission from the Daniels Faculty administration to do so.
There is no guarantee that the professor will approve such a request, but every provision will be granted
under the appropriate circumstances.
Preparedness at UofT
Students are advised to consult the University’s preparedness site (http://www.preparedness.utoronto.ca)
for information and regular updates regarding procedures for emergency planning.
ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS:
Accessibility Services provides academic accommodations in collaboration with students, staff and faculty
to support students with documented disabilities in equal opportunities to achieve academic and co-
curricular success. If you are a student who identifies with one or more of the broad categories below, we
encourage you to register with Accessibility Services (http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/). For any
questions or assistance, please see the staff in the Office of the Registrar and Student Services.
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Brain Injury and Concussion
• Chronic Health
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Learning Disability
• Mental Health
• Mobility and Functional
• Low Vision / Legally Blind
• Temporary Injuries
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is essential to the pursuit of learning and scholarship in a university, and to ensuring
that a degree from the University of Toronto is a strong signal of each student’s individual academic
achievement. As a result, the University treats cases of cheating and plagiarism very seriously. The
University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters
(www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/policies/behaveac.htm) outlines the behaviours that constitute
academic dishonesty and the processes for addressing academic offences. Potential offences include,
but are not limited to:
In papers and assignments:
1. Using someone else’s ideas or words without appropriate acknowledgement.
2. Submitting your own work in more than one course without the permission of the instructor.
3. Making up sources or facts.
4. Obtaining or providing unauthorized assistance on any assignment.
On tests and exams:
1. Using or possessing unauthorized aids.
2. Looking at someone else’s answers during an exam or test.
3. Misrepresenting your identity.
In academic work:
1. Falsifying institutional documents or grades.
2. Falsifying or altering any documentation required by the University, including (but not limited to)
doctor’s notes.
All suspected cases of academic dishonesty will be investigated following procedures outlined in the
Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters. If you have questions or concerns about what constitutes
appropriate academic behaviour or appropriate research and citation methods, you are expected to seek
out additional information on academic integrity from your instructor or from other institutional resources
(see www.utoronto.ca/academicintegrity/resourcesforstudents.html).
For accepted methods of standard documentation formats, including electronic citation of internet sources
please see the U of T writing website at: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-
sources/documentation.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND WRITING SUPPORT:
The University of Toronto expects its students to write well, and it provides a number of resources to help.
Please consult the University of Toronto writing site (http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/) for advice and
answers to your questions about writing. Please pay special attention to:
Advice on Writing: Academic Writing
Reading and Using Sources: How Not to Plagiarize
The University of Toronto’s Code of Behavior on Academic Matters states that:
“It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:
…
(d) to represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic
examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e, to commit
plagiarism.”
The Code also states: “Wherever in the Code an offence is described as depending on ‘knowing,’ the
offence shall likewise be deemed to have been committed if the person ought reasonably to have known.”
For information about academic integrity at the University of Toronto, please see
www.academicintegrity.utoronto.ca
The Writing Centre at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
(http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/resources/writing-program) is a resource for Daniels students seeking
assistance with academic writing through tutorials and individual consultations. During the summer,
appointments are available only on Thursdays. Students may access the online appointment booking
system at: https://awc.wdw.utoronto.ca
Housed in 63 St. George Street, within the School of Graduate Studies, English Language and Writing
Support (ELWS) provides graduate students with advanced training in academic writing and speaking;
see the SGS website at: http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/english/. For advice on Academic Writing, see the
website: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice.
Daniels Faculty Writing Program, please contact writing@daniels.utoronto.ca.
The following resources may also be useful:
Sylvan Barnett, A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 5-7th edition (New York: Harper-Collins, 1997)
William Strunk Jr., E.B. White. The Elements of Style (New York: MacMillan Publishing)
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or 16th ed.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
[NB: Only readings marked with an asterisk (“*”) are required reading, and must be included in
students’ annotated bibliographies. Additional, recommended readings are listed below the titles for
each lecture or discussion section, and are not required for the annotated bibliography. That said, any
student including more than ten recommended readings in an annotated bibliography may claim
an extra credit bonus worth up to 5% on her/his final grade in the course.]
SECTION I: (RE)PRODUCING
WEEK 1: 12 January [NB: NO TUTORIAL DISCUSSION SECTIONS THIS WEEK]
Introductory Lecture: Technical Origins of Architecture, or Mimesis
* Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hickey Morgan (New York: Dover, 1917), book I,
chaps. 1-2.
* Leon Battista Alberti, The Ten Books of Architecture [The 1755 Leoni Edition] (New York: Dover, 1986),
Preface and Book I, chaps. 1-2.
Joseph Rykwert, On Adam’s House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, 2nd
ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981), esp. chaps. 1, 4 and 5.
Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture [1753, 1755], trans. Wolfgang and Anni Herrmann
(Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977), esp. “Introduction” and “General Principles of Architecture,” pp
7-14.
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures [Rede Lecture, 1959], 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008).
Thomas Pynchon, “Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?,” New York Times (28 October 1984), available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
Bernhard Siegert, “Introduction: Cultural Techniques, or, the End of the Intellectual Postwar in German
Media Theory,” in: Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real,
trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
WEEK 2: 19 January
Lecture: Planning, Printing, and Copying
* Alan Colquhoun, “Rationalism: A Philosophical Concept in Architecture,” in: Colquhoun, Modernity and
the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987 (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1989),
57-87.
* Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the
History of Architectural Theory (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), chap. 4 “Architectural Drawing in the
Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction.”
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on
Media (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008).
Robin Evans, “Translations from Drawing to Building” [1986], in: Evans, Translations from Drawing to
Building and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), 153-194.
Tutorial Discussion: “Reading” Plans, Sections and Elevations
* Rendow Yee, Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods, 2nd ed. (Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), chap. 4, “Conventional Orthogonal Terminology.”
WEEK 3: 26 January
Lecture: On Architectural Writing: Architectural Theory (Treatises and Manifestos), Criticism, and
History
* Andrew Leach, What is Architectural History? (Cambridge, Oxford and Boston: Polity, 2010), chap. 1.
* Hanno-Walter Kruft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, trans. Ronald
Taylor, Elsie Callander and Antony Wood (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994),
“Introduction: What is Architectural Theory?” pp. 13-19.
A.W.N. Pugin, Contrasts (Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press / New York: Humanities Press, 1969).
Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, trans. Michael Bullock
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971).
Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, eds., Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 2nd ed.
(Chichester, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Academy, 2006).
The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New York:
George Braziller, 1993-2000).
Tutorial Discussion: Treatises and Manifestos
[NB: There is no specifically assigned reading for this class session; instead, students must find an
example of an architectural treatise or manifesto from the Shore + Moffat Library and bring either the
original or a copy to class to share with the discussion group. Further instructions will be given out in the
second week of class.]
WEEK 4: 2 February
Lecture: Industrialization
* Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York et al: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934), 9-31, 153-178.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [1776], available on-line via
the University of Toronto Libraries website in numerous editions.
Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital, trans. Joachim Redner and Robert Savage (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2014), esp. chap. 5 “Economic and Social Reproduction.”
John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783 (New York:
Routledge, 1989).
Tutorial Discussion: Toward Automation and Autonomy?
* Sigfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (New York &
London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1975), Part III: “Means of Mechanization,” pp. 46-129.
Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting [1973] (New York:
Basic Books, 1999), esp. chaps. 1-3.
Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism [2nd ed., 1975] (New York and London: Verso, 1999).
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
(Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990).
SECTION II: LIFTING
WEEK 5: 9 February
Lecture: On Walls and Openings
* Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings, trans. Harry Francis Mallgrave
and Wolfgang Herrmann (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, 2011), “The Four Elements
of Architecture” and “Science, Industry, and Art,” 74-167.
Robert Mark, ed., Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1993).
Tutorial Discussion: The Styles, and Tectonics
* Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Architecture (Cambridge, MA: 1995), “Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the
Tectonic,” pp. 1-28.
Harry Francis Mallgrave, “Introduction,” in: Gottfried Semper, Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or,
Practical Aesthetics [orig. pulb. in 2v., 1860, 1863], ed. Harry Francis Mallgrave (Santa Monica: Getty,
2004), 1-70.
Alois Riegl, Problems of Style, trans. Evelyn Kain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Meyer Schapiro, “Style,” in: A.L. Kroeber, ed., Anthropology Today (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1953).
Christopher S. Wood, “Introduction,” in: Wood, ed., The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical
Method in the 1930s (New York: Zone Books, 2000).
WEEK 6: 16 February
Lecture: On the Intelligences of Materials, or Digging, Lifting and Shooting
* Georgius Agricola [Georg Bauer], De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
(New York: Dover, 1950), preface.
Matthew C. Hunter, Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Wolfgang Ernst, “Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media,” in:
Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, eds., Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications
(Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011), 239-255.
Bernhard Siegert, Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System, trans. Kevin Repp (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1999).
Tutorial Discussion: Annotated Bibliography Workshop
[NB: There is no assigned reading for this session; please bring a hard copy of your annotated
bibliography in progress to submit to your teaching assistant.]
23 February
NO LECTURE; READING WEEK
WEEK 7: 2 March
Lecture: On Tensions and Systems, from Iron Skeletons to Wetware
* Barry Bergdoll, European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2000), chap. 7 “New Technology and Architectural Form, 1851-90.”
Carl Condit, American Building Art, Vol I: The Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press,
1960), chap. 2 “Iron Framing” and chap. 4 “The Iron Bridge Truss,” pp. 25-74, 103-162.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).
Konrad Wachsmann, The Turning Point in Building: Structure and Design (New York: Reinhold, 1961).
Jesse Reiser, Atlas of Novel Tectonics (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2004).
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, 2nd ed. (New
York: George Braziller, 1968).
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, 2nd ed. (New York:
Doubleday, 1954).
Tutorial Discussion: MIDTERM EXAM (NB: see description and rules in separate document posted
on Quercus)
WEEK 8: 9 March
Lecture: On Environments and Ecologies
* Reyner Banham, “A Home is not a House,” Art in America (April 1965), pp. 109-118, repbul. with an
introduction in: Joan Ockman and Edward Eigen, eds., Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (New York:
Columbia GSAPP / Rizzoli, 1993), pp. 370-378.
* Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press / London: The Architectural Press, 1984), 18-70.
Georges Canguilhem, “The Living and Its Milieu,” Grey Room 3 (Spring 2001): 7-31.
Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, “Monadology” [1714], in: Leibniz, Philosophical Writings, ed.
G.H.R. Parkinson, trans. Marry Morris and G.H.R. Parkinson (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons,
Ltd., 1973), pp. 179-194.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed., Kenneth Winkler (Indianapolis and
Cambridge: Hackett, 1996), pp. 33-46, 56-60, 69-78, 84-89.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage,
1973), esp. preface.
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America [1964] (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000).
Reinhold Martin, “Environment, ca. 1973,” Grey Room 14 (Winter 2004): 78-101.
Tutorial Discussion: Spaceship Earth
* Ian McHarg, Design with Nature (Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1969; reprinted New York:
John Wiley & Sons, 1992), “Introduction,” “City and Countryside,” “The Plight,” “The Cast and the
Capsule,” x-6, 19-30, 43-54. [NB: The rest of the book is highly recommended!]
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth [1968] (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2008).
Mark Wigley, Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2015).
SECTION III: DEPICTING
WEEK 9: 16 March
Lecture: Euclidean Geometry and the Exploitation of Orthographic and Perspectival
Representational Systems
* Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. John R. Spencer (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1966), orig. text only.
Noam Elcott, Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Media and Modern Art (Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Reinhold Martin, “On Numbers, More or Less,” in: Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzerg, eds., The
Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture (London and New York: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2015), chap. 2.
Tutorial Discussion: Perpectives and Truth
* Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, trans. Christopher S. Wood (New York: Zone Books,
1993), 27-72.
Hubert Damisch, The Origin of Perspective, trans. John Goodman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995).
WEEK 10: 23 March
Lecture: The Orders, Ancient and Modern
* Claude Perrault, Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancient, trans. Indra
Kagis McEwen (Santa Monica, CA: Getty, 1993), original Perrault text only (avoid the introduction!).
Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).
Peter Blake, Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn’t Worked (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977).
Nader Vossoughian, “Standardization Reconsidered: Normierung in and after Ernst Neufert’s
Bauentwurfslehre (1936),” Grey Room 54 (Winter 2014): 34-55.
Tutorial Discussion: Measuring
* Anthony Gerbino & Stephen Johnson, Compass & Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in
England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), chaps. 1-4.
SECTION IV: MOVING
WEEK 11: 30 March
Lecture: On Roads and Routes, Cities and Hinterlands
* J.P.M. Pannell, Man the Builder: An Illustrated History of Engineering (New York: Crescent Books,
1964), chap. 1 “Roads.”
* Robert S. Lopez, “The Crossroads Within the Wall,” in: Oscar Handlin and John Burchard, eds., The
Historian and the City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963), 27-43.
Carl E. Schorske, “The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler,” in: ibid. 95-114.
Walter Christaller, Central Places in Southern Germany, trans. Carlisle W. Baskin (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1966).
Tutorial Discussion: Cultural Exchange, Cultural Appropriation
* Fernand Braudel, Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volume 3: The Perspective of the World
[1979], trans. Siân Reynolds (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), selections.
Vilém Flusser, “The Gesture of Making,” in: Flusser, Gestures, trans. Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 32-47.
WEEK 12: 6 April
Lecture: On the Corporate Form, and Lodging and Living in a Logistical World
* Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), chap. 1 “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of
Reality.”
* Jesse LeCavalier, The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), chap. 1 “Logistics: The First with the Most.”
Ronald H. Coase, “The Nature of the Firm (1937),” in: Coase, The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution,
and Development, ed. Oliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter (New York: Oxford University Press,
1993).
Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2014).
John Harwood, The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (Minneapolis
and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
Peter Galison, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time (New York and London: W.W. Norton
& Co., 2003), esp. chap. 3 “The Electric Worldmap.”
Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard
University Press, 2015).
Tutorial Discussion: Bartlebies?
* Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” Putnam’s Magazine (November and
December 1853), available at: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-
idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0002-5;didno=putn0002-
5;view=image;seq=0554;node=putn0002-5%3A15 and
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0002-
6;didno=putn0002-6;view=image;seq=0617;node=putn0002-6%3A3
13 APRIL: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TWO PRÉCIS DUE. [NB: They may be submitted
earlier! Please submit all work to your assigned teaching assistant via Quercus.]
