FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, LUCKNOW

PROGRAM FOR SUBJECT WISE COMPLETION OF SUBJECT OF EVEN SEMESTER 2020

SUBJECT: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE V

CODE: RAR 607
NAME OF FACULTY: Prof. Gaurav Singh
WEEK DATES NO OF
TOPIC SUBMISSION REMARKS
CLASSES
1 07.01.2020 Picturesque Lecture & Report on the
3
topic
Neo- classical architecture
Purity and structural honesty of
antiquity preferred over Seminar related to
14.01.2020
ornamentation and exaggeration of topic/Sketches 3
2
Baroque. Representation of ancient
Roman monuments in imaginary
compositions.
Archaeological purism and
21.01.2020- importance of pictorial values
3 in historical settings. Sheet/Sketches related to
28.01.2020 3
Study of important palaces and topic
public buildings in Britain and
France.
Enlightenment and beginnings of
Modern Belief in creation of ‘new’
and ‘ideal’ world through return to
04.02.2020- fundamentals, ‘true’ and ‘original’
4 Lecture & Report on the
11.02.2020 values. Romanticizing elementary 3
topic
geometrical forms with
undecorated surfaces.

13.02.2020-
5 1st Class Test 3
15.02.2020
Enlightenment and beginnings of
Modern Art Nouveau. Repetitive,
Orthogonal, skeletal systems for
Lecture/Seminar & Sketches
6 18.02.2020 horizontal and vertical expansion.
related to topic 3
Latter attempts to dissociate
references to past styles.

Modern Architecture
Social intentions and search for
ideal world. Pluralism in place of
past unity of styles. Search for
25.02.2020 Lecture & Report & sketches
7 paradigms in historical sources: It 3
on the topic
return to fundamentals and origins
in geometry, nature and paradigms
of technology.

Lecture, Seminar &

Modern Architecture Thoughts and works of frank Lloyd Wright, Walter
Sheet/Sketches related to
8 03.03.2020 Groupies, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, Dutch
3 De
topic
Stijl Italian futurists and Russian Constructivists.
Post Modern Architecture
Post Modern Architecture as a
9 revision of Modern architecture Lecture & Report on the
17.03.2020 3
and resistance to functional topic
containers of 60’s.
 19.03.2020-
2nd Class Test 3
10 21.03.2020
Post Modern Architecture Seminar & Sheet/Sketches
11 24-03-2020 related
Objective, representational and emphasis to topic Pluralistic and differing
on content. 3
trends.
Post Modern – Historicism
Rooted to place and history.
Regards of expression: Lecture & Report and
12 31-03-2020 3
ornaments, symbolism and Sketches on the topic
context with irony and humour

Neo- Modern
Disregard historical imaginary to
recapture ideas for modern
architecture of 20’s. Hi-tech metal
Lecture & Report on the
1 07-04-2020 abstractions of Richard Rogers, 3
topic/ Sketches
Normal Foster, showing structure
and equipment as implied
ornament.

Neo- Neo Modern

The early works of New York Five
Seminar & Sheet/Sketches
including later works of RicharMier as
14 14.04.2020 related to topic 3
complicated, exaggerated and
sophisticated revival of the modern grid
and Corbusier’s geometry..
Deconstructive
Narrative and representational. Lecture & Report on the
15 21.04.2020 3
Sources in Russian Constructivism. topic/ Sketches

Deconstructive Non perfection in

the works of Frank Gehry, Peter
Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Seminar & Sheet/Sketches
16 28.04.2020 Daniel Libeskind, questioning related to topic 3
traditional purity of form,
geometry and structure.

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