107-065 The Representation of Architecture

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Prerequisites

Usually 37.5 points of Art History at second/third year, see Prerequisites

Semester

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Subject Description

This subject deals with architecture as the subject of representations. It focuses on a series of topics over a wide period of western art, with the main emphasis being on the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Issues central to the subject include: the techniques painters, draftsmen, model makers, and engravers have employed to represent buildings; the role of linear and other perspectives in the graphical representation of architecture; the ways in which architects have used representations as part of the design process; and critical techniques which have been developed to enable the non-professional to articulate his or her response to architecture. Topics may include: the Hynerotomachie Poliphili and the erotics of architecture; ideal architecture in the 15th century; architectural drawing and models; Pieter Saenredam and the Dutch architectural piece; visionary vaults: Andrea Pozzo and the quadratura tradition; South German architectural illusionism; architecture and the theatre; the architecture of the academies from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to Otto Wagner; Piranesi and visionary architecture; Sir John Soane and J. M. Gandy; the representation of landscape architecture; the triumph of pictorialism: architectural rendering in the nineteenth century; computer graphics and the rendering of architecture today.

Assessment

An essay of 4000 words for 3rd-year: 5000 words for 4th-year.