HISTORY OF ART 781 (Technology)					REVISED SCHEDULE
Prof. David B. Brownlee							
Fall 1996
dbrownle@mail.sas.upenn.edu




OFFICE HOURS:  Mondays 3-5, and Thursdays 3-5 in Jaffe 210.  Please make 
appointments in advance in the History of Art office.




5 Sept.	Introduction: the conundrum of the romantic materialist and the 		
problem of architectural language

9 Sept.	The international exhibitions (short reports)

16 Sept.	The Crystal Palace

23 Sept.	Bridges and railways

30 Sept.	Concrete

7 Oct.	The skyscraper

14 Oct.	No meeting (fall break)

21 Oct.	Pugin and Ruskin

28 Oct.	Viollet-le-Duc

4 Nov.	Semper

11 Nov.	Student reports

18 Nov.	Student reports

25 Nov.	Student reports

2 Dec.	Student reports

9 Dec.	Student reports


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HISTORY OF ART 781 (Technology)				RESERVE BOOK LIST
Prof. David B. Brownlee						Fall 1996


American Association of Architectural Bibliographers.  Papers, vol. 4, 
Meeks, 	Clerisseau, Biltmore, Expositions.  Charlottesville: University 
Press of Virginia, 1967. Z 5941 A5 vol. 4

Adriana Baculo, et al. Le grandi esposizioni del mondo, 1851-1900.  
Naples: 	Liguori, 1988.  NA 6750 A1 B32 1988

Patrick Beaver.  The Crystal Palace, 1851-1936: Portrait of Victorian 	
Enterprise.  London: Hugh Evelyn, 1970.  NA 6750 L6 C73

Centre Georges Pompidou.  All Stations: A Journey through 150 Years of 
Railway 	History.  (Tr. of Le temps des gares)  New York: Thames 
and Hudson, 1981.  x

_______. Architecture et industrie: Passé et avenir d'un mariage de 
raison.  	Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983.  NA 6400 A73 1984

Jack Chard.  Making Iron and Steel: The Historic Processes (1700-1900). 	
Bordentown, NJ: Roebling Chapter of the Society for Industrial 
Archaeology, 1986. desk pamphlet

Peter Collins.  Concrete, Vision of a New Architecture: A Study of 
Auguste 	Perret and His Precursors.  New York: Horizon Press, 
1959.  NA 4125 C6

Carl Condit.  American Building Art: The Nineteenth century.  New York: 	
Oxford University Press, 1960.  TA 23 C56

_______.  The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial 
and 	Public Buildings in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925.  Chicago: 
University of Chicago Press, 1964.  NA 735 C4 C6 1964

Elias Cornell.  The Architectural History of International Exhibitions.  	
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. x

The Crystal Palace Exhibition.  London, 1851.  Reprint, New York: Dover, 
1970.  	NK 520 G7 L62 1970 

John Gay. Cast Iron: Architecture and Ornament, Function and Fantasy.   	
London: John Murray, 1985.  NK 8205 G23 1985

Sigfried Giedion.  Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in 
Ferro-	concrete.  Leipzig, 1928. Tr., J. Duncan Berry.  Santa Monica, 
1995. 
	NA 1048.5 F85 G5413 1995

_______.  Space, Time, and Architecture, 5th ed.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard 	
University 	Press, 1967.  NA 203 G5 1967

John Gloag and Derek Bridgwater.  A History of Cast Iron in Building.  
London: 	Allen and Unwin, 1948.  TH 1610 G4

Henry-Russell Hitchcock.  Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, 2 
vols.  	(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954)  724.142 H633

John Hix.  The Glass House.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974.  NA 4140 H59 
1974

Heinrich Hübsch, et al.  In What Style Should We Build?  The German 
Debate on 	Architectural Style.  Karlsruhe, 1828.   Intr and tr. 
Wolfgang Herrmann.  Santa Monica: Getty Center for the History of Art and 
the Humanities, 1992.  NA 2500 I5 1992

Romano Jodice.  L'architettura del ferro: l'Italia (1796-1914).  Rome: 	
Bulzoni, 1985.  x

Edgar Jones.  Industrial Architecture in Britain, 1750-1939.  New York: 
Facts 	on File, 1985.  NA 6403 G7 J66 1985

Marc-Antoine Laugier.  Essay on Architecture.  Paris, 1753.  Tr. Wolfgang 
and 	Anni Herrmann.  Los Angeles: Hennessey, 1977.  NA 2515 L2913

Le Corbusier.  Towards a New Architecture.  Tr., Frederick Etchells. New 
York: 	Dover 1986.  NA 2520 L3613 1986

Bertrand Lemoine.  L'architecture du fer, France: XIXe siècle.  Seyssel: 
Champ 	Vallon, 1986.  NA 1047 L55	

Bernard Marrey.  Le fer à Paris: architectures. Paris: Picard, 1989.  NA 
1050 	M34 1989

_______.  Les ponts modernes: 18e-19e siècles.  Paris: Picard, 1990.  TG 
18 	M37 1990

Leo Marx. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal 
In 	America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.  E 169.1 M35

Carroll L. V. Meeks.  The Railroad Station. New Haven: Yale University 
Press, 	1956.  Reprint, New York; Dover, 1995.  NA 6315 E85 M44 1995

Nikolaus Pevsner.  Some Architectural Writers of the Nineteenth Century  	
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972)  NA 645 P42 1972

________.  Pioneers of Modern Design.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.  NA 
6450 	P4 1964

A. W. N. Pugin. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture  
(London: 	John Neale, 1841; rpt. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969)  NA 
440 P9 1969

Giulio Roisecco.  L'architettura del ferro: La Francia (1715-1914). 
Rome: 	Bulzoni, 1973.  x

_______.  L'architettura del ferro: L'Inghilterra (1688-1914).  Rome: 
Bulzoni, 	1972.  x

L. T. C. Rolt. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography.  London and New 
York: 	Longmans Green, 1957.  Van pelt 926.2 B33R

_______. Thomas Telford. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1985.  TA 140 T3 R6 1985
 
John Ruskin.  Seven Lamps of Architecture.  London, 1849.  New York: 
Noonday, 	1961.  NA 2550 R75 1961

_______.  The Stones of Venice.  3 vols.  London 1851-1853   Reprint, 
New 	York: Garland, 1979.  NA 1121 V4 R7 1979	

Gottfried Semper.  Der Stil in den technischen and tektonischen Künsten 
oder 	praktische Ästhetik: ein Handbuch für den Techniker, Künstler und 
Kunstfreunde.  2 vols.  Frankfurt: Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 
1860; Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1863.  Reprint, Mittenwald: Mäander, 1977.  
NK 1105 S4 1977

_______.  The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings.  Ed. and 
tr. 	Harry Mallgrave.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.  NA 
2500 S46 1989

Richard Sheppard.  Cast Iron in Building.  London, 1945.  x

Samuel Smiles.  Lives of the Engineers.  4 vols.  London: John Murray, 
1862-	1868.  Van pelt TA 139 S64 1862

Frances H. Steiner.  French Iron Architecture.  Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984.  NA 
1047 	S7 1984

Louis Sullivan.  Kindergarten Chats.  New York: Dover, 1979.  NA 2560 S82 
1979  
Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.  Discourses on Architecture, 2 vols., 
tr. 	Benjamin Bucknall (New York: Grove Press, 1959)  NA 2520 V5613 1959


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