Writing About Architecture and the American City
Art History 009 303
Spring 2000

Tu - Jan 18 Welcome
Th - Jan 20 The Writing Process Informal 1
In-class writing 1
Tu - Jan 25 Urban History
Kevin Lynch, Good City Form (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998): 5-36.
Informal 2
Th - Jan 27 Thesis Statements Informal 3
Tu - Feb 1 Camillo Sitte and the Birth of Modern City Planning
George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning, (NY: Rizzoli, 1986): 52-60, 141-150, 151-157; skim 71-90.
Th - Feb 3 Formal Analysis - Part 1
James F. O'Gorman, ABC of Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. (whole book)
Tu - Feb 8 Introductory Paragraphs Formal 1, version 1
In-class writing 2
Th - Feb 10 Peer Review
Tu - Feb 15 Summary and Analysis In-class writing 3
We - Feb 16 Conferences
Th - Feb 17 Origins of the American City
John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965): 147-174, 497-526.
Informal 4
Tu - Feb 22 Frank Furness: Formal Analysis - Part 2
George E. Thomas Frank Furness: The Complete Works. 2nd edition (NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996): 13-51.
Th - Feb 24 Library Visit Formal 1, version 2
Tu - Feb 29 Sidewalks
Jane Jacobs, The Life and Death of Great American Cities 1961 (Reprint: New York: Vintage Books, 1992): 29-54.
Informal 5
Th - Mar 2 Concluding Paragraphs In-class writing 4
Tu - Mar 7 What is Bad Writing? Formal 2, version 1
Th - Mar 9 Peer review
Th - Mar 9
Fr - Mar 10
Conferences
Mar 11 -
Mar 19
Spring Break
Begin collecting research materials
Tu - Mar 21 The Organic City
Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991): 43-93.
Informal 6
In-class writing 5
Th - Mar 24 Wordiness In-class writing 6
Tu - Mar 28
Citation Jeopardy
Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers 6th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996): chap. 5, 8, 9 & 11.
Formal 2, version 2
Th - Mar 30 Do Cities Need Old Buildings?
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961; Reprint: New York: Vintage Books, 1992): 187-199.
"1600 block of Sansom" Radio Times, March 13, 2000
Kay Weeks, "Are We Losing Authenticity to Recover Appearances?" CRM vol. 17, no. 5 (1994): 26-32. (desk pamphlet)
Mitchell Schwarzer, "Myths of Permanence" Journal of Architectural Education vol. 48, no.1(September 1994): 2-11. (desk pamphlet)
In-class writing 7
Tu - Apr 4 Transitions Informal 7
In-class writing 8
Th - Apr 6 Louis Sullivan
James F. O'Gorman, Three American Architects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991): 69-111.
Mo - Apr 10 Conferences
Tu - Apr 11 Utopian Plans
John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965): 439-474.
Informal 8
Th - Apr 13 Scientific Writing & Reader-Based Prose
Linda Flower, "Writer-Based Prose" In The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, 1st ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1981. (desk pamphlet)
George Gopen and Judith Swan, "The Science of Scientific Writing," American Scientist, vol. 78 (Nov Dec 1990): 550-558. (desk pamphlet)
In-class writing 9
Tu - Apr 18 Frank Lloyd Wright
James F. O'Gorman, Three American Architects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991): 113-154.
Formal 3, version 1
Th - Apr 20 Urban Parks
Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992): 211-237.
Informal 9
Tu - Apr 25 Peer Review
Th - Apr 27 Robert Butler, "The City as Liberating Space in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," in The City in African- American Literature, (London: Associated University Press, 1995). (desk pamphlet) Informal 10
Fri - May 5 Formal 3, version 2

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