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Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Introduction
  • The Paris Hotel (1550-1830)
  • The London Townhouse (1550-1830)
  • The NY Rowhouse and Tenement (1625-1875)
  • The NY Apartment (1875-1925)
  • The Paris Apartment (1850-1925)
  • Modern Housing Projects (1925-1975)
  • Seminar I
  • Seminar II
  • Seminar III
  • Seminar IV

Readings

  • LEC #: 2 · TOPICS: The Paris Hotel (1550-1830) · READINGS: Dennis, M. Court and Garden: from the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986, pp. 1-177. ISBN: 0262040824.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: The London Townhouse (1550-1830) · READINGS: Summerson, J. Georgian London . London, UK: Pleiades Books, 1945. ISBN: 0300089880.
    Reading assignment
  • Lockwood, C. Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Row House, 1783-1929 . New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1972. ISBN: 0847825221.
    Listed reading
  • Stern, R. A. M., G. Gilmartin, and J. M. Massengale. New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism, 1890-1915 . New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publishers, 1983, pp. 279-356. ISBN: 0847805115.
    Listed reading
  • Plunz, R. A History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990, pp. 1-313. ISBN: 0231062974.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: The NY Apartment (1875-1925) · READINGS: Stern, R. A. M., G. Gilmartin, and J. M. Massengale. New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism, 1890-1915 . New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publishers, 1983, pp. 384-477. ISBN: 0847805115.
    Reading assignment
  • Listed reading
  • Daly, C., ed. Revue générale de l’architecture et des travaux publics . Paris, France: Paulin Hetzel, 1839. (Out of print.)
    Listed reading
  • ———. Architecture privée au XIXième siècle sous Napoléon III; nouvelles maisons de Paris et des environs . Paris, France: Guimard, 1864. (Out of print.)
    Listed reading
  • Lipstadt, H. “Housing the Bourgeoisie: César Daly and the Ideal Home.” With an introduction by A. Vidler. Oppositions 8 (Spring 1977): 33-47.
    Listed reading
  • Pinckney, D. H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. ISBN: 0691051364.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Modern Housing Projects (1925-1975) · READINGS: Sherwood, Roger. Modern Housing Prototypes . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. ISBN: 0674579410.
    Reading assignment
  • Blondel, J. F. Architecture françoise . Paris, France: 1752. Reprint, Paris, France: 1904.
    Listed reading
  • Du Cerceau , J. A. Livre d’architecture . Paris, France: 1559. Reprint, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
    Listed reading
  • Krafft , J. C., and N. Ransonnette. Plans, coupes élévations des plus belles mainsons et des hôtels construits à Paris et dans les environs . Paris, n.d. (c.1802?). Paris, Facsimile reprint, 1909.
    Listed reading
  • Le Muet, P. Manière de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes . Second enlarged edition, Paris, France: 1647.
    Listed reading
  • Marot, J. L’Architecture françoise (Grand Marot) . Paris, France: c. 1670. Reprint, Paris, France: 1970.
    Listed reading
  • Serlio, S. Sesto libro de architettura . (Unpublished, n.d.; before 1554). Two manuscripts exist for this book: the Munich manuscript has been published in facsimile with an introduction and notes by M. Rosci as Il Trattato di architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Milan, Italy: I.T.E.C., 1966; the Columbia University manuscript has been published in facsimile with a foreword by A. K. Placzek, introduction by J. S. Ackerman, and a text by M. N. Rosenfeld as Sebastiano Serlio on Domestic Architecture New York, NY: Architectural History Foundation, c.1978.
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  • Cameron, R., and A. Cooke. Above London . San Francisco, CA: Cameron and Company, 1980.
    Listed reading
  • Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
    Listed reading
  • Jackson-Stops, G., and J. Pipkin. The English Country House: A Grand Tour . Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1985.
    Listed reading
  • Jones, E., and C. Woodward. A Guide to the Architecture of London . London, UK: Phoenix Illustrated, 1983.
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  • Sheppard, F. H. W. The Survey of London . London, UK: Athlone Press for London City Council, 1957.
    Listed reading
  • Summerson, J. Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.
    Listed reading
  • Sykes, C. S. Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses . New York, NY: Viking Press, 1986.
    Listed reading
  • Wiekensons, D. Architectural Theory and Practice from Alberti to Ledoux . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
    Listed reading
  • Cromley, E. C. Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
    Listed reading
  • Ford, J. Slums and Housing . Vols. 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936.
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  • Stern, R. A. M., G. Gilmartin, and T. Mellin. New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars . New York, NY: RizzoIi International Publishers, 1987.
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