This syllabus is valid: 2015-08-24
and until further notice
Course code: 5AR132
Credit points: 6
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Architecture: First cycle, has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Umeå School of Architecture
Established by: Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 2015-06-22
Literature
Valid from:
2020 week 30
Alvar Aalto in his own words Aalto Alvar, Schildt Göran, Binham Timothy New York : Rizzoli : 1998 : 287 s. : ISBN: 0847820807 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
Benevolo Leonardo History of modern architecture : Vol. 1 The tradition of modern architecture Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. press : 1977 : xxxiv, 374 s. : ISBN: 0262020815 Search the University Library catalogue
Benevolo Leonardo History of modern architecture : Vol. 2 The modern movement Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. press : 1977 : S. 375-868 : ISBN: 0262020807 Search the University Library catalogue
Curtis William J.R. Modern architecture since 1900 3. ed. : London : Phaidon : 1996 : 736 s. : ISBN: 0-7148-3524-2 (inb.) Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Chapters:
Hermann Muthesius: "Aims of the Werkbund 1911".
Muthesius / Van de Ve!de: "Werkbund theses and antitheses 1914".
Antonio Sant' Elia / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: "Futurist architecture
1914".
Walter Gropius: "Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar
1919".
Walter Gropius: "Principles of Bauhaus production [Dessau] 1926".
Le Corbusier: "Towards a new architecture: guiding principles 1920".
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "Industrialized building 1924".
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "On form in architecture 1927".
Frampton Kenneth Modern architecture : a critical history 4. ed., rev., expanded and updated : London : Thames & Hudson : 2007 : 424 s. : ISBN: 0-500-20395-4 Search the University Library catalogue
Frampton Kenneth The evolution of 20th century architecture : a synoptic account Wien : Springer : cop. 2007 : 159 s. : ISBN: 9783211311950 Search the University Library catalogue
Modern Swedish design : three founding texts / by Uno Åhrén, Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Ellen Key, Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson and Eskil Sundahl ; edited and with introductions by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, and Barbara Miller Lane ; essays by Kenneth Frampton Asplund Gunnar, Key Ellen, Paulsson Gregor, Åhrén Uno, Creagh Lucy, Kåberg Helena, Lane Barabara Miller New York : Museum of Modern Art : 2008 : 351 s. : ISBN: 9780870707223 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Reading instructions:
Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson, Eskil
Sundahl, and Uno Åhrén: "Acceptera".
Pevsner Nikolaus Pioneers of modern design : from William Morris to Walter Gropius Rev. and exp. ed. : Bath : Palazzo : 2011 : 192 s. : ISBN: 9780956494269 Search the University Library catalogue
Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture Bullock Michael, Conrads Ulrich Cambridge : MIT Press : 1971 : 192 s. : ISBN: 9780262530309 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Chapters:
Hermann Muthesius: "Aims of the Werkbund 1911".
Muthesius / Van de Ve!de: "Werkbund theses and antitheses 1914".
Antonio Sant' Elia / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: "Futurist architecture
1914".
Walter Gropius: "Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar
1919".
Walter Gropius: "Principles of Bauhaus production [Dessau] 1926".
Le Corbusier: "Towards a new architecture: guiding principles 1920".
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "Industrialized building 1924".
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "On form in architecture 1927".
Remaining chapters are recommended but not mandatory.
Smith George Everard Kidder Sweden builds 2nd revised ed : London : Architectural P : 1957 : 270 s. :
The essential Frank Lloyd Wright : critical writings on architecture Wright Frank Lloyd, Pfeiffer Bruce Brooks Princeton : Princeton University Press : 2010 : vi, 453 p. : ISBN: 0-691-14632-2 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue Reading instructions: Chapter: "The Art and Craft of the Machine", pp. 23-33.
