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WN 2013
Architecture
ARCH 528 - Baroque Arch
Section 001

Credits: 3 (Non-LSA credit).
Advisory Prerequisites: ARCH 323/permission of instructor.
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Meet Together Classes:
HISTART 465 - Baroque Arch, Section 001
Primary Instructor: Soo,Lydia M

 

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The course examines the architecture of the Baroque period, the buildings and cities of the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Italy, France, England, and Central Europe. They will be discussed in relationship to contemporary theoretical writings, addressing issues of function, structure, and beauty, as well as in relationship to the cultural context of the Baroque period, including philosophical, religious, political, economic, and environmental factors. D. 3


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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)

ISBN: 9780300078893 Art and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, Author: revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu., Publisher: Yale University Press 6th ed. 1999
Required

ISBN: 9780300077483 Art and architecture in France 1500-1700, Author: editor Richard Beresford., Publisher: Yale University Press 5. ed. 1999
Required

ISBN: 9780300058864 Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830, Author: John Summerson ; with colour photography by A.F. Kersting., Publisher: Yale University Press 9th ed. 1993
Optional

ISBN: 9780300060133 Architecture in France in the eighteenth century, Author: Kalnein, Wend von, 1914-, Publisher: Yale University Press 1995
Optional

ISBN: 0312542542 A pocket style manual., Author: Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers ; contributing ESL specialist, Marcy Carbajal Van Horn., Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 6th ed.
Required

ISBN: 9780262690126 The classical language of architecture, Author: John Summerson., Publisher: M.I.T. Press 16. print. 1963
Optional

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