051-0363-00L History of Urban Design I
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2016 |
| Lecturers | V. Magnago Lampugnani |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Abstract | The lecture covers the time from the beginning of urban culture until the mid 19th century. With selected examples it emphasizes on the historical plannings and methods of European cities. Each specific urban development will be presented within a broader context. |
| Objective | This course analyzes the history of urban architecture primarily in its existing three dimensional form as a complex human artefact. It also explores the inspirations that prompted the creation of this artefact: philosophical and religious concepts, social conditions, property relationships and the mechanisms that exploit the economics of real estate and the influence of building technology. Intellectual, literary or artistic modes of thought will also be assessed with regard to their impact on urban development. Urbanism has its own distinctive approach as a discipline, but it is also clearly responsive to the influence of related disciplines. Study is made of actual cities and urban expansion plans which are in the process of implementation, as well as unrealized projects and visions of the future. These projects sometimes illustrate ways of thinking that are equal to, or clearer than, actual urban situations. |
| Content | In the first semester an introduction to the discipline and the methods are given along the thematic issues from the beginning of urban culture until the mid-19th century. 01. Introduction to the discipline and method: The history of urban design as a historical project 02. Athens and Rome in the ancient world: Myth, selfportrayal and speculation 03. From the spirit of equality to the colonial module: Greek and Roman City foundings 04. From the urban ideal to new cities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 05. Baroque strategies: The new organisation of Rome under Sixtus V, the production of Versailles under Louis XIV and the invention of St. Petersburg 06. The city between Absolutism and Enlightment: baroque defence-designs, the European colonization of the American continent and the reconstruction of Lisbon 07. Ideology and speculation after the Glorious Revolution: landscapegardens and urban figurations in England from 1650-1850 08. Between modernization, Grandeur and repression: Embellishment in Paris from 1750-1830 09. The construction of the bourgeois city: Georges-Eugène Haussmann transforms Paris into the capital of the 19th century 10. Architectural insertion and plan for the expansion of the city: From the Berlin of Karl Friedrich Schinkel to James Hobrecht 11. Neoabsolute power, bourgeois self-confidence and Marxian Idealism: The Viennese Ringstrasse and Ildefonso Cerdas Ensanche for Barcelona |
| Lecture notes | The lectures are accompagnied by a script (two semesters of the bachelor studies), that can be purchased at the chair for the history of urban design (HIL D 75.2) at the price of CHF 30,-. The script serves as an auxiliary means to the attended lecture compiling the most important illustrations showed and the names and dates of the buildings and its builders along with a short introductory note. |
| Literature | Further recommended literature to consult is listet within the script. |
| Prerequisites / Notice | History of Urban Design from antiquity to the 19th century |