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课程详述
COURSE SPECIFICATION
以下课程信息可能根据实际授课需要或在课程检讨之后产生变动。如对课程有任何疑问,请联
系授课教师。
The course information as follows may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen
circumstances, or following review of the course at the end of the session. Queries about the course should be
directed to the course instructor.
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课程名称 Course Title
世界建筑:史前到巴洛克 World Architecture: Prehistory to the Baroque
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授课院系
Originating Department
社会科学中心 Center for Social Sciences
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课程编号
Course Code
SS042
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课程学分 Credit Value
2
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课程类别
Course Type
通识选修课程 General Education (GE) Elective Courses
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授课学期
Semester
春季 Spring
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授课语言
Teaching Language
中英双语 English and Chinese
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他授课教师)
Instructor(s), Affiliation&
Contact
For team teaching, please list
all instructors
熊庠楠 Xiangnan XIONG,
人文社科荣誉学会 Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Emailxiongxn@mail.sustech.edu.cn
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/
方式
Tutor/TA(s), Contact
NA
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选课人数限额(不填)
Maximum Enrolment
Optional
授课方式
Delivery Method
习题/辅导/讨论
Tutorials
实验/实习
Lab/Practical
其它(请具体注明)
OtherPlease specify
总学时
Total
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学时数
Credit Hours
32
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先修课程、其它学习要求
Pre-requisites or Other
Academic Requirements
NA
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后续课程、其它学习规划
Courses for which this course
is a pre-requisite
NA
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其它要求修读本课程的学系
Cross-listing Dept.
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教学大纲及教学日历 SYLLABUS
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教学目标 Course Objectives
这门课程将学习世界建筑历史,探讨不同地区、时代、风格的建筑代表作品。其讨论的时间范围始于最早的人居遗址,终
于十八世纪中叶,其空间范围将涵盖古西亚、古希腊、北非、中南美洲和欧洲。建筑学科的基本观念(比例、尺度、空间
序列等)将渗透在历史建筑实例的讲述中。学生们将从本门课程中学习到各个建筑风格的主要特色。本门课程的知识训练
和考核方式亦将培养他们的视觉记忆能力和对形式的联想能力。
This course studies the history of architecture around the world and looks closely at key sites from various areas, periods
and of diverse styles. Our discussion begins with the earliest evidence of human habitation and extends to the middle of
the eighteenth century and ranges from the ancient Near East and Classical Greece, to Africa, Central and South
America, and Europe. The essential concepts of architecture (proportion, scale, spatial sequence, etc.) inform our
investigation of building sites. Students will learn the major features of various architectural styles. This course will foster
students’ visual memory and their ability of formal association.
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预达学习成果 Learning Outcomes
通过本门课程的学习,学生将获得以下知识修养:
从全球视野全面地来理解建筑的发展
了解多种建筑风格的主要特色
多角度地理解建筑(从形式、结构、用途和文化等方面)
熟悉并能够正确使用基础的建筑术语
In taking this course, students will obtain the following skills and knowledge
Develop a global perspective of architectural history
Grasp major features of various architectural styles
Understand architecture from various aspects (form, structure, purpose, culture, etc.)
Become familiar with basic architectural vocabulary and are able to use them correctly
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课程内容及教学日历 (如授课语言以英文为主,则课程内容介绍可以用英文;如团队教学或模块教学,教学日历须注明
主讲人)
Course Contents (in Parts/Chapters/Sections/Weeks. Please notify name of instructor for course section(s), if
this is a team teaching or module course.)
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1.The Origins of Architecture: Stone Age Europe / 建筑的起源:石器时期的欧洲 (2-credit hours)
Introduce classic readings of Marc-Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture (1753) and Gottfried Semper,
The Four Elements of Architecture (1851)
Examine archaeological sites of Lascaux cave (France c. 10,000 B.C.E.), Carnac (France, c. 2000 B.C.E.), New
Grange (Ireland, 2500 B.C.E.), Stonehenge (England, 2750-1500 B.C.E.), etc.
Understand “postal and lintel”, “corbelled vault”, and “wattle and daub” as constructional method.
2. Ancient Egypt: City of the Dead / 古埃及:逝者之城 (2-credit hours)
Introduce the mortuary culture of the ancient Egypt.
Examine Mortuary complex of Zoser (Saqqara, c. 2680 B.C.E.), Stepped Pyramid of Sneferu, (2680-2570
B.C.E.), Pyramids of Giza (2570-2500 B.C.E. ), etc.
Comprehend the architectural idea of “Mass and Volume”.
Understand architectural terms of “mastaba”, “clerestory”, and “colonnade”.
3. Ancient Egypt: the New Kingdom / 古埃及:新王国时 (2-credit hours)
Examine Mortuary Temple of Metuhotep (Deir el-Bahri, 2050 B.C.E.), Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir el-
Bahri, 1500 B.C.E.), Temple of Amon (Karnak, 1525-1350 B.C.E.), and Temple of Ramses II (Abu Simbel, 1250
B.C.E.)
Comprehend the architectural idea of “Processing and Symmetry”
Understand the prototype of “hypostyle hall”, “peristyle court”, and “obelisk”.
Quiz 1
4. The Aegean: Bronze Age Cities and the Rise of Orders / 爱琴海:青铜时代的城市和柱式的崛起 (2-credit hours)
Introduce the ancient Aegean culture and their lifestyles.
Examine Palace of Minos, Knossos (Crete, 1600 B.C.E.), Mycenae (Greece, 1,600-1,100 B.C.E.), Temple of
Hera, Olympia (Greece, 500 B.C.E.), Temple of Athena (Paestum, Italy, 510 B.C.E.), etc.
Understand the vocabulary associated with classical orders, such as capital, entablature, pediment, stylobate.
5. Ancient Greece: Polis and Acropolis / 古希腊:城邦和卫 (2-credit hours)
Examine Theater (Epidaurus, 300 B.C.E.) and Propylaia, Temple of Athena Nike, Parthenon, and Erechteion of
Acropolis (Athens, 420s).
Comprehend the architectural concept of “Proportion and Scale”
Understand building types of agora, stoa and auditorium.
Understand the ancient Greek visual adjustment of “entasis”
Quiz 2
6. Caput mundi: Roman Architecture I / 世界之都:罗马建 I (2-credit hours)
Introduce Roman culture and its influence on western civilization
Examine Aqueduct, Pont-du-Gard, (Nîmes [France], late 1st century B.C.E. ), Maison Carrée, (Nîmes [France],
19 B.C.E.), Pantheon (Rome 118-128 C.E.), and Colosseum (Rome, 72-80 C.E.).
Understand “vault”, “barrel vault”, “groin vault”, and “dome”.
7. Caput mundi: Roman Architecture II / 世界之都:罗马建 II (2-credit hours)
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Introduce diverse Roman building types.
Examine Baths of Caracalla (Rome, 210s), Arch of Constantine (Rome, 315 C.E.), Trajan's Forum (Rome, 98-
112 C.E.), House of Menander (Pompeii [Italy], after 62 C.E.), and Petra (Jordan, 1st-2nd centuries C.E.)
Understand prototype of forum, atrium, basilica.
Discuss the earliest architectural treatise―Vitruvius’s De Architectura.
Quiz 3
8. Late Roman Buildings and Early Christian Europe / 晚期罗马建筑 和基督教崛起的欧洲 (2-credit hours)
Examine Catacombs (Rome, 1
st
-2
nd
centuries C.E.), St. Peter's (Rome, 319-c. 330), Santa Constanza (Rome,
350 C.E.), etc.
Understand the building prototype of Basilica and its role in early Christian worship
Learn the vocabulary associated with Basilica type: colonnade, clerestory, apse, etc.
9. The Christian East: Constantinople and Byzantine Architecture / 东罗马帝国:君士坦丁堡和拜占庭建筑 (2-credit
hours)
Explain the historic background of Christian East.
Examine Hagia Sophia (Constantinople [Turkey], 532-537), San Vitale ( Ravenna, 526-548), San Marco
(Venice, 1063-94), etc.
Understand Greek cross plan, pendentive, drum, and so forth as structure components and as the main
features of Byzantine Architecture.
10. Islamic Architecture / 伊斯兰建筑 (2-credit hours)
Explain Islamic worship culture
Examine Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem, 691-92), Great Mosque at Samarra (Iraq, 850s), Great Mosque at
Cordoba (Spain, 785-987), Alhambra (Granada, 13th and 14th centuries), and Taj Mahal, (Agra, 1631-47).
Comprehend architectural idea of Ornament.
Understand minaret, qibla, mihrab.
11. Pyramids & Rituals: Pre-Columbian Meso-American and Inca Buildings / 金字塔和仪式:哥伦布之前的中美洲和
印加建筑 (2-credit hours)
Introduce Pre-Columbian American world: Nazca culture, Incan culture, Toltec culture, etc.
Examine Machu Picchu (Peru, 1438-71), Pyramid of the Moon (Teotihuacán [Mexico], 200 C.E.), Pyramid of
the Sun(Teotihuacán [Mexico], 150 C.E.), Uxmal (Mexico, 800-1000), etc.
Comprehend architectural idea of tectonics.
Quiz 4
12. Medieval Europe: the Carolingian Renaissance and Romanesque / 中世纪欧洲:卡洛林文艺复兴和罗曼式建筑
(2-credit hours)
Introduce Medieval European world
Examine Monastery of Lorsch (Germany, 770C.E.), St. Michael (Hildesheim [Germany], 1000-1186), Cathedral,
tower, and baptistery at Pisa (Italy, 10th-11th century)
Comprehend the architectural idea of iconography
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13. Medieval Europe: the Gothic Experiment / 中世纪欧洲:哥特建筑的试验 (2-credit hours)
Examine Cathedral of Chartres (France, 13th century), Cathedral of Notre-Dame (Amiens [France], 1200s),
Salisbury Cathedral (England, 1250s), King’s College Chapel (Cambridge, 1450s-1500s), etc.
Comprehend the idea of Structure rationalism.
Understand major features of Gothic style and its structural features: flying buttress, pinnacle, ribbed vault, etc.
Quiz 5
14. Quattrocento Italy: The Early Renaissance / 十五世纪意大利:早期文艺复兴 (2-credit hours)
Introduce the humanist culture of Italian Renaissance.
Examine dome of the Duomo (Florence, 1250s), Foundling Hospital (Florence, 1420s), Pazzi Chapel (Florence,
1430s), Medici Palace (Florence, 1450s), S. Maria Novella (Florence, 1450s), S. Andrea (Mantua, 1470-90s).
Discuss architect masters Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti.
Discuss the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance: De re aedificatoria (1452, Ten Books on Architecture)
by Alberti.
15. The Cinquecento in Italy and Beyond / 十六世纪意大利及其影响 (2-credit hours)
Introduce the building types of palace and villa.
Examine Tempietto (Rome, 1502), Laurentian Library (Florence, 1520s), Porta Pia (Rome, 1560s), Palazzo del
Té (Mantua[Italy], 1530s), La Rotonda (Vicenza, 1556-57).
Discuss architect masters Bramante, Palladio, and Michelangelo.
Investigate the idea of beauty in the Renaissance time and the approach of mannerism.
16. The Baroque Architecture / 巴洛克建筑 (2-credit hours)
Discuss the transition from Renaissance to mannerism to Baroque.
Examine the completion of St.Peter’s (Rome, 1610s), S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, (Rome, 1640s), S. Ivo
della Sapienza (Rome, 1660s), Karlskirche (Vienna, 1720s), Vierzehnheiligen, (Germany, 1740s).
Discuss Baroque masters and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini vs Francesco Borromini
Review the course.
Quiz 6
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教材及其它参考资料 Textbook and Supplementary Readings
本课程无固定教材,将根据以下参考资料自编教材:
Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. 2nd. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Vitruvius. The Ten Books of Architecture (30-15 B.C.E.), trans. Morris Hicky Morgan. New York: Dover, 1960. (中译本:
维特鲁威, 《建筑十书》, 陈平译。北京大学出版社, 2012)
Christian Norberg-Schulz. Meaning in Western Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
Robert Mark, ed., Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution: The Art and Structure of Large-Scale
Buildings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.