课程详述

COURSE SPECIFICATION

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课程名称 Course Title

城市，住宅和生活方式 Cities, Dwellings, and Ways of Living

授课院系

Originating Department

社会科学中心 Center for Social Sciences

课程编号

Course Code

SS073

课程学分 Credit Value

课程类别

Course Type

通识选修课程 General Education (GE) Elective Courses

授课学期

Semester

春季 Spring

授课语言

Teaching Language

英文 English

授课教师、所属学系、联系方

式（如属团队授课，请列明其

他授课教师）

Instructor(s), Affiliation&

Contact

（For team teaching, please list

all instructors）

熊庠楠 XIONG Xiangnan

南方科技大学人文社科荣誉学会 Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, SUSTech

xiongxn@mail.sustech.edu.cn

实验员/助教、所属学系、联系

方式

Tutor/TA(s), Contact

无 NA

10.

选课人数限额(可不填)

Maximum Enrolment

（Optional）

授课方式

Delivery Method

讲授

Lectures

习题/辅导/讨论

Tutorials

实验/实习

Lab/Practical

其它(请具体注明)

Other（Please specify）

总学时

Total

11.

学时数

Credit Hours

12.

先修课程、其它学习要求

Pre-requisites or Other

Academic Requirements

无 NA

13.

后续课程、其它学习规划

Courses for which this

course is a pre-requisite

无 NA

14.

其它要求修读本课程的学系

Cross-listing Dept.

无 NA

教学大纲及教学日历 SYLLABUS

15.

教学目标 Course Objectives

This seminar course explores the interrelationships between the development of cities and dwellings, living customs, and

architects’ visions of new ways of living. It is framed roughly chronologically by themes. The course presents a cultural

perspective to study architecture and cities. On the one hand, it analyzes a dwelling or city form in a way to understand

the contemporary living and social customs; on the other it examines how architects’ or clients’ vision of a new society

and an alternative lifestyle gave shape to new forms of dwellings and cities. Course meetings will focus on themes

investigated in assigned readings, which will also serve as a springboard for discussing broader issues. The last three

class meetings will be devoted to students’ research projects and students will share their findings with the class and

prepare a final, written research paper.

16.

预达学习成果 Learning Outcomes

This course will train students in the following aspects：

 Understand how lifestyles conditions the development of domestic architecture

 Understand how the organization of a dwelling may have an impact on its residents

 Understand architecture from various dimensions, including materials, culture, purposes, technology, formal

pursuit, etc.

 Foster visual memory and cultivate the ability of formal analysis.

 Grasp the cultural implications of the dwellings of various regions and periods.

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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.)

1. Introduction (2-credit hours)

 Film, The New Dwelling [Die Neue Wohnung], directed by Hans Richter, 1930 (28 minute) It was commissioned

by the Schweizer Werkbund for screening at the first Schweizerischen Wohnungsausstellung (WOBA) in Basel)

 Offer an overview of the relationships among cities, housing, and lifestyles.

2. Prior the Modern Age (2-credit hours)

 Introduce ways of living in the big houses in the Medieval England, and analyse how they were related to the

spatial and functional arrangement in castles.

 Recommended Readings: Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)

1-81. (Ch. 1 The Power House 1-12; Ch. 2 The Mediaeval Household 13-29; Ch. 3 Medieval House 29-81)

 Discuss readings: Mark Girouard, “The Texture of Life,” in City and People (New Haven: Yale University Press,

1985) 67-84.

3. Renaissance Villas and Palaces I: Learning from the Romans (2-credit hours)

 Discuss the ideal living modes in the Renaissance time and how it was greatly inspired by rustic lifestyle

presented in the ancient poetry.

 Recommended Reading: James Ackman, “Ch. 3: The Early Villas of the Medici,” The Villa: Form and Ideology

of Country Houses (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), 63-87.

 Discuss readings: Pliny the Younger, “Letter to Gallus,” in The Letters of Pliny the Younger, Vol. 1 (London,

1972)75-79.

4. Renaissance Villas and Palaces II: A Combination of Bucolic and Urban Life (2-credit hours)

 Discuss how powerful family of the Renaissance Italy blended the ideal of bucolic lifestyle and business life in

the city through architecture.

 Discuss readings: Patricia Waddy, “The Roman Apartment from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century,” in

Architecture et vie sociale, edited by Jean Guillaume, (Paris: Picard, 1994) 155-166.

 Recommended Reading: Diane Yvonne Ghirardo, “The Topography of Prostitution in Renaissance Ferrara,”

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60, No. 4 (Dec, 2001) 402-431.

5. A Curious World: Home as a Museum (2-credit hours)

 Discuss the trend of interest to explore the exotic natural world extending from the court to the upper middle-

class in the 17

century.

 Mark Girouard, “First Interlude: Virtuosos and Dilettanti,” Life in the English Country House (New York: Penguin

Books, 1980), 163-180.

 Discuss readings: Joseph Connors, “Virtuoso Architecture in Cassiano’s Rome” in Cassiano Dal Pozzo’s Paper

Museum vol. 2, edited by Ian Jenkins (London: Olivetti, 1992) 23-40.

 Discuss readings: Helene Furjan, “Exhibitionism: John Soane’s ‘Model House’,” in Intimate Metropolis: Urban

Subjects in the Modern City, ed. Vittoria Di Palma et al (London and New York: Routledge, 2009) 90-110.

6. Urban Transformation and Its Impact on Living Culture I (2-credit hours)

 Explain the tumultuous urban transformation and its impact on everyday life.

 Discuss readings: Mark Girouard, “Ch. 9: the uses of Leisure,” City and People (New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1985), 181-210

 Discuss readings: Harold Nicolson, “the Charm of Berlin (1932)” in the Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by

Anton Kaes et al. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 425-426.

 Recommended readings: Walter Benjamin, “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (1939),” The Arcades

Project [Passagen-Werk], trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin Mclaughlin (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of

Harvard University Press, 1999), 14-26.

 Recommended readings: Marshall Berman, “Ch. 3: Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets,” in All That Is Solid

Melts into Air (New York: Penguin, 1988)131-172

7. The Arrival of Informality（2-credit hour）

 Explain the idea of “leisure” and its implication to ways of living and dwellings.

 Discuss readings: Mark Girouard, “Ch. 8 The Arrival of Informality 1770-1830” Life in the English Country House

(New York: Penguin Books, 1980), 213-244

 Recommended readings: Hermann Muthesius, The English House (1904/1905) (London: Granada, 1979) xiii-

xxi, 7-12.79-102, 135-150. (introduction by Dennis Sharp and Muthesius, xiii-xxi, 7-12; Part Two: The Layout of

the English House, 79-102, 135-150)

 Recommended readings: (skim over) M. H. Baillie Scott, Houses and Gardens: Arts and Crafts Interiors (1906)

(Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1995), 9-75. (introduction to chapter 17)

8. Urban Transformation and Its Impact on Living Culture II（2-credit hour）

 Introduce the ideas of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Ferdinand Tönnies), and their corresponding living

modes.

 Recommended Readings: Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life (1909)” in Simmel on Culture

(London: Sage, 1997) 174-186.

 Discuss Readings: Eric Weitz, “Ch. 2 Walking the City,” Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 2007), 41-80.

 Recommended Readings: Renee Y. Chow, “In a Field of Party Walls: Drawing Shanghai’s Lilong,” Journal of

the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 1 (March, 2014): 16-27.

9. New Visions of Domesticity and Dwelling Forms I（2-credit hour）

 Discuss case studies of how architects or clients’ outlook of an alternative living drove the creation of new

dwellings. (The Schröder House, double house for the Weissenhofseidlung by Le Corbusier and pierre

jeanneret, and the Tugendhat House)

 Discuss Readings: Alice Friedman, “Family Matters: The Schröder House,” in Woman and the Making of the

Modern House: A Social and Architectural History (New York: Abrams, 1998), 64-91.

 Recommended Readings: Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Device,” in Theory of Prose, trans. Benjamin Sher

(Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1990), 1-14.

10. New Visions of Domesticity and Dwelling Forms II (2-credit hour)

 Discuss case studies of how architecture played an instrumental role in promoting a more radical vision of life

framed by contemporary social and cultural hypotheses. (Schindler House, high-rise tenement project by

Gropius, Unité d’habitation)

 Recommended Readings: Tanja Poppelreuter, “Social Individualism: Walter Gropius and his Appropriation of

Franz Müller-Lyer’s Idea of a New Man.” Journal of Design History 24, No. 1 (2011): 37-58.

 Recommended Readings: Mark Peach, “‘Der Architekt Denkt, Die Hausfrau Lenkt’: German Modern

Architecture and the Modern Woman.” German Studies Review 18, no. 3 (Oct. 1995): 441-463

 Discuss Readings: R. M. Schindler, “Shelter and Playground,” in Philip M. Lovell, “Care of the Body,” Los

Angeles Times (2 May 1926): K24.

 Discuss Readings: Robert Sweeney, “Life at Kings Road: As it was, 1920-1940,” in The Architecture of R. M.

Schindler, ed. by Elizabeth A. Smith et al. (Los Angeles, Calif.: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001) 86-115.

11. All Living Together: Communal Housing in Europe (2-credit hour)

 Explain the severe and urgent housing problem in after-war Europe.

 Examine key sites of the Weissenhofsiedlung, Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Siemensstadt Housing Estate, New Frankfurt

Project, etc.

 Recommended reading: Hilde Heynen, “Constructing the Modern Movement,” in Architecture and Modernity: A

Critique (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), 43-70.

12. Modern Dwellings in the Far East (2-credit hour)

 Introduce post-war Japanese architectural Movement of Metabolism(新陈代谢派).

 Examine key urban projects of ocean city and space city (megastructure urban project) and its vision of future

housing.

 Examine key building projects of Nakagin Capsule Tower and Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Tower.

13. Whose Vision of Life (2-credit hour)

 Re-examine mutually constitutive interaction between living modes and dwelling developments.

 Recommended Readings: Douglas Mark Klahr, “Luxury Apartment with a Tenement Heart,” Journal of the

Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 3 (September, 2011): 290-307.

 Discuss Readings: Clifford Edward Clark, “Ch. 7 Ranch House Modern,” The American Family Home, 1800-

1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 193-216.

 Discuss Readings: Rachel Stevenson, “Living Images: Charles and Ray Eames ‘At Home’,” Perspecta 37

(2005) 32-41.

14. Research Project Presentation

 Each student has to offer a presentation on his/her research on a dwelling and its residents’ living mode for 15

minutes.

 I will comment on each’s work and summarize in the end.

15. Research Project Presentation

 Each student has to offer a presentation on his/her research on a dwelling and its residents’ living mode for 15

minutes.

 I will comment on each’s work and summarize in the end.

16. Research Project Presentation

 Each student has to offer a presentation on his/her research on a dwelling and its residents’ living mode for 15

minutes.

 I will comment on each’s work and summarize in the end.

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教材及其它参考资料 Textbook and Supplementary Readings

References：

Ackman, James. The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air New York: Penguin, 1988.

Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.

Girouard, Mark. City and People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

课程评估 ASSESSMENT

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评估形式

Type of

Assessment

评估时间

Time

占考试总成绩百分比

% of final

score

违纪处罚

Penalty

备注

Notes

出勤 Attendance

More than 3 absences will affect

grade

课堂表现

Class

Performance

20%

Students will be able to enhance their

critical thinking through discussions

and debates.

小测验

Quiz

课程项目 Projects

平时作业

Assignments

40%

Two 1000 words reader responses

(each 20%)

期中考试

Mid-Term Test

期末考试

Final Exam

期末报告

Final

Presentation

40%

Students are encouraged to start

early considering the topic for their

final research project and need to talk

with me about their focus of interest

and how they are going to develop

their research. Each student will

present his/her work to the whole

class and the audience are

responsible to offer comments and

suggestions.

其它（可根据需要

改写以上评估方

式）

Others (The

above may be

modified as

necessary)

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记分方式 GRADING SYSTEM

 A. 十三级等级制 Letter Grading

 B. 二级记分制（通过/不通过） Pass/Fail Grading

课程审批 REVIEW AND APPROVAL

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本课程设置已经过以下责任人/委员会审议通过

This Course has been approved by the following person or committee of authority