Establishment of Principles
The Project of Napoléon III
The Break-through Operation and the reasons
The Appearance of Haussmann and the Evolution of the Project
The Haussmann System
Administrative Reforms
Men and Their Missions
Lesson 6: The « Grands Travaux » : The Visible and The Invisible (2 credit hours)
Architectural and Urban Regulations
The Breakthrough as Subdivision
The Architectural Prescriptions
The Breakthrough Procedures
Expropriations and Demolition
« Depopulation » of the Center
Water Supply and Drainage Systems
Aqueducts and Reservoirs
Sewerage System
Lesson 7: The New Haussmannian Urban Landscape (2 credit hours)
Urban Open Space
The Typology of Breakthroughs and Exemples
The Haussmann Places
Buildings and Monuments
The Haussmann Building, as a Backdrop
Public Architecture : Monuments in the Urban Landscape
Green City
Urban Vegetation Selection
The Public Parks
The Woodlands : The Bois de Vincennes and The Bois de Boulogne
Lesson 8: Urban Space Research Report Initial Stage Class Sharing and Review (2 credit hours)
Students are Grouped to Conduct an Urban Space Research Report
Choose one Side of the City of Shenzhen (Building, Street, Landscape, Campus, or the Living Environment of
Your Homme and Surrounding Areas) to Examine its Changes Over Time and Present with Images.
PART THREE:Architecture Between Technique Advancement and Cultural Aspirations
Lesson 9: Architecture as Monument I: Opera, Temple of Spectacle (2 credit hours)
Architect : Charles Garnier
Architect’s Observation, Understanding, Organization and Presentation of Human Behaviour
Space Organization as Stage Setting
Birth of A New Style : When Decoration Becomes Ornament
Lesson 10: Architecture as Monument II: Library, Palace of Books II (2 credit hours)
Architect : Henri Labrouste
Henri Labrouste, Bibliothèque Saint-Geneviève, 1838-1851
Henri Labrouste, Salle de lecture, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1854-1875
Architectural Représentation and Technical Reality
Lesson 11: Architecture as Monument III : New Typologies (2 credit hours)
Les Halles : The Central Wholesale Market
Architect: Victor Baltard
Les Central Wholesale Market, unprecedented construction
Émile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris
The Railway Stations
Architect’s Railway Stations : Structure and Ornament
Impressionists’ Railway Stations : Imobilize the mobility and the atmosphere
Lesson 12: Architecture as Monument IV: Grands magasins : « Cathédrales du commerce » (2 credit hours)
Le Bon Marché, 1852
Gustave Eiffel, technical designer of the building
Émile Zola, Bonheur des dames : « cathédrales du commerce »