2. 1. Your (almost) handbook

Basic Outline : ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: quizs / Partial Exams 1 and 2

El alumno aprende por su cuenta el esquema más básico en la Encyclopaedia Britannica, en las voces que corresponden a Western Architecture.

Western Architecture es un ciudadoso y conciso resumen y debe aprenderse casi de memoria. Es examinable con dos exámenes parciales (modular exams 1 y 2).

Al estar incorporado a una enciclopedia, es fácil ampliar conocimientos: la versión digital es a la vez un diccionario; la significación de cada palabra aparece al clicar sobre ella.

El autor principal y coordinador de la revisión más reciente fue David Watkin. La Encyclopaedia Britannica radica en UK (tradicional) y USA (preferente). La Encyclopaedia comenzada en 1768 es una de las más obras de referencia más seguras del mundo occidental.

La actual, continuamente renovada se ofrece:

• Versión libro: 32 volúmenes. Un buen regalo de boda.
• Versión digital. Recomendable. Conviene comprar directamente en la editorial UK (más cara) o USA. La editorial ofrece versiones de años anteriores a un cuarto de su precio.
• Versión online. Existe una versión free con contenidos muy breves; se amplia por subscripción: nuestra Universidad esta suscrita a esa versión completa. Se entra de dos maneras (desde ordenadores de la Universidad).
  -Academic Edition
  -Biblioteca de la Universidad de Navarra (Sabio: hacer clic en bases de datos).

More: the Handbook: quiz / Partial exam 3.

El esquema de la Encyclopaedia Britannica fue ampliado por el mismo Watkin y dio lugar al handbook A History of Western Architecture, que sirve de referencia para conocer más sobre el contexto, obtener bibliografía y un breve glosario.

David Watkin es un historiador con un planteamiento muy cercano a Gombrich, capaz de valorar los logros de tradiciones distintas de las italianas o francesas. Su handbook es el más adecuado para alumnos de arquitectura, pues equilibra una suficiente profundidad con una extensión asequible. La versión española no está actualizada; y aunque se tradujera, la edición inglesa siempre será preferible.

El alumno profundiza sobre una de las épocas de la historia de la arquitectura occidental con la ayuda del handbook:

• Watkin, David, A History of Western Architecture, 4ª edición, 2005. London: Lawrence King Publishing / New York: Wapson-Guptill Publications.

Assessment, exams. Calendar

1st QUiz / partial Exam 1 (ENcyclopaedia Britannica)
List of Topics

European Metal Age cultures

Aegean and eastern Mediterranean

Minoan Crete, Mycenaean Greece, Fortification, Palaces, Tombs

[NOT INCLUDED) Western Mediterranean: Bronze Age cultures, Iberia, Balearic Isles, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica, Italy. Iron Age cultures, Iberia, Italy]

Ancient Greek

The early periods, The “Orientalizing” period, The Archaic period ( 750–500 )

The Classical period, Early Classical ( 500–450 ), High Classical ( 450–400 ), Late Classical ( 400–323 ), Hellenistic period

Roman and early Christian

Republic and empire, Building materials, Construction, Design, Types of public buildings, Residential architecture, Town planning, Stylistic development

Early Christian, First period, to 313, Second period, after 313

The Christian East

The early Byzantine period (330–726), The Iconoclastic Age (726–843), The middle Byzantine period (843–1204), The late Byzantine period (1204–1453), Kievan Rus and Russia.

The Christian West

The early Middle Ages, Migratory period, Merovingian period, France, Ireland, England, Spain, Carolingian period, Ottonian period, Prelude to Romanesque in the north

Romanesque

Burgundy, Normandy, Aquitaine, Languedoc, and Auvergne, Provence, Germany and the Low Countries, Iberia, Italy, Norman Italy and Sicily, Palestine

Gothic

Early Gothic, High Gothic, Italian Gothic (1200–1400), Late Gothic, The end of Gothic

2nd Quiz / Partial Exam 2 (ENcyclopaedia Britannica)
List of Topics

The Renaissance

Early Renaissance in Italy (1401–95), High Renaissance in Italy (1495–1520), Italian Mannerism or Late Renaissance (1520–1600)

The Renaissance outside Italy

France, Early Renaissance, Mannerism, Spain and Spanish America, Plateresque, Classical, Herreran, Spanish America, Portugal, Germany, Flanders and Holland, England, Eastern Europe.

Baroque and Rococo

National and regional variations, Italy, Flanders, Holland, Central Europe, North America, Spanish South America, Brazil. Urban design 17th century, 18th century.

Classicism, 1750–1830

Origins and development, National and regional variations, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, Germany, Scandinavia and Findland, Poland, Russia, United States, Spanish America and Brasil.

3rd / Partial Exam 3. A History of Western Architecture (handbook)

El alumno puede elegir presentarse a una de estas cuatro etapas.

I. Classical Antiquity
List of Topics

1. Mesopotamia and Egypt

9-13. Mesopotamia,

13-18. Egypt,

2 The Classical Foundation: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman

23-31. Hellenic culture,

31-32. The rise of Ionic,

33-41. The classic phase: 480-400 BC

41-41. The Hellenistic background, 41

41-46. Mainland Greece in the fourth century BC...

46-57. The second century BC: sacred and secular buildings

57-60. The rise of Rome

60-64. Republican architecture

64-70. Fora, basilicas and temples: the Roman synthesis

70-82. Palaces, villas and the new architecture of concrete

82-87. Town Planning

87-88. Constantine and the adoption of Christianity

3 Early Christian and Byzantine

89-92. Rome

92-97. Constantinople, Salonica and Ravenna

98-106. Later Byzantine architecture

II. Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic
List of Topics

4 Carolingian and Romanesque

107-112. The rise of monasticism

112-114. Britain and Spain from the ninth to the early eleventh centuries)

116-122. Ottonian architecture and its influence

122-126. France in the tenth and early eleventh centuries

126-134. Normandy and England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

134-136. The pilgrimage churches of France and Spain

136-141. Cluny III and the provincial schools of French Romanesque

141-144. Spain in the eleventh and twelf centuries

144-148. Italy

5 The Gothic Experiment

149-150. France

150-155. 'The new light': Abbot Suger and the origins of Gothic

156-159. High Gothic: Reims, Amiens, Beauvais and Bourges

160-164. The Court Style and Rayonnant Gothic

164-165. The Flamboyant style

165-168. Secular buildings in medieval France

168-171. England. Canterbury and its impact

171-173. Lincoln and its impact

173-174. Westminster Abbey

174-177. The impact of Westminster and the origins of the Decorated style

177-180. St Stephen's Chapel and the origins of Perpendicular

180-185. Parish churches and secular building

185-185. Germany and Central Europe, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal

185-189. Cologne, Prague and the Parler dynasty

189-192. German late Gothic

193-193. Secular architecture in Germany and Bohemia

193-194. Belgium

194-201. Early Gothic in Italy

201-210. Gothic in Spain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

III. Renaissance and (Italian) Baroque
List of Topics

6 Renaissance Harmony

211-215. The birth of the Renaissance. Florence and Brunelleschi

215-218. Alberti

218-221. Palaces and town planning in Pienza, Urbino and Florence

221-223. Filarete and Leonardo

223-225. High Renaissance. Rome: Bramante

225-227. St Peter's from Bramante to Maderno

227-230. Raphael, Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

230-232. Divergencies in Mantua: Giulio Romano

232-237. Michelangelo

237-239. High Renaissance in Verona and Venice: Sanmicheli and Sansovino

239-243. Vignola and the origins of Baroque

243-251. Palladio and High Renaissance harmony

251-251. The Renaissance outside Italy

251-262. France under François I

266-269. Germany

269-271. Eastern Europe

271-273. Netherlands

273-279. England and the growth of the 'prodigy house'

279-283. Town Planning

7 Baroque Expansion

283-286. Italy. The creation of Baroque: Bernini

286-291. An individual voice: Borromini

291-295. Pietro da Cortona

295-299. Contrasting currents in late-Baroque Rome

299-306. Piedmont: Guarini, Juvarra and Vittone

306-309. Genoa, Milan, Bologna and Venice

309-314. Naples and Sicily

IV. Baroque outside Italy and Eighteenth-century Classicism
List of Topics

314-314. Baroque outside Italy

314-323. France

323-335. Austria and Germany

335-354. England

8 Eighteenth-century Classicism

369-369. The impact of Rome

369-373. Piranesi

373-373. The origins of Picturesque

373-377. Lord Burlington and William Kent

377-382. Robert Adam

382-387. Chambers and Wyatt

387-391. Dance and Soane

391-395. The rise of neo-classicism in France

395-400. Soufflot and Ste-Geneviève

400-406. Peyre and de Wailly

406-410. Ledoux and the Picturesque

410-410. The classical tradition elsewhere in Europe

410-412. Italy

412-417. Germany

417-418. Poland

419-421. Scandinavia

421-424. Russia