Archive of student work: scroll down |
| Robert Mellin's email address: robert.mellin@mcgill.ca |
| Course outlines: |
| Course outline (WORD .doc) |
| Course outline (WORD .docx) |
| Course outline (PDF) |
| End-of-term project precedent: Anne Meredith Barry's Gros Morne Time Lines |
| End-of-term project example: Berson & Fils Monuments by Dorothy Stern |
| Related links (organizations): |
| Vernacular Architecture Forum |
| Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) |
| Center for American Places |
| Center for American Places: University of Virginia Press |
| American Society for Environmental History |
| Association for Preservation Technology International |
| Schedule and weekly assignments: (check here for updates) |
| January 11: Introduction to cultural landscape studies |
| Rural cultural landscape and housing case study: |
| Tilting Part One |
| Assignment #1 (due January 18) |
| Groth: Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Study in Understanding Ordinary Landscapes |
| Mellin: look through my book on Tilting: House Launching... to be placed on reserve for ARCH566 |
| Mellin: Conservation in Tilting in APT Bulletin Vol XXXVI #2-3, 2006 |
| Mellin: The Edible Landscape of a Newfoundland Outport in Open House International |
| Sample project guide (skim contents for possible future reference): Tobias Mapping |
| January 25: Rural cultural landscape and housing case study: |
| Tilting Part Two; Joe Batt's Arm, Little Fogo Islands |
| Assignment #2 (due January 25) |
| M. Creates: Places of Presence |
| Beginning and end of Gordon Cullen's book Townscape |
| Holl: House Types in Pamphlet Architecture #9, Princeton Architectural Press |
| Schoenauer: Cities, Suburbs, Dwellings (read the first two chapters) |
| Glassie: beginning chapters from the book Vernacular Architecture |
| February 1: Recent writing on "place" |
| (Guest: Professor Avi Friedman) |
| Assignment #3 (due February 1) |
| Reading list doc file |
| Reading list docx file |
| Reading list pdf file |
| Reading (book by Prof. Friedman) |
| Reading on Florida |
| February 8: Pattern language, syndesis, and Rogelio Salmona |
| (Guest: Prof. Ricardo Castro) |
| Assignment #4 (due February 8) |
| Alexander: A PatternLanguage |
| Reading on Magritte |
| February 15: An Urban Cultural Landscape: Housing and Urban Form in St. John's, Newfoundland |
| Assignment #5 (due February 15) |
| Reading on Cultural Landscapes |
| (Note: annotated bibliography due February 15 also) |
| February 29: Ahmedabad, India (plus the film Born Into Brothels) |
| Assignment #6 (due February 29) |
| Reading on Cultural Landscapes |
| March 7: Looking around in the Tropics (Granada, Nicaragua / Havana, Cuba - Part One) |
| Assignment #7 (due March 7) |
| Reading #1 on Material Culture |
| Reading #2 on Material Culture |
| March 14: Cultural Landscapes (Guest: Prof. Nik Luka) |
| Assignment #8 (due March 14) |
| Reading on Postmodernism |
| March 21: Guest, Prof. Annmarie Adams: Inside the Home (Weston Havens house and more...) |
| Assignment #9 (due March 21) |
| A. Adams and P. Sijpkes: Wartime Housing and Architectural Change |
| A. Adams: The Eichler Home |
| March 28: overview of Newfoundland Modern and Havana (Part Two) |
| (Guest for the 1'st half of the seminar: Prof. Scott Shall, Temple University) |
| Assignment #10 (due March 28) |
| Reading on Fieldwork |
| April 4: Student Presentations |
| April 11: Student Presentations |