The course content is delivered in thirteen two-hour sessions in the first semester of the academic year. The sequence of lectures is divided into three groups: The Pre-Urban House, The Urban Oriental House, The Urban Occidental House.
1. The Pre-urban House
1st Session: Introduction: The genesis of human shelter, animal shelter; the analogy to clothes and animal structures
Sept. 1 Ephemeral, transient dwellings:
African Bushmen Skerm
BaMbuti Pygmy Hut
Arunta Hut
Episodical or irregular Temporary Dwellings:
Inuit Igloo
Plains Indians, Tungus and Lapp tents (tepees)
Wai-Wai and Yanomamo Communal Dwellings
Erigbaagtsa and Cubeo Maloca Dwellings
Malaysian Sea Dayak Long Houses
Historic Long Houses in Germany and Hungary
2nd Session: Quasi sedentary
Societies
Sept.8
Periodic and Seasonal Dwellings
3d Session:
Agrarian Societies
Sept. 15
Semi permanent and Permanent Dwellings
2. The Oriental Urban House:
4th session:
Urban Dwellings of the 4 Ancient Civilizations;
Sept. 22
Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China
5th Session:
The Peristyle house and the Greek City
Sept. 29
The Domus and Insulae of the Roman City
6th Session
The Urban house of India and China
Oct.6
The Islamic House
3. The Occidental Urban House
Oct. 11 T
hanksgiving
7th Session:
Urban Dwellings of the Dark Ages
Oct. 13
Hour 1 : Midterm Test
Oct. 13
Hour 2:
The Occidental Medieval House and the Fortress City
Renaissance: Townhouses and their Urban Environment
8th Session:
19th Century: Urban dwellings and the Industrial City
Oct. 20
9th Session:
19th Century: From Villa district to Suburbs
Oct. 27
10th Session: Apartment
Houses: Paris, Edinburgh, London and New York City
Nov. 3
11th Session: Domestic
Revival
Nov. 10
Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil
12th Session: 20th
Century: Servant less Urban and Suburban Dwellings
Nov. 17:
Post World War II: Low Rise and High Rise Housing
13th Session:
Nov. 24
Recent trends in Housing Design
November 30th Last day of classes
Norbert Schoenauer, 6,000 years of Housing, 2000, W.W. Norton and Comapny,
New York London
Norbert Schoenauer, History of Housing, 1992, School of Architecture,
McGill University Montreal.
Karl von Frisch, Animal Architecture, 1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Bernard Rudofsky, The Prodigious Builders, 1977, Secker &Warburg
Paul Oliver, Dwellings: The House Across the World, 1987, University of Texals Press, Austin.
Kaj Blegvaol Anderson, African Traditional Architecture, 1977, Oxford University Press.
Diamond Jennes, Indians of Canada, 1963, National Museum of Canada, Bulletin65
R. and G. Laubin, The Indian Tipi, Ballantine Books.
Torvald Faegre, Tents: ARchitecture of the Nomads, 1979, Anchor Books.
Vincent Scully, Pueblo-Mountain, Village, Dance, 1972, The Viking Press.
A.G. McKay, Houses, Villas and Palaces in the Roman World, 1975, Thames and Hudson.
Ronald G. Knapp, The Chinese House, 1990, OxfordUniversity Prees, Hong Kong.
Hassan Fathy, Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture, 1986, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
V.S. Pramar, Haveli, 1989, Mappin Publishing Prt. Ltd, Ahmedabad.
Horst Buttner and Guntar Meissmer, Town Houses of Europe, 1982, St. Martin's Press, New York.
David P. Handlin, The AMericn Home. 1979, Little, Brown and Co.
Stefan Muthesius, The English Terraced House, 1982, Yale University Press.
J.N. Tarn, Working Class Housing in 19th Century Britain, 1971, Lund Humphries.
Norbert Schoenauer, Arts + Crafts and Art Nouveau Dwellings 1996, School of Architecture, McGill University Montreal.
Norbert Schoenauer, Cities, Suburbs, Dwellings, 1994, School of Architecture, McGill University Montreal.
Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City, 1990, Columbia University Press, New York.
Le Corbusier et Francois de Pierrefeu, la Maison des Hommes, 1942, Librairie Plon, Paris.
Pieter Sijpkes, "The Four Lives of Pointe St. Cahrles", Grassoots, Greystones,
and Glass Towers, (Bryan Demchinsky ed.)
1982, Vehicule Press, Montreal.
Pieter Sijpkes, "Learning from the Pointe", The Fifth Column, Vol.1, no
4, 1981.
