Art 270
Early Modern Architecture

Ann Gilkerson, Department of Art

Art 270 Course Syllabus


Abbe Laugier
Essay on Architecture
1753, 2nd edition 1755
Architectural Treatise

James Stuart & Nicholas Revett
Erechtheion on the Acropolis
Athens, Greece

1751 engraving
Antiquities of Athens
4 volumes, 1762-1816

J.-G Soufflot
Ste.Genevieve
(now the Pantheon) SW View
begun 1757
Paris

J.-G Soufflot
Ste.Genevieve Interior
(now the Pantheon)
begun 1757
Paris

J.-G Soufflot
Ste.Genevieve Plan
(now the Pantheon)
begun 1757
Paris

Robert Adam
Kedleston Hall, Exterior
View of South (Garden) Elevation
begun 1759
Derbyshire, England

Robert Adam
Kedleston Hall, Plan
begun 1759
Derbyshire, England

Robert Adam
Syon House,Interior
View of Entrance Hall
begun 1759
Middlesex, England

Robert Adam
Syon House, Plan
begun 1759
Middlesex, England

Place Louis XV
(now Place de la Concorde)

Bird's Eye View
1748 Competition
Commission Awarded to
Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1755
Paris

Bedford Square
West Side
ca. 1776
by Robert & William Scott Grews
London

Praca do Commercio
Aerial View
by Eugenio dos Santos
after 1755 Earthquake4
Lisbon

Jacques Gordoin
School of Surgery
Interior View
of the Anatomy Gallery
1769-74
Paris

William Chambers
Somerset House
(Idealized)
Engraving by J.L. Desprez
1776-96
London

Frederick Gilly
Design for a Monument
to Frederick the Great

1797
Unbuilt Project

Stourhead Pleasure Grounds
View to the Pantheon

(for Henry Hoare)begun late 1760s
Wiltshire, England

View of "Island of Poplars"
w/ Rousseau's cenotaph & Temple of Philosophy

1766-70
Temple by Marquis de Girardin
Ermenonville, France

E.L.Boullee
Cenotaph for Newton
ca. 1784
Unbuilt Project

E.L.Boullee
Royal Library
Interior of Proposed New Hall

ca. 1780s
Unbuilt Project

Robert Adam
Culzean Castle
1777-90
Scotland

George Dance
Newgate Prison
1768-75
London

Pierre-Francois Palley
Monument to the Revolution
1789
Paris

Charles de Wailly
Project to Transform the Pantheon
1797
Paris

Sir John Soane
Bank Stock Office
(rendering by Joseph Gandy)
1791-93
London

John Nash
Regent Street & Park Map
1811
London

Horace Walpole
Strawberry Hill
As seen in an engraving
begun 1750
Twickenham (near London)

James Wyatt
for William Beckford
Fonthill Abbey
West & North Flanks from 1823 etching
begun 1787
Wiltshire, England

James Wyatt
for William Beckford
Fonthill Abbey
Interior View of Great Western (from engraving)
1796-1813
Wiltshire, England

Leo van Klenze
Walhalla
As seen in a painting
begun 1830
near Regensburg, Germany

Leo van Klenze
Glyptothek & Propylaeum
As seen in a painting
1816-43
Munich

Barry & Pugin
Houses of Parliament
1830s
London (Whitehall)

A.W.N. Pugin
St. Giles
1839-44
Cheadle, England

A.W.N. Pugin
St. Giles Plan
1839-44
Cheadle, England

Victor Considerant
Phalanstery
unbuilt architectural project
1834

Henri Labrouste
Bibliotheque Ste.-Genevieve
1838-50
Paris

Henri Labrouste
Bibliotheque Ste.-Genevieve
Second Floor reading Room
1838-50
Paris

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Shauspielhaus
(New Theater)
1818-21
Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Bauakademie
print by E. Gartner 1868)
1832-35
Berlin

William Butterfield
All Saints Church
Margaret Street View)
1849-59
London

William Butterfield
All Saints Church
Plan
1849-59
London

G.G. Scott
St. Pancras Station & Midland Hotel
1866-77
London

G.G. Scott
St. Pancras Station
Interior of Shed
1866-77
London

Joseph Paxton
Crystal Palace
Great Exhibition of the
Works of All Nations
1851
London

Joseph Paxton
Crystal Palace
Under Construction
(drawing)
1850-51
London

Deane & Woodward
Oxford Science Museum
(1876 drawing)
begun 1853
Oxford

Deane & Woodward
Oxford Science Museum
Interior View Central Court
begun 1853
Oxford

Philip Webb
Red House
(for William Morris)
1860s3
Bexleyheath, Kent, England

Louis-Auguste Boileau
St.Eugene-Ste-Cecile
Interior View
1854-56
Paris

Alexandre Laplanche
Au Bon Marche
Exterior View
1872
Paris

Alexandre Laplanche
Au Bon Marche
Interior View
1872
Paris

Baron Georges Haussmann
Projected Transformation of Paris
As Presented by Jean Alphand
1853-70
Paris

F.A. Duquesny
Gare de l'Est
Exterior View
1847-52
Paris

Victor Baltard
Les Halles
drawing
1852-55
Paris

Apartment House
Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin

Engraving
ca. 1855
Paris

Charles Garnier
New Opera
from across the
Place de l'Opera
1863-75
Paris

Edouard Detaille
Opening of the Paris Opera House
oil
1875
Paris

Vienna Ringstrasse
plan

Engraving
1860
Vienna

Ildefonso Cerda
Plan for Barcelona
as adopted in 1860
Barcelona

Victor Horta
Tassel House
Interior: Stairhall
1892
Brussels

Gustave Eiffel
View of the Exposition Universelle:
The Eiffel Tower

1889
Paris

View of the Exposition Universelle:
The Palais des Beaux Arts

1889
Paris

Giuseppe Sacconi
Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
1884
Rome

Templeton's Carpet Factory
Exterior
1889-92
Glasgow

Charles R. Mackintosh
Glasgow School of Art
Entry Facade
1897-1909
Glasgow

Hector Guimard
Metro Station for
Exposition of 1900

1900
Paris