WINTER 2001
This information effective for Winter 2001.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: Virginia Jansen
e-mail: goth@cats.ucsc.edu
Office hrs. FQ = Tues 2 - 3:00, Thurs 2 - 2:30 & 5:00 -
5:45pm
Cowell 203; tel. 459-2055
All students of any major Welcome!
No previous background required.
Campus planning and architecture from the earliest beginnings in the Middle Ages at Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester to the most recent university campuses, with particular emphasis on UCSC and other 1960s plans.
Study will proceed largely chronologically. Includes planning issues, ideological constructs of different educational systems and values and their social and architectural semiotic reflections. Begins with monastic cloister plan developed from Roman villa plan applied first at Merton College, Oxford, Winchester College, Winchester, and New College, Oxford. American developments move from single, "main buildings" at Harvard, William & Mary, Princeton, Yale, University of Pittsburgh, and development of campus at Princeton, University of Virginia, Stanford, UC Berkeley including Hearst plan, University of Chicago, etc. Development of technical and land-grant colleges. Collegiate planning at Yale (Harkness, etc.), Harvard (Lowell, etc.), Princeton (Graduate College), Claremont Colleges, Swarthmore, Yale (Morse & Stiles). Developments in later 20th century, including 60s+ planning at such campuses as UC Irvine, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Konstanz University, Kent University Canterbury, Frankfurt University, community colleges such as Foothill in Los Altos Hills, Pima in Tucson, etc. Throughout, ideas relevant to planning and development of UCSC emphasized. Architectural ideas of individual buildings also considered. Campuses designed by famous architects such as Principia by Maybeck, Florida Southern by Frank Lloyd Wright, IIT by Mies van der Rohe included.
Paul V. Turner, Campus: An American Planning Tradition
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Alma Mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s
Course Reader including the following:
Planning documents, e.g., Winchester College regulations
Campus plans
A. Wharton, "Gender, Architecture and Institutional Self- Presentation: The Case of Duke University," South Atlantic Quarterly, 90:1 (1991), 175-217
H. L. Horowitz, "Designing for the Genders: Curricula and Architecture at Scripps College and the California Institute of Technology," Pacific Historical Review, LIV:4 (1985), 439-61
Extracts from UCSC planning documents, such as:
LRDP 1963
LRDP 1971
LRDP Implementation Plan, 1993
Instructor: Sheila Crane
Art History Department
Arts Division, Porter Collge, UCSC
Office: D-227 Porter College
Phone: 459-3536
E-mail: scrane@cats.ucsc.edu
Note: This is preliminary syllabus for the course
This seminar will consider issues of gender and sexuality in architecture, from design and construction to habitation and experience of architectural spaces, and selected case studies where buildings have functioned as belongings. Working from the growing body of recent literature in architectural history addressing these concerns, we will discuss critical and methodological approaches to gender and sexuality in architecture. The course will also be concerned with the relation of personal and collective identities to the built environment, from one's own personal environments, which often consist of both an architectural structure and objects placed within that space, to broadly defined urban spaces. Our discussions will also serve as a means of preparing students to conceive and write their own extended research paper on a topic of their choice developed in consultation with the instructor. Presentations and discussion of students' papers will be the subject of the two final sessions.
week one: Introductory discussion
An overview and discussion of the key topics and issues that will
form the focus of the course.
Readings:
Richard A. Etlin, "Aesthetics and the Spatial Sense of Self," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (Winter 1998): 1-19.Johanna Druker, "Architecture and the Concept of the Subject," in Architects' People, ed. Russell Ellis and Dana Cuff (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 163-82.
Félix Guattari, "Space and Corporeity," Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory D 2: 139-48.
week two: Constructing gender and sexuality
Introduction to theories of gender, sex, and sexuality, focusing on
arguments about both the psychic constitution of subjectivity and the
ways in which the constitution and history of the gendered and sexed
body is crucial to the self and its relation to architectural
space.
Readings:
Donna J. Haraway, "'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word," in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York & London: Routledge, 1991).Whitney Davis, "Gender," in Critical Terms for Art History, ed. Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 220-233.
week three: Engendering modern architecture
A discussion of recent literature that has identified and questioned
the underlying gendered or sexed claims of modern architects,
architectural production, and architectural theory.
Readings:
Mark Wigley, White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995).Mary McLeod, "Undressing Architecture: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity," in Architecture: In Fashion, ed. Deborah Fausch et al (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994).
Robin Evans, "Comic Lines," The Projected Cast (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995).
Elizabeth Grosz, "Women, Chora, Dwelling," in Space, Time, and Perversion (New York & London: Routledge, 1995).
week four: Gendering habitation
In this meeting, we will consider the relation of gendered identity
to the creation and habitation of domestic spaces as well as the
implicit gendered assumptions that have long characterized housing.
We will examine the ways in which modern architecture and architects
produce particular subjects and stages intersubjective experiences
which are implicitly or explicitly gendered and/or sexualized.
Individual meetings between the instructor and each student will also
be held during this week to discuss their paper topics.
Readings:
Mark Wigley, "Untitled: The Housing of Gender," in Sexuality and Space, ed. Beatriz Colomina (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 327-89.Beatriz Colomina, "The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism," in Sexuality and Space, ed. Beatriz Colomina (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 73-128.
Steven Cohan, "So functional for its purposes: The Bachelor Apartment in Pillow Talk," in Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, ed. Joel Sanders (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
George Wagner, "The Lair of the Bachelor," in Architecture and Feminism, ed. Elizabeth Danze and Carol Henderson Debra Coleman (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Queers in (Single-Family) Space," Assemblage 24 (August 1994): 30-37.
week six: Subjectivity and the city
An examination of subjectivity as it is constructed and experienced
in urban spaces, through both theoretical writings and historical
examples.
Readings:
Elizabeth Grosz, "Bodies-Cities," in Space, Time and Perversion (New York and London: Routledge, 1995), 103-110.Anthony Vidler, "Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City: Psychopathologies of Modern Urbanism," Differences 3 (Fall 1993): 31-51.
Esther da Costa, "La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space," in The Sex of Architecture, ed. Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Diana Agrest (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
Sally Munt, "The Lesbian Flâneur," in Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, ed. David Bell & Gill Valentine (New York & London: Routledge, 1995), 114-25.
Georges Chauncey, "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public: Gay Uses of the Streets," in Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, ed. Joel Sanders (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
week four: Negotiating architects and inhabitants
Working from a series of case studies, we will discuss the process of
architectural production as a process of negotiation (and
confrontation) between the often conflicting identities and desires
of architects and clients.
Readings:
Alice Friedman, "Domestic Differences: Edith Farnsworth, Mies van der Rohe, and the Gendered Body," in Not At Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996).Farès el-Dahdah, "The Josephine Baker House: For Loos's Pleasure," Assemblage 26 (April 1995): 73-81.
Beatriz Colomina, "Battle Lines: E.1027," in The Sex of Architecture, ed. Diana Agrest et al. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).
Jonathan Hill, ed., Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User (New York: Routledge, 1998). [selection]
week seven: Buildings as belongings
In this session we will begin with a series of new readings
interested in charting relationships between subjects and constructed
environments. Building on our previous readings and conversations, we
will also open our discussion to a broader and more synthetic
discussion of methodological approaches to questions of gender and
sexuality in architecture and built environments. A detailed,
two-page research paper proposal will also be due in this
meeting.
Readings:
Clare Cooper Marcus, House as Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1995).Julienne Hanson, Decoding Homes and Houses (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton, The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
week eight: Case study: Natalie Clifford Barney and her
Parisian literary salon at 20 rue Jacob
This meeting will focus on an in-depth discussion of a case study
which will be intended in part as an example for students working on
their own research projects for the course. Starting from a drawing
by Natalie Clifford Barney that depicts her 1920s literary salon in
Paris, we will examine the ways in which both representations and the
actual spaces of Barney's house and garden were active and activated
elements in her own self-fashioning and in the construction of her
salon community. Most importantly, the Temple of Friendship in her
garden functioned as both a symbol of and actual space for the
literary and affective community that Barney attempted to create
following a reimagined Sapphic tradition.
Readings:
Sheila Crane, "Mapping the Salon: Topographies of Identity in Natalie Clifford Barney's Literary Salon" [manuscript]Natalie Clifford Barney, The One Who is Legion, or A.D.'s After-Life (London: Eric Partridge, 1930). [selections]
Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack (Normal, IL: Dalkely Archives Press, 1992).
Aldington, Robert. "The Amazon of Letters: A World Tribute to Natalie Clifford Barney," Adam: International Review 29 (1962). [selections]
Steven Cohan, "So functional for its purposes: The Bachelor Apartment in Pillow Talk," in Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, ed. Joel Sanders (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Beatriz Colomina, "The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism," in Sexuality and Space, ed. Beatriz Colomina (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 73-128.
Alice Friedman, "Domestic Differences: Edith Farnsworth, Mies van der Rohe, and the Gendered Body," in Not At Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996).
George Wagner, "The Lair of the Bachelor," in Architecture and Feminism, ed. Elizabeth Danze and Carol Henderson Debra Coleman (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Elizabeth Grosz, "Women, Chora, Dwelling," in Space, Time, and Perversion (New York & London: Routledge, 1995).
Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Queers in (Single-Family) Space," Assemblage 24, no. August (1994): 30-37.
Mark Wigley, "Untitled: The Housing of Gender," in Sexuality and Space, ed. Beatriz Colomina (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 327-89.
Elizabeth Grosz, "Bodies-Cities," in Space, Time and Perversion (New York and London: Routledge, 1995), 103-110.
Anthony Vidler, "Bodies in Space/Subjects in the City: Psychopathologies of Modern Urbanism," Differences 3, no. Fall (1993): 31-51.
[?] Peg Birmingham, "125th Street: Reconfiguring the Feminine in the City," in Edge of the Millenium (1993).
M. Christine Boyer, "Crimes in and of the City: The Femme Fatale as Urban Allegory," in The Sex of Architecture, ed. Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Diane Agrest (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).
Susan Buck-Morse, "The Flâneur, the Sandwichman, and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering," New German Critique 39, no. Fall (1986): 99-140.
Esther da Costa, "La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space," in The Sex of Architecture, ed. Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Diana Agrest (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
Félix Guattari, "Space and Corporeity," Columbian Documents of Architecture and Theory D 2: 139-48.
Sally Munt, "The Lesbian Flâneur," in Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, ed. David Bell & Gill Valentine (New York & London: Routledge, 1995), 114-25.
Georges Chauncey, "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public: Gay Uses of the Streets," in Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, ed. Joel Sanders (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Sarah Schulman, "People and Their Streets, Places," in Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance, ed. Anne-Marie Bouthillette Gordon Brent Ingram, and Yolanda Retter (Bay Press, 1997).
Zeynep Çelik, "Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism," Assemblage 17, no. April (1992): 59-77.
Farès el-Dahdah, "The Josephine Baker House: For Loos's Pleasure," Assemblage 26, no. April (1995): 73-81.
Le Corbusier, Modulor.
Robin Evans, "Comic Lines," The Projected Cast (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995).
Le Corbusier, Eileen Grey, Charlotte Perriand: Gendering Architects
Beatriz Colomina, "Battle Lines: E.1027," in The Sex of Architecture, ed. Diana Agrest et al .(New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).
Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, "La maison minimum," Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 1 (1932): 54.
Where Shadows Lie: Alice Pike Barney and Her Friends (Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
Natalie Clifford Barney, The One Who is Legion, or A.D.'s After-Life (London: Eric Partridge, 1930).
? Andrew Ballantyne, Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992).
John R. Clarke, The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
Rosalyn Deutsche, "Chinatown, Part Four?: What Jake Forgets About Downtown," in Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Cambridge & London: The MIT Press, 1996).
William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto, Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Doreen Massey, Space, Place, and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
Katie Scott, The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
Terry Smith, In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Katharina von Ankum, ed., Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Public Space/Gay Space
Marcia Ian, "When is a Body Not a Body? When It's a Building," in Stud: Architecturs of Masculinity (1996).
Scott Marble, ed., Architecture and Body, Précis (New York: Rizzoli, 1988).
P. von Naredi-Rainer, "Like the Parts of a Well-Formed Human Being," Daidalos no. 45 (1992): 64-71.
potential case studies:
Pierre Loti (his house) - with Orientalism section
The Red House - William Morris et al. [talk to Amy
Binghaman]
Whitney's thing