Warren E. Huff, instructor
The Philadelphia Center Elective
IDS 360
Class one:
THE TRIBAL VILLAGE, THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CITY
An examination of what Leaky calls "settling down", primitive people's
efforts away from a hunter-gatherer culture toward an agrarian culture (8,000
BC in the Near East to a building culture 7,000 BC).
Class two:
STRUCTURES
Post and Beam, Arch, Cantilever, Truss,
Class: three
PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY FIELD TRIP
A walking tour, starting at the Art Museum, of the living architectural,
planning
and urban design museum of downtown
Class four:
THE RISE OF THE CLASSICAL ORDERS
"ab origine, ad urbe condita" (from the beginning to the founding of the
city; used by the Romans in reckoning dates, Rome founded in 753 B. C.)
The buildings and spaces of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia and Egypt
(earliest date on the Egyptian calendar 4236 BC) to the fall of the Western
Roman Empire 476 AD; accretion and planning
Class five:
FEUDAL EUROPE TO THE AGE OF GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
"to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the mind can do."
An examination of competing and emerging forms, from 800 AD to1400 AD
Class six:
CONVENTION CENTER FIELD TRIP
Urban design, redevelopment and reinvestment, historic reuse and adaptation.
Class seven
RENAISSANCE TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Emerging technologies, materials and social and economic order allow for a
new esthetic to develop between 1400 & 1800
Class: eight
NOT JUST A MATTER OF STYLE, I
18TH & 19TH Century American Architectural styles and their historic context
Class nine:
NOT JUST A MATTER OF STYLE, II
20TH Century American Architectural styles and their historic context
Class ten:
LIBERTY PLACE FIELD TRIP
A) The high rise as form and B) visit style sites.
Class eleven:
DOYLESTOWN SATURDAY FIELD TRIP
A sense of place, a model neo traditional and smart growth and an eccentric
house
Class twelve:
URBAN PLANNING and LAW
An examination of the basis for urbanization in the United States since 1890,
especially federal housing law since Franklin Roosevelt
Class thirteen:
URBAN DESIGN (beyond architecture)
Zoning, subdivision, development controls, planned unit development, neo
traditional new towns, garden cities, environmental concerns, the electronic
community
Class fourteen:
Begin NEWTOWN CHARRETTE
5,000-acre smart growth site
Class Fifteen:
Continue NEWTOWN CHARRETTE
Continue to work on the land use, transportation, and urban design plan
Class sixteen:
NEWTOWN CHARRETTE
Presentation of PLAN to jury