This seminar proposes to examine the long history of one of the most important and persistent building types in Western architectural history, the Villa. Tracing the emergence and development of the villa from the 15th century up to the 20th century will not only allow us to understand and appreciate the continuities and discontinuities in the history of a building type but also, thanks to the numerous studies devoted to the villa in the last decades, to gauge how a ‘type’ can evoke very different forms and strategies of architectural historical research. The seminar will consist of a number of lectures and the writing and presentation of a paper.
Rooster
Timetable 2008-2009
Onderwijsvorm
Seminar meetings
Leerdoelen
- To gather insight in the historical development of the Villa as a building type. – To understand and test various methods of architectural historical analysis. – To gather insight into the function and meaning of the notions ‘type’ and ‘typology’ in architectural history, historiography and theory.
Literatuur
James Ackerman, The villa: form and ideology of country houses. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Pierre De la Ruffinière du Prey, The villas of Pliny from antiquity to posterity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Amanda Lillie, _Florentine villas in the fifteenth-century: an architectural and social hist_ory, CUP, 2005
Toetsing
Presentation and paper (5000 words)
Informatie
Dr. M.J.F. Delbeke m.delbeke@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. J.G. Roding j.roding@hum.leidenuniv.nl