May 13, 2013: Course work Preparationn
May 14, 2013: Course work Preparation
May 16, 2013 Students Leave USA
May 16, 2013 Students Leave USA
Friday May 17, 2013
Arrival at St. Christopher’s Inn, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France
Meet with MIAD Faculty
Day 1: Saturday 5/18/2013 MEDIEVAL
PARIS: A City Orientation / History of Paris
Meet at the Hostel at 9:00 AM
Visit: Notre Dame and Cité de l’Architecture et du
Patrimoine: Musée de Monuments Français
Group Dinner – Bouillon Chartier -- Nuit des Musées and boat trip on
the Seine
READING: The Seven
Ages of Paris, Introduction "From Caesar to Abelard" and “Age
One 1180-1314: Philip Auguste”; Victor Hugo, "Book First: Chapter
I. The Grand Hall", "Book Third: Chapter II. A Bird's Eye View of
Paris", "Book Fifth: II. This Will Kill That" in Notre Dame
de Paris
Day 2: Sunday 5/19/2013 ENTRENCHED
ARISTOCRACY: The Retreat to Versailles
Meet at the Hostel at 7:30 AM; Versailles Day Trip 7:30 am - 8:00 pm
Gardens / Fountains /Grande Eaux Musicaux (10:00 – noon)
Student Explorations of: Petit Trianon, Grande Trianon, and L’Hameau (noon - 4:00)
Group
Exploration of Palace: 4:00 – 6:30
Gardens / Fountains /Grande Eaux Musicaux (10:00 – noon)
Student Explorations of: Petit Trianon, Grande Trianon, and L’Hameau (noon - 4:00)
READING: The
Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Three 1643-1795: Louis XIV"; Caroline
Weber, Introduction and Chapter 6: " The Simple Life" from Queen
of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution; Iain Borden, “Versailles
–
A Political Themepark,” in Architecture and the Sites of
History
Day 3: Monday 5/20/2013 REVOLUTION:
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...and the Art Museum
Meet at the Hostel at 8:00 AM
Louvre
Grand Gallery (9:30 – 12:00)
Lunch
Break at Carrosel du Louvre – Food Court for group discussion
Louvre
(1:00 – 5:00) Individual Projects
Optional
evening in Montmartre
READING: The
Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Two 1314-1643: Henri IV" and “Age
Four 1795-1815: Napoleon", Andrew McClellan, Chapter 3 “The
Revolutionary Louvre" in Inventing the Louvre
Day 4: Tuesday 5/21/2013 CHURCH
AND RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: Re-birth of Philosophy
Meet
at the Hostel at 8:00 AM
Ste.
Chapelle
Latin
Quarter walk with Bibliothèque Ste. Geneviève
Pantheon
/ Foucault’s Pendulum
READING: Philip Blom, "Chapter 1. City of
Lights", "Chapter 9. A Natural Philosophy", "Epilogue: A
Stolen Revolution from A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the
European Enlightenment; Russell Shorto, "Unholy Relics" in Descartes
Bones
Day 5: Wednesday 5/22/2013: STUDENT
SELF EXPLORATION DAY
Day 6: Thursday 5/23/2013:
THE
BIRTH OF MODERNISM: Realism vs. Impressionism
Meet
at the Hostel at 9:00 AM
Musée
Rodin 10:30 – 2:00 (Lunch on your own)
Musee
D’Orsay 4:00 – 9:45
READING: The
Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Five 1815-1871: The Commune"; Courbet,
"Realist Manifesto"; T. J. Clark, "Chapter Two: Olympia's
Choice" in The Painting of Modern
Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers;
Rosalind Krauss, "The Originality of the Avant-Garde”; David Pinkney, “Napoleon III’s Transformation of Paris”
Day
7: Friday 5/24/2013: ARCHITECTURE OF IRON and TOWARDS
A NEW ARCHITECTURE
Meet
at the Hostel at 8:00 AM
Corbusier
Foundation: Maison La Roche 10:00 AM
Art
Nouveau Walking tour
Art
Nouveau Metro Stops Porte Dauphine
Optional
Eiffel Tower ascent
READING: Hector
Guimard, “An Architect’s
Opinion of Art Nouveau”; Siegfried Bing, “L’Art
Nouveau”;
Reyner
Banham, "Paris: The World of Art and Le Corbusier" Section Four in Theory
and Design in the First Machine Age; Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture in Architecture and Design in Europe and
America, 1750-2000, Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime" in Architecture
& Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000
Day 8: Saturday 5/25/2013: PRIMITIVISM
Meet
at the Hostel at 8:00
Musée
Quay Branley
Student
Defined Exploration Afternoon: Orangerie, Grand Palais, Petite Palais, Palais
Toyko, Cluny…
READING: The
Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Six 1871-1940: The Treaty of Versailles";
Patricia Leighton, "The White Peril and L'Art negre: Picasso, Primitivism
and Anticolonialism"
Day 9: Sunday 5/26/2013: FROM
CUBISM TO PURISM: The Philosophies of Abstraction
Meet
at the Hostel at 8:00 AM
Musee d’Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Centre
Georges Pompidou and Brancusi Studio
Group
Dinner – Creperie Beaubourg
READING: D-H
Kahnweiler, excerpt from "The Rise of Cubism", 1915 in Theories of
Modern Art; Tristan Tzara, "Lecture on Dada," 1924 in Theories
of Modern Art; Ozenfant & Jeanneret, After Cubism" in L'Espirit
Nouveau: Purism in Paris 1918-1925; Piet Mondrian, "Plastic Art and
Pure Plastic Art ("Figurative Art and Non-Figurative Art") in Theories
of Modern Art
Day 10: Monday 5/27/2013: STUDENT
SELF EXPLORATION DAY
Day 11: Tuesday 5/28/2013: PAST
AND PRESENT: Contemporary settings for Art
Meet at
the Hostel at 9:00 AM
Bibliotheque
Nationale De Richelieu (2-4 private visit)
Arab
Institute (10-6)
Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain (11-10)
READING:
The
Seven Ages of Paris, "Age Seven 1940-1969: DeGaulle"; Bernard
Tschumi,"The Pleasure of Architecture" (March 1977) in Theorizing
a New Agenda for Architecture 1965-1995; Atget: The Art of Documentary
photography (exhibition); Sylvie Aubenas, Gustave le Gray Between Shadow and
Light. “The Progress Big Man A Conversation with Ron Mueck;”
Ron Mueck at Fondation Cartier
Day 12: Wednesday 5/29/2013: TECHNOLOGY,
(Artful) MACHINES AND PUBLIC SPACE
Meet at
the Hostel at 8:00 AM
D.
Perrault's Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Simone
de Beauvoir bridge
Frank
Gehry’s Cinemathèque
Francaise
READING: Walter
Benjamin, "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and/or John
Berger, Chapter 1 in Ways of Seeing; John Berger, "Chapter 3"
from Ways of Seeing; Graham Robb, "Lovers of
Saint-Germain-des-Pres" Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris; Simone
de Beauvoir, excerpt from The Second Sex
Day 13: Thursday 5/30/2013: CONTEMPORARY
ART and DESIGN IN PARIS
Meet at
the Hostel at 8:00 AM
Le 104
(Renovated Art Space)
Maison de Verre (2pm private visit)
Maison de Verre (2pm private visit)
Colette
(213 rue Saint-Honoré) and contemporary art galleries in and
around the Marais
READING: Simon
Sadler, "Introduction and Chapter 1" in Situationist City; Guy
Debord, Parts I-XIII, in Comments on a Society of Spectacle; Graham
Robb, "Expanding the Domain of the Possible" in Parisians: An
Adventure History of Paris; Kenneth Frampton, “Maison de
Verre” in JSAH
Day 14: Friday 5/31/2013: RADICAL
INVERSIONS: deconstructing the urban park
Meet at
the Hostel at 10:00 AM (pack a bag lunch)
Parc de
Butte Chaumont
Parc de
la Villette
READING: "Architecture
Where Desire Can Live: Jacques Derrida interviewed by Eva Meyer" in Theorizing
a New Agenda for Architecture 1965-1995; Lodewijk Baljon, "Part One,
Introduction" "Part Three, La
Villette: An Instructive Lesson" and "Appendix" in Designing
Parks; Elizabeth Meyer, “Public Park as Avant Garde Architecture
Day 15: Saturday 6/1/2013: STUDENT
RESEARCH DAY
Completion
of Letters
Final Group
Dinner
Day 16: Sunday 6/2/2013: DEPARTURE: Students finished with coursework in
Paris
June 27-28, 2013: Required Project
Review and Group Critique.
August 12-16, 2013 (final projects due
and exhibition installation during the week)
August 2013 -- EXHIBITION AT MIAD - LOBBY GALLERY
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