Andri Gerber: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2017

Name Dr. Andri Gerber
FieldHistory of architecture and urban development
Address
ZHAW
Tössfeldstrasse 11, Postfach 805
Institut Urban Landscape
8401 Winterthur
SWITZERLAND
DepartmentArchitecture
RelationshipPrivatdozent

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
051-0363-00LHistory of Urban Design I Information
Expiring study program according to BSc 2011 regulations.
2 credits2GA. Gerber
AbstractThe lecture focuses on the history of the city and of its environment, on the processes and actors that foster and accompany their developments and transformations. Main objects of study will be urban situations in Europe and the USA.
Learning objectiveThe lecture course concerns itself mainly with the definition of town planning as an independent discipline, in its relation to other disciplines that are concerned with the transformation of the city. This topic is (presented) projected? upon the history of the city – understood widely as urban landscape – with the complex network of human and non-human actors it encompasses. Town planning understood as “Kulturtechnik”, implies a consideration of its disciplinary limits. These are related to the scale and complexity of the urban dimension. Consequently, the “heroic history” of town planning is put in question.
ContentIn the first semester our specific approach and questioning of the history of town planning
is given along the thematic issues from the beginning of urban culture until the mid-19th century. 

01. Introduction: Which history for which discipline?

02. Once upon a time there was a town…

03: Greece and the birth of “democratic” space

04: Rome: „planetary urbanism“

05: Middle Ages: between shrinking and growth

06: Renaissance and its unaccomplished ideals

07: Renaissance gardens as urban laboratories

08: Roma! From “rotting giant” to renovatio urbis

09: Paris: La ville c’est moi?

010: Town planning between absolutism and enlightenment

011: English landscape garden as spatial politics
Lecture notesSome printed pages will be distributed before every lecture and together they will form the script for the semester. The script serves as an auxiliary means to the attended lecture compiling the most important illustrations showed and the names and dates of the buildings and its builders along with a short introductory note.
LiteratureFurther recommended literature to consult is listet within the script.
Prerequisites / NoticeHistory of Urban Design from antiquity to the 19th century