This course is an exploration of chronological, technological, and iconographical relationships in American architecture of the second half of the nineteenth century. The topics are as follows:

I. Ruskinian, High Victorian Gothic, and the Stick Style.
II. The Second Empire Mode.
III. The American Neo-Grec: Richard Morris Hunt and the Tenth Street Studio.
IV. Henry Hobson Richardson, the Richardsonian Romanesque, and the Queen Anne Style.
V. Technological Antecedents to the Skyscraper.
VI. The Skyscraper.
VII. Architecture and American Transcendentalism: Leopold Eidlitz, Frank Furness, and Louis Sullivan.
VIII. The Beaux-Arts Mode.

Two examinations and three book reviews are requirements for the course.

Art history majors, graduate students, and honor students will earn an extra credit by conducting an individual monitored research on a problem related to the course and submitting a paper at the end of the semester.