Architectural Fantasies

How have buildings stirred the imagination and fulfilled specific kinds of desires at specific historical moments? In this course we will consider the often blurred lines and tensions between fantasy and reality in architecture. Class lectures and discussion will consider fantastical architecture in all its forms and as it was ‘realized’ from the Renaissance to the present day across different cultures and media (paper, models, reproductions, etc),Examples include Leonardo da Vinci’s Golden Horn Bridge, Piranesi’s Capriccios and Carceri, Giulio Camillo’s fabled Memory Theater; Boullée’s Cenotaph, Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, world-exposition pavilions, and Archigram’s drawings in the 1970’s, just to name a few.