Research Pa.per – Historical and Contemporary Comparison
The purpose of this project is to compare and contrast a significant work of historical architecture (before 1500 CE) and a significant modern or contemporary work of architecture in Los Angeles.
The research pa.per will be 2000 words in length, plus diagrams, images and a list of works cited.
Choose from the list below, or propose a comparison to the instructor via Canvas message.
Suggested comparisons include:
- The Athenian Acropolis and the Getty Center, Brentwood
- The Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum and the Getty Villa, Malibu
- The Pantheon, Rome and the Griffith Observatory, Hollywood
- The Colosseum, Rome and the SoFi Stadium, Inglewood
- Saint-Étienne, Caen, France (or other Romanesque Cathedral) and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles
- Katsura Imperial Villa and Gardens, Kyoto, Japan and The Gamble House, Pasadena
- Governor’s Palace + Nunnery, Uxmal, ca 900CE and the Barnsdall House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hollywood
Diagrams and images include:
- Exterior Photograph
- Interior Photograph
- Site Context
- Site Plan
- Plan
- Section
- Front Elevation
- Organization – axis, symmetry, module
- Circulation – approach, threshold, program and path
- Structure
- Where appropriate all diagrams must have the following:
- North Arrow
- Scale
- Scale Figure
- Descriptive Caption and source
