Art History 288: Paris-Berlin: Capitals & Crossroads of the 20th Century.

DRAFT ITINERARY (subject to slight modification)

Professor Amy Lyford, Spring 2017

Date / Course Content and Agenda / Location and Site Visits
May 31
(Wednesday) / Arrival at Paris/CDG Airport.
Pickup by IES Partners at Airport and transfer to Paris hotel by Bus. / Paris arrival, Bus transfer for students to hotel. (If arriving separately, make own way to Paris hotel.)
Welcome Dinner with IES Staff.
June 1 (Thursday) / Orientation at IES Center, Paris (AM)
Boat Tour of Paris via Seine.
Imaging Paris Project Begins / Meet at IES Center rue Daguerre, for IES Orientation.
Boat tour of Seine location TBD.
Begin work on Imaging Paris project.
June 2 (Friday) / Modernism in Paris 1 (AM)
Site Research on your own (PM) / Musee Rodin, Luxembourg,6th/7th arr.
Various research sites, Paris.
June 3 (Saturday) / Modernism in Paris 2 / Musee Picasso, 3rdarr.
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Pompidou Center,4th arr.
Tour of Cluny, 5th arr.
June 4 (Sunday) / Site research on your own (AM)
The history of old Paris – Marais walking tour (PM) / Various locations in Paris AM
Guest Lecture 1: Walking tour of Marais in afternoon.
Group Dinner at Restaurant 404 (or such) after.
June 5 (Monday) / Student Research Presentations Day 1 (4) / Various locations in Paris
Meeting at IES to debrief 4-5pm
June 6 (Tuesday) / Student Research Presentations Day 2 (3-4) / Various locations in Paris
Meeting at IES to debrief 4-5pm
June 7 (Wednesday) / From Montmartre to Montparnasse
Le Corbusier in Paris
Imaging Paris project / Guest Lecture 2: From Montmartre to Montparnasse, IES Center 9:30-11am
Tour of Maison La Roche, 16th arr.
Imaging Paris Presentations at IES Center 4-5pm
June 8 (Thursday) / Le Corbusier’s Modernism at Poissy / Day Trip to Villa Savoye, Poissy, by bus.
June 9 (Friday) / Paris in the late 1930s: From the International Exposition to the Occupation / Palais de Tokyo/Trocadero, 16th arr.
Shoah Memorial Visit, 4th arr.
June 10 (Saturday) / Departure by Train for Berlin. Day-long train travel. Met by IES staff, and transfer to Berlin hotel by bus. / Depart Paris-Est for Berlin 9am; evening arrival at Berlin Hbf, ~6pm.
Welcome Dinner with IES Staff
June 11(Sunday) / Tour hotel area; City Bus Tour.
Modernism in Berlin 1
Site research on your own / Walking (local) and Bus Tour of Berlin, 10:30am-2pm
Berlinische Galerie 3:30-5pm
Various sites in Berlin
June 12 (Monday) / Orientation at IES Center Berlin
Site Research on your own / IES Center, Berlin; Alexanderplatz for lunch; cell phone purchase (9:15am-3pm)
Various Sites in Berlin
June 13 (Tuesday) / Weimar Culture and Modernism in Berlin 2 / Guest Lecture 1: Dr. Sabine Kriebel on Weimar Culture (10-11:30am) IES Ctr)
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum (PM)
Group Dinner at Literaturhaus-Wintergarten after Museum Visit (Charlottenburg)
June 14 (Wednesday) / Student Research Presentations 1 (4) / Various Locations in Berlin
Meet at IES to debrief5:30-6:30 pm
June 15 (Thursday) / Student Research Presentations 2 (3-4) / Various Locations in Berlin
Meet at IES to debrief5:30-6:30 pm
June 16 (Friday) / National Socialism: urbanism and the state / Guest Lecture 2: Tempelhof/Nazi Architecture (AM) – on site
Topography of Terror (PM)
June 17 (Saturday) / The Final Solution 1 / Day Trip to Haus of the Wannsee Conference, via S-Bahn.
Group lunch at Restaurant Seehase afterwards.
June 18 (Sunday) / Bauhaus Dessau 1
Photography Project begins. / Overnight Excursion to Bauhaus, Dessau by Train. Depart morning.
Stay overnight in Bauhaus student apartments.
June 19 (Monday) / Bauhaus Dessau 2 / Return from Bauhaus Dessau by Train in the afternoon. (last checkout at 10:30am from Bauhaus Dessau)
June 20 (Tuesday) / Photography and the Bauhaus Project / Work on your own during the day.
Meet IES Center for presentations 4-7pm.
June 21 (Wednesday) / The Final Solution 2 / Day Trip to SachsenhausenConcentration Camp, via S-Bahn.
June 22 (Thursday) / History, Memory, Modernism, and Movement / Final Wrap-up discussion at IES Center, 9:30-11:00am.
Afternoon Free.
Farewell Dinner with IES Staff
June 23 (Friday) / Departure from Berlin. / Latest Check out at 11am from hotel.

**Please note that the trip also includes two cultural events, one in each city:

Paris: we will attend the Paris Opera

Berlin: we will attend a classical music concert.