ARTS 338 - Topics in Architecture, Modern and Postmodern

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU

This course will provide a broad overview of the history of 20th century architecture, relating key buildings and images of buildings to the historical, scientific, technical, economic, ideological, and aesthetic concepts that they are shaped by, and that they in turn help to construct.  Particular emphasis will be given to the contentious and fractured character of modernist architectural theory and practice. In addition to the work of canonical figures (Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, etc.), we will examine examples of the complex modernisms of non-Western or non-Northern cultures (e.g. Japan, Brazil), of collective modes of architectural production, and the numerous challenges put to modernism from the 1950’s to today. Enrollment Limit:  30.
Instructor: J. Harwood
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