Modern Architecture

The course embraces the last century and a half in the history of architecture, when traditional fables began to yield to more scientifically conceived ideas of architecture’s role in the creation of civilizations, when architecture began to contribute more directly to social and philosophical systems, and when expanding print and media culture accelerated the migration of ideas. In this course, major centers of urban culture and their characteristic buildings alternate with attention to individual concepts and their impact in an increasingly interconnected and global culture of architecture. (Required in M.Arch. I first term.)