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This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment.

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277 years, 9 months

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10

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It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity at large. It explores modern architectural history through thematic exposition rather than as a simple chronological succession of ideas

Course Currilcum

  • Constructing the Past Unlimited
  • Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Unlimited
  • Landscape Unlimited
  • Architecture as Ornament Unlimited
  • Domesticity; Gender in Space Unlimited
  • Body Talk Unlimited
  • Ludic Spaces Unlimited
  • Lines Across the City Architecture and the State Unlimited
  • Post-War Narratives of “Development” Unlimited
  • Final Lecture Unlimited