Modern Architecture & Urbanism

Catalog description

This course surveys modernist developments in architecture and urbanism from approximately 1890 to the present. Global in scope, the course considers the built environment in terms of the technological, aesthetic, and theoretical issues intrinsic to architecture. It also examines the relationship of buildings and cities to broader forces, whether political, cultural, social, or economic, to clarify just what was “modern” about modern architecture. Fulfills AUS and post-1800 requirement for Art History major. No prerequisites.