Early Modern Architecture

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Focuses on the creation of modern building types such as the bank, state capitol, museum, railroad station, and skyscraper. After considering the forms and meanings associated with neoclassicism, examines the Gothic revival and subsequent 19th-century movements (e.g., high Victorian Gothic, Second Empire, beaux-arts classicism) as efforts to find appropriate expressions for diverse building forms. Students consider changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution, including developments in technology, and the reforms of art nouveau and secession architecture.