Global History of Architecture II

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This course explores the global history of architecture from the beginning of the Seventeenth Century through the early Twenty-First Century. Select themes and topics are used to identify patterns of cultural, intellectual, behavioral, urban, and artistic trends changing over time around the world, focusing on the local and regional specificities of cultural and spatial contexts. Special attention is paid to the secular shift in western modernity and its impact on art, architecture, city planning, and construction methods in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Seminal writings on the parallel and divergent histories and theories of architecture alongside the rise of capitalism, nationalism, regionalism, technological modernization, and revolutionary political ideologies help to better understand current issues regarding cultural diversity and social equity. Relevant buildings, city plans, drawings, manifestos, and artistic movements from diverse global locations are discussed in close detail, as these are shifting conceptions of ornament, structure, architecture, beauty, nature, progress, utopia, values and truth. Classroom Hours- Laboratory and/or Studio Hours- Course Credits: 3-0-3 Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisite: ARCH 661