history of modern architecture

Catalog Description

This class traces the development of architecture throughout the world during the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty First Century. Emphasis is on the evolution of architectural ideas and the connection between architecture and culture.

 

Reading

Required text

Colquhoun, Alan, Modern Architecture, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002

 

Supplemental Course Readings will be distributed during the semester.

Recommended Text (especially if you will also be taking ARCH 100 or ARCH 101)

Ingersoll, Richard and Kostof, Spiro, World Architecture: A Cross‐Cultural History, New York, Oxford Univ Press, 2013.

 

Student Learning Outcomes – from course outline

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the name, date, architect, and significance of specific works and also define terms from architectural history such as Prairie Style, Bauhaus, and Postmodern.

2. Analyze how the ideas of a particular culture were expressed in its architecture. For example, students will be able to track the relationships between avant‐garde art and the emerging International Style in architecture in the early 1900s.

3. Arrange major architectural developments in chronological order and describe how these may have influenced one another over time. For example, they will be able to trace how technological developments at the end of the Nineteenth Century, such as the use of the steel frame, set the stage for new thinking about architecture.

4. Collect and sort information from a variety of sources that is relevant to an architectural history topic. Formulate larger concepts from the data and refine them into a complete and defensible thesis.

 

Grading

A grading matrix will follow, based on the following allocations. I will fill it out twice during the semester:

25% class participation .

25% sketchbook – weekly entry related to reading.

30% project presented to class.

20% exam.

 

Course Structure and Rules

To augment weekly lectures, there will be activities, videos, and discussion to reinforce concepts. As with Arch130, I feel that the more active class will be more fun, and better tailored to your interests. I look forward to your input.

 

Late Work and Exam ‐ Be prepared to hand in work on time and to take the exam as scheduled. Late work may be graded down.

 

Plagiarism is not accepted. Please see me if you have any questions about this.

 

Please arrive on time. If you are sick or unavoidably late, please send me an email – I will check it each day prior to class.

 

 

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