Summer 2024 Art History UN2427 section 001

Twentieth-Century Architecture

20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Call Number 10319
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:00pm-4:10pm
934 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Zeynep Celik Alexander
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course examines some of the key moments of architectural modernity in the twentieth century in an attempt to understand how architecture participated in the making of a new world order. It follows the lead of recent scholarship that has been undoing the assumption that modern twentieth-century architecture is a coherent enterprise that should be understood through avant-gardist movements. Instead, architectural modernity is presented in this course as a multivalent, and even contradictory, entity that has nonetheless had profound impact on modernity. Rather than attempting to be geographically comprehensive, it focuses on the interdependencies between the Global North and the South; instead of being strictly chronological, it is arranged around a constellation of themes that are explored through a handful of projects and texts. Reading primary sources from the period under examination is a crucial part of the course.

Web Site Vergil
Subterm 05/20-06/28 (A)
Department Summer Session (SUMM)
Enrollment 6 students (12 max) as of 9:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject Art History
Number UN2427
Section 001
Division Summer Session
Section key 20242AHIS2427W001