Spring 2024 Architecture UN3117 section 001

MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD

MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE W

Call Number 00520
Day & Time
Location
TR 4:10pm-5:25pm
504 Diana Center
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
Type LECTURE
Course Description

Prerequisites: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 at the discretion of the instructor. 

Modern Architecture in the World is an introduction to different arenas in which architecture’s modern condition has been disputed in the last two centuries across different geographies. The course will address significant transformations in the built environment as well as the forms of practice, epistemic frameworks, and ideologies that led them. It will also attend to the forms of labor and economies that engendered new structures and organizations of space, the material resources and industries mobilized in their construction, the identities and forms of power they represented and imposed, the manifold embodiments that they hosted and shaped, the diverse socialites and politics they supported, and the ecologies they negotiated.

The course is organized around a number of key themes, with each class covering episodes spanning the whole period under consideration, up until the present. In this way, it will question the existence of a single line of development, a master narrative, or a teleological line of progress and will highlight instead the multiple, simultaneous, conflicting, and branching genealogies unfolding throughout the period. Students will gain knowledge of key buildings, artifacts, trends, and schools as they relate to those genealogies.

Each lecture will emphasize contending and shifting positions across geographies within the arenas explored, understanding hegemonic trends as well as dissenting positions. While different locations around the world will be highlighted in each class, the course positions modern architecture in the world by privileging an exploration of the cultural and material networks and hierarchies characteristic of the period—with attention to colonialism, coloniality, migration, resource extraction, and war, among others.

 

Web Site Vergil
Department Architecture @Barnard
Enrollment 61 students (60 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Status Full
Subject Architecture
Number UN3117
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20241ARCH3117W001