20th Century Architecture
Description: This course is not a survey of all architecture
produced in the twentieth century around the world, rather it
is an introduction to the primary movements, figures, and debates
which were at the heart of the diverse strands most commonly
referred to as "modernism." In recent decades the
notion of a unified modern movement in architecture has increasingly
been challenged, and modernism itself has come to be seen as
a multivalent, even contradictory category in architecture.
Something of that complexity will be reflected in the course
lectures which will frequently seek to portray a particular
figure, movement or ideology in relief against other alternatives
available in a given time or place that proved a crucial center
of debate over progressive architecture. The course Web site
contains approximately 200 images selected from the class syllabus
covering the span of twentieth-century Architecture.
Grants and Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Contributing Faculty or Academic Program: Professor Barry
Bergdoll
Staff: Robert Carlucci, Jeremy Stynes
Media: HTML and Database
URL: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/arch20
Access: Columbia University, password protected
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