ART 273 - Modern Architecture and Beyond

1 unit(s)

(Same as URBS 273) European and American architecture and city building (1920 to the present); examination of the diffusion of modernism and its reinterpretation by corporate America and Soviet Russia. Discussion of subsequent critiques of modernism (postmodernism, deconstruction, new urbanism) and their limitations. Issues in contemporary architecture.

Prerequisite(s): ART 105 or ART 106, or ART 170, or permission of the instructor.

Not offered in 2017/18.

Two 75-minute periods.

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