HAA 17v

Introduction to Modern Architectures
Patricio del Real
Tuesday/Thursday 1:30-2:45pm
This undergraduate survey course traces developments in architecture from the late nineteenth-century to the twentieth and beyond. We will focus on the consolidation of modernism as a global phenomenon in the 20th Century, engaging projects and architects who had a direct hand in its shaping and those who opposed it. We will look at key works of architecture and urban planning as laboratories of modernity fraught with tensions between tradition and innovation, form and function, art and technology, creative genius and teamwork, nationalism and internationalism. As modern architecture developed throughout the world, architects, planners and designers refashioned the built environment to serve the needs of growing populations, emerging nations, political ideologies, international markets and industrial modernization. The course will present how architects aimed to fulfill the promises of industrial modernity and need to be 'modern.' We will focus on case studies in the Americas and the Europes that launched global debates and international actors. The course highlights a simultaneous modernity and a dynamic international architecture culture that prepared the grounds for contemporary globalization.