Histories and Theories of Architecture 3: 1943-Present
This course examines architectural history and theory from 1943 to the present through built projects, drawings, and theoretical texts. The course examines architecture in relation to the historical forces at work after World War II, culminating by discussing the state of the discipline in the 21st century. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: Late-Modernism, Monumentality, Regionalism, Brutalism, Pop, Postmodernism, Neorationalism, Autonomy, Semiotics, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Virtuality, Pragmatism/Post-Criticality, as well as recent debates on Globalization, Post-Humanism, and Environmentalism.
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Lectures include:
2. Postwar Anxieties: Architecture after the Atomic Bomb
3. Functionalism Under the Gum
4. The Re-emergence of CIAM: Postwar Planning and Reconstruction
5. Situated Modernisms: Team X out of CIAM
6. Regionalism and Beton Brut around Late Le Corbusier
7. Architecture and Identity in Latin America
8. Postwar Architecture in the USA
9. Postwar Formalism around Louis Kahn and Philip Johnson
10. From Grid to Network: Architecture, Cybernetics, and Systems Theory
11. Anti-Architecture: Pop and Techno-Culture in Postwar Britain
12. Post-Geographic Fantasies: Megastructures and Other Radical Urbanisms
13. Post-Modern Paradigms: School of Thought and Modes of Criticism
20. Deconstructivist Architecture
21. Disjunction: Program, Event, and Transgression around Bernard Tschumi
22. Toward a New Urbanism
23. The Virtural Turn
24. The Post-Critical Turn: Architecture After 'The End of Theory'
25. Neopragmatism around Rem Koolhaas
26. Parametricism: The Politics of Relations
27. Surface Politics: The Atectonic and the Return of Ornament
28. The Object Turn: Speculative Realism, Post-Conceptuality, and Affect