Art 288 Modern Architecture
Class Syllabus (PDF)
Every historical period thinks of itself as modern, but in the 20th century "modern" architecture refers to a specific set of forms and values that have held sway from the early 1900s. Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe are acknowledged modern masters who established modernism's principles and prototypes. Robert Venturi, Richard Meier, and Frank Gehry and other post modern architects challenged modernism’s hegemony. Other, less known, architects created significant buildings in an historic and stylistic context.
Whether we "like" modern architecture or not, we live in a constructed world created by modern architects. By the end of this course you should be able to define "modernism" and "postmodernism" in architecture and better understand the buildings that shape your environment.