Art 296h - Art History Seminar on Modern Architecture
Private Houses/Public Housing
Housing in America means different things to different people. "Falling Water" and Levittown are two of the more famous examples; Pruitt Igoe and Cabini Green, two of the most infamous. In this seminar we will explore the range of cultural, historical, and social meanings attached to the notion of home, focusing on private houses - such as the suburban ranch or the modernist glass box to the McMansions of the 1990s - and public housing - such as the 1930s garden apartments, superblock highrises of the 1950s and 1960s, to Section 8 and the New Urbanism mixed housing of today.