Architectural History 1B
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The course offers a chronological and thematic survey of a number of theoretical issues, technologies and social transformations that have intersected with, influenced or been interpreted by architecture and related practices concerned with the built environment after 1900. It tracks the complex interrelationships of design, theory, practice and representational ideologies as they developed in the twentieth and influenced the twenty-first century. Based on a number of case studies, it explores history as multiple histories developing concurrently or successively and architecture as an active agent in the built and imagined world.
Architecture and the landscapes, urban complexes and technologies that it engages are explored in the context of modernization and its critiques. The course introduces the various concepts of the period, such as ideology, and representational technologies, such as film and subsequent media developments, that have influenced architectural production, dissemination and consumption.