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Course Info for AHIS - 286 - 01, Spring 2022
Class number: 2066 Title: Modrn Architectur:1900-Present Department: Fine Arts
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 25 Current enrollment: 24 Available seats: 1
Start date: Monday, January 31, 2022 End date: Monday, May 16, 2022 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM, AAC - 320 Instructor(s): Curran, Kathleen
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Arts Requirement
Course Description:
This course surveys broad developments in Western European and American architecture and urbanism from 1900 to the present. Topics include Viennese Modernism, the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, the International Style and the birth of Modernism, and reactions of the past 25 years. Close attention will be paid to such major figures as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry.