ARCH 517

Credit: 3 hours.

This course is a survey of significant buildings, movements, and figures of modern and contemporary architecture, with a focus on contextualizing built environments as the embodiment of social, cultural, political, economic, and technological developments of their time. It outlines the development of modern, postmodern, and contemporary architectural thought. Key themes include industrialization and modernization, the development of the modern movement in twentieth-century architecture, non-Western modernism, the development of postmodernism as an architectural movement, regionalism, globalization and architecture, the sustainability movement, and the development of digital technology in architecture.

3 graduate hours. No professional credit.