ARCH 417

Credit: 3 hours.

This course surveys the comparative history of world architecture and urbanism from c1900 to the present, including Modernist, postmodernist and contemporary architectures. Themes include the rise of new typologies, materials and techniques; the centrality of utopian thought, both built and imagined; architecture’s role in forging emerging national and postcolonial identities; architecture as visual communication; the rise of spectacle and the privatization of public space; adaptive reuse and emerging discourses of sustainability.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: ARCH 210 or ARTH 112, or consent of instructor.