Revised 08/2024

ARC 201 - History of Modern Architecture (3 CR.)

Course Description

Survey architecture from 19th century to present, with emphasis on philosophy of design, form, and structure. Lecture 3 hours per week.

General Course Purpose

To acquaint the students with the relationship between culture and Architecture and familiarize them with the great buildings of the modern world.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

First and second year students.

Course Objectives

This survey will enable the student to:

• Appraise and identify the effects of culture, technology and place on the Architecture of the modern world
• Identify the organizing concepts in form, space and structure of the great buildings of the 19th century
• Identify the organizing concepts in form, space and structure of the great buildings of Early Modernism
• Identify the organizing concepts in form, space and structure of the great buildings of Mid-20th Century Modernism
• Identify the organizing concepts in form, space and structure of the great buildings of the Post Modern period
• Identify the organizing concept in form, space and structure of the great buildings of Contemporary Architecture

Major Topics to Be Included

The Modern World

• Introduction: Architecture at the intersection of culture, technology and place
• 19th Century Technology and Cultural Change
• Early Modernism
• Mid 20th Century Modernism
• Post Modern Architecture
• Contemporary Architecture and our built environment