Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 43)
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Availability: Available in even years only.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr Philip Goad.
Prerequisite: 702-214 Modern Architecture B or approved equivalent.
Contact: Up to six hours of lectures, tutorials and practical work a week for a period equivalent to one semester.
Timetable: Second Semester
Objectives:
On completion of this program students should be able to demonstrate that they have gained an understanding of the social, aesthetic and theoretical dilemmas faced by architects worldwide in the fifteen years after the end of World War II, be familiar with the various critiques during the 1950s of pre-war International Modernism, and be familiar with representative examples, figures, and theoretical texts of the period.
Content:
The formative aspects of post World War II architectural design and architectural theory. The social, theoretical and aesthetic aspects of practice in the Bay Region of California, Los Angeles, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Mexico and South America, Holland, Japan and Australia during the 1950s are examined. Concepts of monumentality and regionalism, the emerging critiques of modernism, Brutalism, the writings of Team 10, issues of ornament and self-expression, conflicting attitudes toward the notion of history, reformist approaches to urbanism and mass housing, and the influence of architectural journals during the 1950s are investigated.
Assessment:
Projects, seminar paper and exercises to the equivalent of not more than 7,500 words. Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available within the first two weeks of semester.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 43)
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