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 702-317 Crisis & Complexity: 1950s Architecture

Availability

Will not be offered in 1999. Will next be offered in 2000.

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Philip Goad

Prerequisites

702-232 Modern Architecture B or approved equivalent.

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

Up to 3 hours of lectures, tutorials and practical work a week

Subject Description

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 5000 words.



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