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702-617 Crisis & Complexity | |
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Availability | Available in 2005 and alternate years thereafter. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Associate Professor Philip Goad |
Prerequisites | |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A one-hour lecture and two hours of tutorials per 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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