Contemporary Architecture

This course examines the theory and practice of twentieth-century architecture. Its aim is to build an interpretive framework that cultivates critical awareness and the capacity to question the built environment. The focus is on architectural culture's varied responses to the premises of prewar modernity and their development to the present day. These are organized around a set of cross-cutting themes: housing research, the relationship between technology and aesthetics, the autonomy of architecture as an art form, the roles of history and utopia, the public reception of architecture, the stratified growth of the European city, the environmental history of architecture, and the critical reappraisal of "global modernism." Beyond built works, the course addresses architecture as it has been described, imagined, celebrated, and contested. It also explores the web of relationships architecture has always maintained with neighboring and more distant disciplines.

First approach to the history of contemporary architecture.

• Quality education

In presence

80% Lectures
10% Seminars
10% Study trip (to be defined)

Written exam