Architecture
ARCH 2345: Contemporary Architecture
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Exposes students to a range of critical architectural practices and key theoretical frameworks from roughly 1990 through the present.
- Situates architectural production and discourse within a broader context of technological, cultural, and social processes, emphasizing the reciprocal exchange between architecture and its larger cultural and social context.
- Investigates the idea of the “contemporary” as both a temporal and conceptual notion, as well as the idea of a “critical” architecture and its relationship to both a historical avant-garde and “mainstream” architectural culture.
Exposes students to a range of critical architectural practices and key theoretical frameworks from roughly 1990 through the present. Show more.