4.665 | Spring 2002 | Graduate

Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate

Course Description

This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. …
This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their “present.”
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A photo of an escalator with green walls.
Stairs in Memory, photograph by Severin Koller, 2005. (Image courtesy of openphoto.net.)