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Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States4.645
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2004English
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This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity…

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