Modern Architecture: MoMo to PoMo

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

120 Hours

One hundred points of an undergraduate degree

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This subject will consider the development of modern architecture during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include: the origins and development of modernism; changing ideas of housing, urbanism and society; functionalism and expression; materiality and spatial organisation; the changing role of the architect; key ideas of seminal thinkers; reactions to and interpretations of modernism; post-modernism and deconstruction. Particular attention will be paid to global migrations of modernist ideas including Asia/Pacific modernities and the postcolonial condition.

On completion of the subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate understanding of the sources and historical development of modern architecture;
• appreciate the global migration of modernist ideas in a postcolonial context;
• understand the key ideas of the seminal buildings and theories of modern architecture.

• Drawn and/or written tutorial exercises completed between weeks 2 and 11 (totalling 20%) to the total equivalent of 1000 words.
• A 2000-word essay due in week 9 (40%).
• A two-hour end-of-semester examination (40%).

Subject reader

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

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• Analysis of physical artifacts in their historical context.
• Understanding of history as a discipline and as a process.
• Understanding of the social, cultural and environmental context of architecture.
• Essay writing to undergraduate standard.
• Use and understanding of design terminology.