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| Semester | spring semester 2017 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Kenny R. Cupers (kenny.cupers@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course offers a historical survey of architecture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beyond discussing canonical works of modernism, the course examines more broadly historical intersections of architecture, modernity, and globalization. It traces the different ways in which designers, inhabitants, and those in power have defined the future and what it means to be modern, and how architecture has actually given form to the spaces of everyday life. The course contextualizes spatial and formal analysis by examining how larger social, cultural, political, and economic conditions have propelled architecture as a discipline and a profession. By looking at how new kinds of building and new ways of thinking emerge, transform and proliferate, we complicate oppositions between modern versus traditional, authored versus vernacular, and western versus non-western architecture. Despite our initial emphasis on the development of modernism in Europe, we will substantively engage with the problematic of the global. Our mission is to problematize the relationship between architecture and cultural identity, and to explore how over the course of the century architecture has travelled – whether as a result of cultural or economic power, the spread of ideas, the availability of materials, the development of a new technology, or simply by people moving around. Rather than casting the non-West as derivative of a single, original modernity in the West, this course helps students to recognize modernity as fundamentally transient and thus constantly reconfigured as it shapes specific places and societies. |
| Learning objectives | Placing the design of buildings, cities, and landscapes in a historical perspective, this course allows students to develop a deep understanding of architecture in a global context. The course trains students to actively use fundamental architectural concepts such as form, style, type, function, and program, and develops critical skills to discuss the role of architecture in society. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Epochenmodul Moderne und Gegenwart (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Kunstgeschichte und Interdisziplinarität (Master's degree subject: Art History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Moderne / Gegenwart (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History) Modul Profil: Bildtheorie und Bildgeschichte (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul Werkorientierung (Master's degree subject: Art History (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | A written exam at the end of the course (31 May) |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften |