This course will be concerned only marginally with such vital issues of the late twentieth century as urban planning and mass housing. Philosophical constructs of the period that impinge only indirectly on the making of architecture will, likewise, command little attention. Instead, a handful of buildings that have focused the concerns and energies of those architects in whom leadership might be thought to be vested will be described and fully analyzed, for it is these buildings that have determined the patterns of change of late twentieth century architecture and have defined its form and nature. A course developed collaboratively and taught digitally that spans one thousand years of architecture. The Pre-Columbian artistic traditions of the central Andean region.
Graduate students are welcome.
Classes will combine lecture and discussion. Elizabeth Hutchinson Renaissance to modern art. A brief examination of the techniques of visual analysis, followed by a chronological survey of the major period styles of Western European art. Emphasis on the introduction of form and content in the works studied and on the correlation of the visual arts with their cultural environments. Seminars will be supplemented by viewing sessions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.