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Introduction to Modern Architecture
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Introduction to Modern Architecture

Overview of Modern Architectural History
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 2/2024
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Modern to Contemporary Architecture
  • Overview of Modern Architecture
  • Human experience
  • Technology in Architecture

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 2h 0m total length

  • Introduction5:05

    Explore the evolution from Art Nouveau to modern and contemporary architecture, highlighting Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bauhaus, international style, and Louis Kahn.

  • History of Architecture Modern 25:01

    Explore how Victor Horta introduced Art Nouveau to architecture through Hotel Tassel's wrought-iron bay window, flowing interiors, and holistic design that unites columns, furniture, and glass and iron surfaces.

  • History of Architecture Modern 313:16

    Le Corbusier's domino house demonstrates a modular reinforced concrete frame of two bays with pilots, slender columns, and horizontal slabs, enabling roof gardens, free plan, and free facade.

  • History of Architecture Modern 47:15

    Explore the Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a groundbreaking 1929 exposition pavilion that blends open and enclosed space with travertine, cruciform columns, and a water basin.

  • History of Architecture Modern 56:53

    Discover Usonian architecture through Frank Lloyd Wright's Willey House (1934), blending Prairie School elements with brickwork, low-pitched roofs, and seamless interior-exterior transitions.

  • History of Architecture Modern 610:58

    Explore the Bauhaus in Dessau, fusing art and craft under Walter Gropius with theory and manufacture through workshops and a technical school, inspired by de Stijl and Mondrian.

  • History of Architecture Modern 78:55

    Explore Philip Johnson's glass house, the birth of modern architecture, a prototype fusing the international style with transparency and minimal structure, patterned after Mies van der Rohe.

  • History of Architecture Modern 811:53

    Explore case study house one in Toluca Lake (1948) by J.R. Davidson, showing indoor–outdoor living, a breezeway, a slab-on-grade post‑and‑beam structure, and economy of war‑era materials.

  • History of Architecture Modern 94:43

    Discover thin shell concrete structures, from Joseph Monier's reinforced concrete with wire meshes and shotcrete to modern balloon techniques that create interior spaces free of columns.

  • History of Architecture Modern 106:25

    Examine how Oscar Niemeyer's Palacio do Planalto embodies art and architecture in Brasilia through a rectangular prism on pilotis, glass curtain walls, and a looping veranda that suggests levitation.

  • History of Architecture Modern 1119:08

    Examine Robert Venturi's postmodern approach, blending architectural history with commercial forms, and trace Beaux-Arts training's emphasis on rapid sketches, social and urban contexts, and the maxim 'less is a bore'.

  • History of Architecture Modern 1221:05

    Explore Louis Kahn's Salk Institute, two parallel laboratory blocks framing the Pacific Ocean water garden and a fountain, with brutalist concrete, teak, and skylights that channel light for biomedical research.

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites for taking this course.

Description

This course is an overview of the Modern to Contemporary history of architecture. It serves as a guideline for the courses on specific periods and styles of architecture.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated firsthand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in Modern Architecture History.

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