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MIT OpenCourseWare
Analysis of Contemporary Architecture
- Instructor
- Mr. Dan Cheng-ta Chen
- Term
- Fall 2009
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 5 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 4.205 Analysis of Contemporary Architecture, Fall 2009, Mr. Dan Cheng-ta Chen — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: Louis Sullivan: Adler and Sullivan
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Lecture 3: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Lecture 4: Adolf Loos, Peter Behrens and the German Werkbund
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Lecture 5: De Stijl and Schrader Schroder house
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Lecture 6: Walter Gropius: Bauhaus and Harvard
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Lecture 7: Visit Gropius House, Lincoln, MA
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Lecture 8: Le Corbusier buildings and cities Documentary: La Tourette
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Lecture 9: Mies van der Rohe: Berlin and America, less is more Documentary: Mies
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Lecture 10: Philip Johnson and the International Style of 1932
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Lecture 11: Alvar Aalto
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Lecture 12: Louis Kahn
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Lecture 13: Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph
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Lecture 14: Case-study house program
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Lecture 15: Field trip to Yale, overnight stay with Sunday trip to Exeter Library
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Lecture 16: Urbanism CIAM and Team X
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Lecture 17: Aldo Van Eyck
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Lecture 18: James Stirling
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Lecture 19: Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa
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Lecture 20: Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier
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Lecture 21: Post Modernism: Less is a bore
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Lecture 22: Deconstructivist architecture
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Lecture 23: Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry Documentary: Sketches of Frank Gehry
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Lecture 24: Suburbia, sprawl, Congress for New Urbanism, Duany Plater-Zyberk
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Lecture 25: William McDonough, Green building practices
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Lecture 26: Final review exhibition
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