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Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present

Art: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rovine di uno degli alloggiamenti de' Soldati presso aduna delle…, 1748 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Arindam Dutta
Term: Fall 2004
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 37 other files · 3 web pages
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Lecture 1: Constructing the Past Exploring Forth and Digging Under

Lecture 2: Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Lecture 3: Landscape The Politics of Site

Lecture 4: Architecture and Industrialism, Part 1: The Ghosts of Technology

Lecture 5: Architecture as Ornament

Lecture 6: Architecture and Industrialism, Part 2: Masses, Classes and Regions

Lecture 7: Domesticity Gender in Space

Lecture 8: Making of the Modernist Avant-Garde and the Operative Historian

Lecture 9: Body Talk Body as Metaphor in Architecture

Lecture 10: Ludic Spaces The Architecture of Play

Lecture 11: Lines Across the City Architecture and the State

Lecture 12: Post-War Narratives of “Development”

Lecture 13: Final Lecture