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MIT OpenCourseWare
Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate
- Instructor
- Prof. Arindam Dutta
- Term
- Spring 2002
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 4.665 Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate, Spring 2002, Prof. Arindam Dutta — 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 Notes
18 files
- Lecture 2 · Megacities Download
- Lecture 4 · Theory Outtake 1 Download
- Lecture 5 · Bodies Download
- Lecture 6 · CTRL [Space] Download
- Lecture 8 · Architecture and Deconstruction Download
- Lecture 9 · The New York Five Download
- Lecture 11 · Architecture and Post - Modernism Download
- Lecture 12 · Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism Download
- Lecture 13 · Modernisms Elsewhere Download
- Lecture 17 · Phenomenology and Place Download
- Lecture 18 · Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn Download
- Lecture 20 · Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown Download
- Lecture 21 · Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory Download
- Lecture 22 · Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School Download
- Lecture 25 Download
- Lecture 26 · Traces on the City Download
- Lecture 27 · Technofantasy / Megastructure Download
- Lecture 28 · Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Megacities
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Lecture 3: Blobs, Curves and the Formless
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Lecture 4: Theory Outtake 1
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Lecture 5: Bodies
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Lecture 6: CTRL [Space]
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Lecture 7: Environmentalism
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Lecture 8: Architecture and Deconstruction
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Lecture 9: The New York Five
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Lecture 10: First Interim Exam
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Lecture 11: Architecture and Post-Modernism
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Lecture 12: Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism
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Lecture 13: Modernisms Elsewhere
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Lecture 14: Vernacularism
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Lecture 15: Critiques of Modernism
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Lecture 16: Theory Outtake 2
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Lecture 17: Phenomenology and Place
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Lecture 18: Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn
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Lecture 19: Second Interim Exam
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Lecture 20: Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown
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Lecture 21: Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory
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Lecture 22: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School
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Lecture 23: Theory Outtake 3
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Lecture 24: Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds
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Lecture 25: 1968
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Lecture 26: Traces on the City
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Lecture 27: Technofantasy / Megastructure
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Lecture 28: Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State
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Lecture 29: Final Paper (4500 words) Due
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Arindam Dutta, 4.665 Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate, Spring 2002.
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