Course Descriptions

Term:

Atlantic Rim

Winter Quarter (W18)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
ART HIS (W18)145B  MOD ARCH 1945-2000DIMENDBERG, E.
Emphasis/Category: Atlantic Rim

This course will introduce principal developments in architecture and urbanism since the end of Second World War.  It will focus upon the vicissitudes and global diffusion of western modernism, the development of the metropolis and megalopolis, the emergence of postmodernist and critical regionalist traditions, the quest for sustainability, and the imbrication of the built environment in the political, social, and cultural changes accompanying the coldwar, the civil rights and anti-war movements, the counterculture, and decolonization.  Architects to be studied include Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Gunther Behnisch, Alvar Aalto, Alison and Peter Smithson, Archigram, Superstudio, Frei Otto, Alvaro Siza, Gunnar Asplund, Jorn Utzon, Frank Gehry, Carlo Scarpa, Buckminster Fuller, Clorindo Testa, Lina Bo Bardi, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier, Aldo Van Eyck, Peter Eisenman, Bruce Goff, Paul Rudolph, Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Charles Correa, Arthur Erickson, Paolo Solieri, Constant, Robert Moses, Jean Nouvel, James Stirling, Charles Moore, Kenzo Tange, Steven Holl, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Arata Isozaki, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, and Enrique Norton.  The course will include one guest lecture and an optional film screening and field trip. Assignment structure: Take-home midterm and final research paper.  Instructor: Edward Dimendberg.
Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI

Atlantic Rim

Winter Quarter (W18)

Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
GLBLCLT (W18)105  LANGUAGE ORIGINSSCHWEGLER, A.

Emphasis/Category: Hispanic, US Latino/a and Luso-Brazilian Cultures, Locating Europes and European Colonies, Pacific Rim, Inter-Area Studies, Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Atlantic Rim, Locating Africas, Global Middle East
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