HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Unit A (5 credits). Introductory section

Using a problem-based approach, the first part of the course will reconstruct the history of architecture and design from Modernism to contemporary trends. Starting from an analysis of the role of certain key figures in the European Art Nouveau movement involved in design of objects, architecture and the city, the central aspect of rationalist culture will be examined from WWI to the post-WWII period, analysing the spread of this design approach outside of Europe. Architecture and design in the 1960s and 1970s will be examined: including international style, radical avant-garde movements and the relationship with artistic experimentation towards post-modernism.

Unit B (5 credits)

Title: Exhibit design

Analysis of a number of key case studies of exhibition space design object display, from the London Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to Aichi (2005).