Modernism

Last Updated: 4/20/02

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Unit Outline for Modernism

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Lectures:

Politics of Modernism

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Assignments:

Is your house "modern"? Is it designed to make you live better, or is it formalistic, senselessly ornamented, and illogical. Explain in 250 or so words. [Due 4/22]

See the unit outline for in-class work.

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Readings:

Sant'Elia - Manifesto of Futurist Architecture

Franklin D. Roosevelt's "First Inaugural Address"

Hitler's Speach

Modernism Hitler Qs

Links:

INVENTING MODERN: AND CREATING AN UNEXPECTED FUTURE July 23, 2000 by John H. Lienhard

Sant'Elia - Manifesto of Futurist Architecture (with sketches)