The Mannerist Condition

Harvard GSD

This discussion-based seminar will offer an unconventional and trans-temporal interpretation of mannerism: architectural works and theories on 16th-century Mannerism will be presented and discussed, and then linked to certain trends in modern and contemporary architecture.This course explores mannerism as a critical tool for understanding the architecture of our time. Architecture cannot exist without or outside of a tradition; therefore, architects are always engaged in a dialogue, a…