Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Architecture's Multiple Modernities

Harvard GSD

In this course we examine how the multiple experiences of modernity give rise to different modes of architectural design and thinking from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty first. We understand modernity not as originating in a particular location, but rather as the result of complex entanglements that result in different experiences depending on location and context. These experiences stem from a negotiation with power that is in direct conversation with the design…