University of Miami School of Architecture

ARC 586 P, Spring 1999

Thursdays 10.50-12.05 am

Dr Richard John

Many of the greatest buildings constructed this century have been routinely ignored in conventional histories of architecture. Instead, historians have restricted their attention to those buildings which have self-consciously contributed to the linear progression of the Modern Movement. This seminar will aim to remedy these omissions by adopting a radically revisionist approach to the history of twentieth century architecture. It will focus on the alternatives to modernism which flourished in Europe and America up to mid-century and have been revived in recent decades, looking in particular at regional vernaculars and the classical tradition.