Teaching Portfolio

Contemporary Architecture & the Modern World

FALL 1998 & 1999,  Samia Rab, Ph.D.

Tue., 8/24INTRODUCTION
LECTURE 1 Globalization, World Cities, Megastructures
Tue., 8/31SEMINAR 1 Regionalism & Contextualism
LECTURE 2 Museums & Cultural Centers
Tue., 9/7SEMINAR 2 Architecture & Ideology in the late 20th century
LECTURE 3 Hotels & Shopping Centers
Tue., 9/14SEMINAR 3 Architecture in the Age of Consumption
LECTURE 4 Classicism, Post-Modernism, Deconstruction
Tue., 9/21SEMINAR 4 Late Twentieth Century Thought & Criticism
LECTURE 5 “Populist” Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition
Tue., 9/28SEMINAR 5 Contemporary Architectural Criticism
LECTURE 6 The City of the Future – Housing
Tue., 10/5SEMINAR 6 Technology & Neo-Futurism
LECTURE 7 Neo-classical & Visionary Architecture of the 18th c.
Tue., 10/12SEMINAR 7 The Enlightenment & Neo-Classicism
LECTURE 8 The Romantic Movement in Architecture of the 19th c.
Tue., 10/19SEMINAR 8 From the “Arts & Crafts” to the “Art-Nouveau”
LECTURE 9 Organic Architecture & the Chicago School
Tue., 10/26SEMINAR 9 Reactions to the Industrial Age (Pugin to Habermas)
LECTURE 10 Modern Movement & the International Style
Tue., 11/2SEMINAR 10 Rationalization of Technique & Material
LECTURE 11 Architecture & the City
Tue., 11/9SEMINAR 11 The emergence of modern Town Planning
NO CLASS DUE TO VETERAN'S DAY
Tue., 11/16LECTURE 12a Westernization of the Colonial World
LECTURE 12b Modern Japan Overview
Tue., 11/23TAKE-HOME EXAM ASSIGNED (Due: 11/24/99, 9:00 AM)
NO CLASS DUE TO THANKSGIVING DAY
Tue., 11/30SEMINAR 12 Historicism, Nationalism, Functionalism & Regionalism LECTURE 13 New Concepts of Space
Tue., 12/7SEMINAR 13 Modern & Post-modern architecture
CONCLUDING SESSION Modernity & Postmodernism