History of Modern Architecture

Major: Architecture and Town Planning
Code of subject: 6.191.00.O.104
Credits: 3.00
Department: Design and Architecture Fundamentals
Lecturer: Docent Frankiv R., Senior Lecturer Scherbakov I.
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: As a result of studying the discipline, the student must be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes: 1. Determine the difference between modern and historical architecture 2. To formulate the basic values ??of modernism as a basic concept of architecture of the twentieth century. 3. Understanding the impact of industrial forms of production on the category of value in architecture. 4. Understand the causes of the crisis of modernism and the prerequisites for the formation of postmodern aesthetics. 5. Identify styles of modern architecture that do not belong to classical modernism, but use the worldview of abstract art. 6. Identify the main directions and trends of world architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Required prior and related subjects: History of architecture, part 1 History of architecture, part 2
Summary of the subject: The course consists of three thematic and chronological blocks: - Formation of directions of modern architecture. (Prerequisites for the development of modern architecture. Historicism in the architecture of the XIX century. The impact of the industrial revolution on the development of architecture in the XIX century. International Industrial Exhibitions. London Exhibition in 1851. J. Paxton's Crystal Palace. Features development of American architecture in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chicago School of Architecture. Creativity of L. Sullivan. Search new form and the problem of ornament in architecture of the late nineteenth century. Art Nouveau style and its main trends. "Secession" in Austria and Belgium. Works by O. Wagner, J. Hoffman, W. Orth. Jugendstil in Germany. Art Nouveau in France. Works by Guimar, O. Perret. Creativity of A. Gaudi. German "Workbund" and itsinfluence on the formation of design and architecture. Activities and lessons of the Bauhaus school. Works by V. Gropius. New spatial concepts in art and architecture of the twentieth century. Dutch neoplasticism. De Style Group. The study of space - cubism. Research movement - futurism. WorksSantElia.) - Crystallization of modern architecture in the interwar period, its transformation and expansion after 1940. (Architecture and the Revolution in. Creative search for representatives of Soviet constructivism in the first post-revolutionary decade. Malevich's Suprematism. Creativity K. Melnikov. Architectural fantasies of J. Chernikhov Architecture and power: Stalin's "Empire", German "neoclassicism", architecture of the Mussolini period in Italy. Leaders of the Modern Movement and their influence on the development of modern architecture and design. Creativity of Le Corbusier. Organic Architecture FL Wright. "International style". Miss Van der Rohe, A. Aaalto, O. Niemeyer. Neo-Expressionism and symbolic architecture of J. Utzon, E. Saarinen. Structuralism L. Kahn. Japanese "metabolism": K. Tange, K. Kurakawa, Aisozaki.) - Continuations and changes in modern architecture in the late twentieth century. (Visual language of postmodernism. Works by R. Venturi, C. Moore, F. Johnson. Hi-tech. Center art. J. Pompidou in Paris. Creativity N. Foster. Deconstructivism, new plastic, or improvisation on a given topic. Works by F. Gerry, D. Libeskin, Z. Hadid. History and winners of the architectural prize named after Pritzker.)
Assessment methods and criteria: The student's knowledge is assessed on the basis of answers to test questions. As a rule, this is the answer to three questions and the results of a practical task. The practical task is to collect and analyze material on one of the provided topics.
Recommended books: Colqhoun A. Modern Architecture, Oxford: OUP, 2002 Jencks Ch. Yazyk arkhytektury postmodernyzma, - M.: Stroiyzdat, 1985 Ford E.-R. The Details of Modern Architecture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003 Frempton K. Sovremennaia arkhytektura. Krytycheskyi vzghliad na ystoryiu razvytyia, M.: Stroiyzdat, 1990 Panayotis T. The Historiography of Modern Architecture, Cambridge: Mit Press, 2001 Hydyon Z. Prostranstvo, vremia, arkhytektura, - M.: Stroiyzdat, 1984