Architecture and Modernity

Undergraduate | 2026

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Area/Catalogue
ARCH 2013
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Course ID
205206
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course level
2
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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No
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Single course enrolment
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Course data is interim and subject to change

Course overview

This course will introduce students to the historical evolution of modernity and Modernism in theory and practice from the nineteenth-century to the 1960s. Students will develop knowledge in the evolution of modern consciousness and its realisation in architecture including the development of the 'International style'. Students will develop skills to analyse and communicate the relationship between modern art, architecture, and design; and representation and abstraction, politics, and emergent technologies of reproduction and construction.

Course learning outcomes

  • Evaluate the built environment (ideological, cultural, contextual, and spatio-temporal) and apply this knowledge in the development of intermediate discursive arguments
  • Apply intermediate knowledge and skills of structured, written arguments about architecture and design that draws on historical precedent
  • Develop knowledge of the effect(s) of the architect/designer/historian on how we understand modernity, and the process through which these effect(s) influence subsequent accounts of modernism and modernity
  • Develop an understanding of how architectural history is a continuation of a cycle, rather than a linear progression of historical events over an extended period of time
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the cultural and ideological practices of modernity and its commitment to materialist ideas of history and visions of possible future(s)

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

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