Week 4 – Toward a New Objectivity: The Northern European Experience

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 Lecture slides

Week 4 – Toward a New Objectivity: The Northern European Experience  (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Lecture slides are based on the course textbook by Frampton, K. (1992). Modern architecture: A critical history (3rd ed.). London: Thames and Hudson.

Suggested Readings 

  1. Hilde Heynen, Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999), pp. 76–96 (“Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition”) 
  2. Gropius, W. (1965). The new architecture and the Bauhaus (pp. 19-50). Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press.

Optional Readings

  1. David Leatherbarrow, “Interpretation and Abstraction in the Architecture of Adolf Loos,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984–), vol. 40, no. 4 (Summer, 1987), pp. 2–9.

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings  here.

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses is the monday 25th Sep. You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 20% deduction per week.

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