Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

ARTS 277   Modern Architecture 1880-1970
Credits1
RestrictionsInstr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices
RecommendedExperience of ARTS 105 is valuable but not necessary

Studies the emergence of a self-consciously modern architecture in European and the United States at the turn of the 20th Century, follows its maturation in the interwar period, and explores its international proliferation following World War II. Students become familiar with many key buildings and architects as well as the theory associated with them.