Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 4.665 (Spring 2002) 
• Course Title:
• Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Architecture 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Arindam Dutta 
• Course Introduction:
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  4.665 Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2002

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete list of readings from the class, and a series of lecture notes which list all the images and precedents discussed in the class.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their "present."

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.