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  • Lecture 1 - Intro./Overview
    1. No readings
  • Lecture 2 - Discussion: What Is Postwar-Modern?
    1. 2.1 Joedicke, J. “Introduction,” Architecture Since 1945 (1969), pp.1-28 (read the text parts carefully, esp. pp.26-28 and look at the images carefully)

    2. 2.2 Anxious Modernisms: Goldhagen & Legault, “Introduction: Critical Themes of Postwar Modernism”

    3. 2.3 Anxious Modernisms: Goldhagen, “Coda: Reconceptualizing Modernism”
  • Lecture 3 - War, Reconstruction & the Blank Slate
    1. 3.1 Diefendorf, J.M. “Introduction: New Perspectives on a Rebuilt Europe,” in Rebuilding Europe’s Bombed Cities (1990), pp.1-16.

    2. 3.2 Albrecht, D. “Intro,” in World War II and the American Dream, ed. Albrecht (1995), pp.xvi-xxvii.

    3. 3.3 Reed, Peter, “Enlisting Modernism,” in World War II and the American Dream, ed. Albrecht (1995) pp.2-37.
  • Lecture 4 - Mies, Gropius & Emigre Modern in USA 
  • Lecture 5 - Mies, S.O.M. & Corporate
    1. 5.1 Goldberger, “Triumph of Modernism,” in The Skyscraper (1982), pp.102-113.
  • Lecture 6 - Discussion: Values: Monumentality, Regionalism, Humanism
    1. 6.1 Anxious Modernisms: Scott, “Bernard Rudofsky” = Ch.9
  • Lecture 7 - Living in the USA
    1. 7.1 Blundell Jones, Case Studies 1945-1990: “Eames House, California” = Ch.1

    2. 7.2 Colomina, “Intro.” in Cold War Hot Houses (2004), pp. 10-21
  • Lecture 8 - Germany, Democracy & Transparency
    1. 8.1 Blundell Jones, Case Studies 1945-1990: “Egon Eiermann, German Pavilion, Brussels”

    2. 8.2 Rowe, “Transparency 1,” Perspecta (1963): 45-55.

    3. 8.3 Barnstone, The Transparent State: Architecture & Politics in Postwar Germany (2005), pp.1-9, 23-26, 50-60.
  • Lecture 9 - Cold War Modernisms & the Iron Curtain
    1. 9.1 Anxious Modernisms: Rogier, “Monumentality of Rhetoric” = Ch.7
  • Lecture 10 - Le Corbusier Late Works
  • Lecture 11 - Italy: Doppo Guerra
    1. 11.1 Anxious Modenrisms: Casciato, “Neorealism in Italian Architecture” = Ch.1

    2. 11.2 Blundell Jones, Case Studies 1945-1990: “Scarpa Castelvecchio” = Ch.9
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