48-448 History of Sustainable Architecture

Units: 9.0 Department: Architecture Prerequisites: 48-240 Related URLs: http://www.arc.cmu.edu Using the period of the 1920s and 1930s as a case study, this course examines the connections between and the independent developments within the various arts. In contrast to the separate histories of architecture, music, art, and theater traditionally taught, this course takes a multi-disciplinary, thematic stance to the histories of the arts in Europe and America. A period embracing both avant garde and conservative movements, the 1920s-1930s were an era of intense, and often conflicting, debate. This course explores the competing aesthetic movements of the period, and the ways in which the arts shaped and were influenced by cultural, social, economic, and political forces. Team taught by Musicologist/ Cultural Historian Franco Sciannameo, and Architectural Historian Diane Shaw, the course will discuss themes such as: definitions of modernity, the persistence of traditionalism, differences between popular modernism and the avant garde, the effects of government sponsorship and intervention. In addition to understanding the variety of currents of the age, we will also be seeking to weave the threads into a synthesis of the period. Taught under the rubric of the Center for Arts in Society, the program will also feature guest speakers from the College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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