History of Architecture and Culture

History of Architecture and Culture - VI

UNIT I-CRITIQUING MODERNISM -9

TEAM X- Brutalism- projects of Smithsons and Aldo Van Eyck – writings of Jane Jacobs, Robert

Venturi, Aldo Rossi and Christopher Alexander.

UNIT II AFTER MODERNISM – I 10

Conditions of Post Modernity- various postmodern directions in architecture– canonization of Post

Modernism– works of Graves, Venturi, Moore- postmodern classicism- ideas and works of

urbanism: Soleri, Archigram and Metabolism- Neo Rationalism.

UNIT III AFTER MODERNISM – II 7

High Tech architecture: Works of Stirling, Rogers and Piano – Deconstructivist theory and

practice- Eisenmann, Hadid, Gehry, Libeskind, Tschumi

UNIT IV ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES AND IDEAS 7

Critical Regionalism- Ideas and works of Baker, Fathy, Ralph Erskine, Lucien Kroll, Ando, Bawa,

Barragan, Siza

UNIT V POST INDEPENDENT ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA 12

Architectural debates associated with nation formation– early modernist architecture- post

independence city planning: Chandigarh and Bhuvaneswar- influences on post independence

architects- Architecture of Kanvinde, Raje, Doshi, Correa, Nari Gandhi, Raj Rewal- PWD

architecture – new directions after 1960s- post- independent architecture of Chennai