| Course Title: Issues in Art History: 'Modern Architecture: From Canon to Anticanon' |
| Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2026 |
| Description: This course surveys major developments in the history of modern architecture from 1850 to the present. We will look at how new materials and emerging technologies changed the underlying possibilities of architectural form, with deliberate focus on how political changes at a global scale -- from world war conflagrations to anticolonial independence movements -- shifted the social stakes of modern architecture. We will cover canonical projects of modern architecture and contextualize them within their larger sociopolitical landscape, leaving room to examine many fascinating buildings that lay outside dominant narratives of modernization. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lisa Haber-Thomson | lhaberthomson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ARTH0003 | ARTH-3: Modern and American area | Course counts towards the ARTH major in the Modern and American area |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 24 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 7 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |