Course Outline:

1. Introduction to the idea of modernism in architecture: Hübsch, Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, Gaudet, and Choisy.

2. The Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte: Wagner, Olbrich, and Hoffmann; Moser.
The Darmstadt Kunstlerkolonie.
The case of Loos.

3. Reinforced concrete: Hennebique, Anatole de Baudot, Tony Garnier, Maillart, Freyssinet, and Perret.

4. Behrens, Van de Velde, and the early Gropius.
Muthesius and the Deutscher Werkbund.

5. Expressionism: Scheerbart, Taut, Poelzig, Mendelsohn.
The early Mies van der Rohe.

6. Futurism: Marinetti, Boccione, Sant'Elia.
Constructivism: Tatlin, Melnikov, Leonidov, Schusev.

7. The early Le Corbusier.

8. The Bauhaus at Weimar.

9. The Amsterdam School: Van't Hoff, Wijdeveld, De Klerk.
De Stijl: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Rietveld, Oud.

10. The Bauhaus at Dessau.
The later Deutscher Werkbund; the Siedlungen.

11. The closing of the Bauhaus; the later Mies van der Rohe.

12. The later Le Corbusier.

13. Scandinavian Empiricism: Saarinen, Asplund, Markelius, and Aalto.

14. Fascist, Soviet, and Nazi architecture.

P: So st or cons inst.