ART 240 - Global History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism I: Race, Capital, and Empire

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as URBS 240) Who builds architecture, where, and to whom do we attribute credit for its design and realization? This course studies design and construction from the Seven Years’ War—the first global military conflict—through the first half of the nineteenth century. From the scales of materials and construction assemblies to city plans, and from working-class cottages and enslaved people’s dwellings to estates and plantation-labor camps of the bourgeoisie, we consider architecture from the perspective of its production. Our focus is the architecture of the Atlantic World: the newly independent states in the Americas, extractive colonialism in Africa, and political regimes in Europe, old and new. Through the lens of technological innovations and economic developments, we consider how concepts of the value of labor and territorial possession contributed to the built environment. Jonah Rowen.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS