11216 Themes in Architectural History

6cp
Undergraduate

Each year this subject explores a range of themes and issues from the period 1600 to 1945, such as Baroque and Rococo architecture and its theoretical underpinnings; romanticism and revivalism in European architecture during the 18th and 19th centuries; changing ideas on the nature of beauty in art and architecture (the sublime and the beautiful, and the picturesque); the Beaux-Arts tradition in France; freestyle architecture in England and the emergence of the arts and crafts movement; new technologies and their application to architecture; early modern architecture in Europe – Art Nouveaux architecture in Belgium and France, Modernismo in Spain, and Sezessionstil in Austria; definitions of modernism, themes and theories examined through case studies – the Avant Garde, Utopianism, the idea of Zeitgeist, Expressionism and Constructivism, the influence of the Bauhaus, Futurism, de Stijl, the effects of industrialisation, and urbanisation, urbanity and urban experience.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus

Fee information

2006 contribution for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students: $872.38
2006 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,310.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
Note: The above fees are applicable in 2006 for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported and domestic fee-paying undergraduate students only. Pre-2005 Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students webpage.
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