2025Year

Second Semester

Modern Architectural History

Lecture

Modern Architectural History

Z1100039 Modern Architectural History

OUCHIDA Shiro

2.0Credits

Thu.2Period

Shinjuku Remote

A) A high degree of specialized expertise　100%
B) The skills to use science and technology　0%
C) The ability to conduct research independently, knowledge pertaining to society and occupations, and sense of ethics required of engineers and researchers　0%
D) Creative skills in specific areas of specialization　0%

Students learn historical trends related to the design methods and spatial composition of modern architecture in Japan and abroad by reading important writings on the history of modern architecture in turn.
After learning the important architectural theories on modern architecture in Japan and abroad, students will consider their significance and reassess them in the present context.

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Discussion Debate／Presentation／Interactive classes using ICT

Students will read and summarize the texts in turn in class. A list of the selected texts is as follows. The range of reading assigned to each student and method of conducting the class will be decided when the students’ course registrations are completed.
1. The idea of a modern architecture in the 19th century / The search for new forms and the problem of ornament
2. Rationalism, the engineering tradition and reinforced concrete / Arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the U. S. A.
3. Responses to mechanization: the deutscher werkbund and futurism / The architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright
4. Cubism, De stijl and new conceptions of space / Le Corbusier’s quest for ideal form
5. Walter Gropius, German expressionism and the Bauhaus / Architecture and revolution in Russia
6. Skyscraper and suburb: the U. S. A. between the wars / The ideal community: alternatives to the industrial city
7. The international style, the individual talent and the myth of functionalism / The image and idea of Le Corbusier’s villa Savoye at Poissy
8. Nature and the machine: Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s / Totalitarian critiques of the modern movement
9. The spread of modern architecture to Britain and Scandinavia / International, national, regional: the diversity of a new tradition
10. Modern architecture in the U. S. A.: immigration and consolidation / Form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier
11. The Unité d’habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype / Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments
12. On monuments and monumentality: Louis I. Kahn / Architecture and anti-architecture in Britain
13. The process of absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan / Extension and critique in the 1960s
14. Modernity, tradition and identity in the developing world
15. Pluralism in the 1970s

Students will be graded based on evaluation of their presentations. An evaluation score of 60 and over will be required to get a credit.

The critique will be uploaded by KU-LMS.

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NAOHIKO HINO:『History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Japan』, Kodansha, 2021

12:00-13:00 on Thursdays in room 2672 of the Shinjuku campus

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Applicable

建築の設計・監理の経験がある教員が、実務経験を活かし、建築の歴史について講義する。

Architecture Program