ARTH 073. Global History of Architecture: 1800-Present

This survey will visit some of the major structures, events, and innovations that defined the global built environment in the last two centuries. Our course will especially center on the rise, transformation, and decline of the modern movement in architecture and urbanism. Between 1800 and the present, technological innovation, profound social, cultural, and economic change, and political upheaval continually shaped the built environment. We will explore architecture and urbanism in this broader context, taking a global view and an inclusive approach to what constitutes architecture itself. We will analyze this history not as a single, triumphant narrative, but as a story made up of multiple, sometimes-competing threads and roads not taken.

Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course
Arts and Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-core
Spring 2025. Goldstein.
Catalog chapter: Art History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history

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