Arch 421J - Building a Better World: Architecture and Social Reform in America

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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Architects, planners, and social reformers have addressed urban issues of poverty, crime, delinquency, labor unrest, and class and ethnic tensions through activist models of the public library and school, the YMCA, the playground, and the model home-or by a retreat from the city in the form of utopian settlements. This seminar examines the history of environmentalist thinking and social reform in the United States and to some extent, Europe, from the Enlightenment to World War II, including the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmstead, Ernest Flagg, and Frank Lloyd Wright and critics such as Jane Jacobs and Prince Charles. The class becomes familiar with reform architecture and its context and assesses the effectiveness of this strategy as a solution to social problems. Open to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. Fulfills history/theory requirement.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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