ARTH 733 - Glass,Technology,and the Spectacle in Contemporary Paris

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University of Pennsylvania

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Fierro. This research seminar will examine the monumental transparent buildings completed in the last two decades in Paris as part of an enormous urban revitalization known popularly as the Grands Projects. Integrated by former president Francois Mitterand, these glass buildings were endowed by ambitious symbolic aspirations: from signifying the asent of Mitterand's Socialist party, to commemorating the French Revolution, to representing the modernization of France to the world.The course will examine ten of these transparent buildings in depth, contextualizing contemporary issues within larger histories, critical concepts, and technological aspects immediate to glass contruction.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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