ARC 553 - The Origins of Postmodernism

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Princeton University

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This course examines the intellectual origins of postmodernism in architecture through close studies of those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question, including Labatut, Rogers, Moore, Norberg-Schulz, Frampton, Rykwert, Alexander and others. The course also explores how these architects interpreted the work of thinkers such as Bergson, Maritain, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer, and Bachelard. It analyzes the causes for the momentous transformation of architectural discourse that took place in the 1960s and 1970s, including the birth of what we now

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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