Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

ARCH 670 - TAUTNESS AND PARTICULATES

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Department: Architecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TAUTNESS AND PARTICULATES ***** An examination of the textual background of one of the most influential sources of modern design in the 20th century, the Bauhaus. Writings of three directors will be examined: Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe, and others. Models for an exhibition on the work of a bauhausler who emigrated to Israel in the mid 1930s and applied the political, technical and formal lessons of his school in the production of several hundred projects.