Courses Architectural History/Theory :: AHST 632
AHST 632
Other Modernisms: The Avant-Garde in The Tropics
Instructor: R. Gonzalez
3 Credits [E]
This seminar is an introduction to the field of Latin American modern architecture and will introduce students to projects that range from newly constructed cities like Brasilia to avant-garde experimental projects like Mathias Georitz’s “El Eco”in Mexico City. Focusing on various themes (nationalism, internationalism, tropicalism, utopianism, etc.), the seminar introduces key terms and examples in the built environment. Latin American modern architecture presents alternative examples-“other modernisms”-to the mainstream modern projects of the United States and Europe. The notion of the “avant-garde in the tropics” suggests a critique of how “the tropics” has often been treated as a synechdoche, as a representation of all of Latin America. A critical reconsideration of “the tropics” will occur as we study modern Latin American architecture’s specific thematic currents.
- AHST 101 Ancient to Modern - Survey
- AHST 101, 110 History of Architecture I - Survey
- AHST 111 Introduction to Architecture
- AHST 230 Introduction to Architecture for Non-majors
- AHST 310 History of Architecture: Ancient-Medieval Architecture
- AHST 311 History of Architecture: Renaissance-Baroque Architecture
- AHST 312 History of Architecture: 19th-Century
- AHST 322 Modernity
- AHST 322 Modernism
- AHST 330 Islamic Architecture
- AHST 340 Frank Lloyd Wright & His Contemporaries
- AHST 341 American Urbanism
- AHST 410 Issues in Contemporary Architecture
- AHST 411 Theorizing the Real in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 412 Theory and Anti-theory in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 420 Precedents & Case Studies Practicum
- AHST 420 (421, 422) Precedents and Case Studies
- AHST 440 Philosophy of Architecture
- AHST 450 Northern Romanticism in Art and Architecture
- AHST 453 Survey of Russian Art
- AHST 463 Sexual Subjectivity and Space
- AHST 620 Representing Culture and Ethnicity in the Public Sphere
- AHST 631 The House as the American Dream
- AHST 632 Other Modernisms: The Avant-Garde in The Tropics
- AHST 640 Rethinking Anthropomorphism: Body Maps + Architectural Spaces
- AHST 651 Regional Modernism: The New Orleans Archives
- AHST 672 Urban Art and Public Space
- AHST 691 Latin American Cities
