Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture: Inventing the "Isms": from "Modernism" to "Postmodernism," 1945-1980.

"Modernism" and "postmodernism" emerged as rival ideas in architecture and culture between 1945 and 1980. What Auden named "the age of anxiety" was obsessed with the felt loss of the avant-guard movements of the interwar period, and the need to develop - in Britain, Italy, France, Japan, Brazil and others - a postwar identity through naming, and branding, architectural approaches, forms, and political stances. Through case studies of architectural projects, theoretical texts and the cultural contexts of these movements, we discover the historical, geographical and critical complexity to the usual narratives of "Modernism to Postmodernism."