Academic Catalog

ARCH547 ARCH.& THE SOC.CONTEXT OF AEST.MOD.I

Course Code: 1200547
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Architecture
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

A theory of modernity. Critical social theory. Aesthetic modernity. The theory of the avant-grade. The status of architecture as an art in bourgeois society. Modernism and mass culture. Autonomy in architecture.