Art History 743 - 20th Century Architecture

This graduate seminar surveys modernism's long engagement with the totally designed domestic interior from the totally designed domestic interior from the 19th century gesamtkunstwerk to the remarkable 20th century interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright and Eileen Grey to the electronic, media saturated environments of the 1960s anticipated by critic Reyner Banham and beyond. The theoretical writings of Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebrve, Tonino Griffero and others will inform discussions.

Open to Graduate students only. Papers' topics will consider interiors from multiple viewpoints and disciplinary standpoints, thus helping to answer important questions for today, such as how to preserve them. Students from all fields are welcome, especially architecture, landscape, preservation, art history and other disciplines of the humanities and sciences.