5 Sections
25 Lessons
4 Hours
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1. The World That Made It
5
1.1
Modernism: the whole period in one lesson
1.2
Geography, climate and the materials to hand
1.3
Power, religion and who paid for buildings
1.4
What daily life was actually like
1.5
What came immediately before
2. What They Built
5
2.1
The building types of Modernism
2.2
Sacred architecture
2.3
Civic, royal and public buildings
2.4
Housing and everyday building
2.5
The city in Modernism
3. How They Built It
5
3.1
The free plan, the curtain wall and the machine aesthetic
3.2
Materials and where they came from
3.3
Structure: how it actually stands up
3.4
Tools, labour and life on the building site
3.5
How long it took and what it cost
4. The Language
5
4.1
The elements and vocabulary of Modernism
4.2
Proportion, geometry and rule
4.3
Ornament and what it meant
4.4
Light, colour and surface
4.5
How to recognise Modernism in ten seconds
5. What Survived and What It Changed
5
5.1
The Bauhaus Dessau by Walter Gropius, read in detail
5.2
Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, read in detail
5.3
The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe, read in detail
5.4
Why Modernism gave way to what came next
5.5
What architects still steal from Modernism today
The Bauhaus and the Birth of Modernism
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