# Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate

Stairs in Memory, photograph by Severin Koller, 2005. (Image courtesy of openphoto.net.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Arindam Dutta

### MIT Course Number

4.665

### As Taught In

Spring 2002

### Level

Graduate

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Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Selected lecture notes

## Course Description

This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their "present."

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