Questions:
1. How and When did Modern Architecture begin?
• Date
• Architects
• Buildings
2. What were the extra-architectural reasons for, and influences on, the birth of Modern
Architecture?
• Theoretical
o Philosophical
• Technological
• Artistic
3. How did Modern Architecture evolve/develop?
4. What were the main architectural characteristics of Modern Architecture?
5. Who were the main architectural leaders of this movement?
6. What were the most important buildings of this movement?
8. What were the main achievements of this movement?
9. How did this movement either end, or continue after its main period of significance?
10. What is the general assessment of Modern Architecture?
• Good – bad, negative – positive, optimistic – pessimistic, beautiful – ugly
Order of Presentations of Historians:
1. Nikolaus Pevsner
2. Sigfried Giedion
3. Henry Russell Hitchcock
4. Hitchcock/Johnson
5. J.M. Richards
6. Bruno Zevi
7. Leonardo Benevolo
8. Reyner Banham
9. Peter Collins
10. Bill Risebero
11. William Curtis
12. Vincent Scully
13. Alan Colquhoun
14. Jean Louis Cohen
15. Malcolm Millais