Modern American Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Beyond

Short Course: Modernist art and architecture in Europe and the USA

Modernism reshaped tastes and exerts an enduring influence on global culture. This short course follows modernist art and architecture in Europe and the USA from its origins in the late 19th century to its flourishing in the first half of the 20th century.

This lecture looks at the development of a more functional aesthetic in residential architecture in the United States in the early 20^th Century and the early pioneers of the movement, such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Ray and Charles Eames and Ludwig Mies, and examples of their significant contribution to modernism.