COURSE: Divergence in Design: From Modernism to Postmodern Architecture and Sustainability

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This episode explores the evolution of architectural thought from modernism to postmodernism and its implications for sustainability.

Welcome to the Gābl Media Continuing Education podcast feed! Each podcast is approved for continuing education credits. Divergence in Design: From Modernism to Postmodern Architecture and Sustainability AIA CES program ID: GMGG.004 Approved LUs: 0.5 LU|HSW Prerequisites: None Program level: Entry Advance learner preparation: None When “form follows function” stopped being enough, what replaced it, and how did that argument quietly set the stage for the way we talk about cities, meaning, and environmental performance now? This course follows the split in architectural thinking from early modernism and the international style into postmodernism and the first waves of green architecture, using the major voices and factions as a map of what the profession was trying to solve in each era. You move from Bauhaus influence and the authority of Gropius, Mies, and Le Corbusier into the critiques that reframed urban life and architectural meaning through Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi, then through the competing schools and groups that pushed the discipline in different directions as culture shifted and the profession diversified. Alongside that design debate, the course introduces early…

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Host: Gābl Media

Topics covered

• architecture
• modernism
• postmodernism
• sustainability
• urban design
• environmental performance

Keywords

• architecture
• modernism
• postmodernism
• sustainability
• urban design
• climate science
• environmental crisis
• Bauhaus
• living lightly

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Places: Arcosanti

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