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Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008 Winter/spring short-term seminars
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Short-term seminars at the Newberry in winter/spring 2008 Architecture and Philosophy Judith Genova, Philosophy, Colorado College Block 7: March 24 - April 16, 2008 |
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To study architecture (or philosophy) is to study a little bit of everything: cultural and social history, art, aesthetics, and technology, even the psyche. We are our buildings. Our built environments condition and facilitate our public lives, as well as our private ones. Yet we rarely examine our cities to discover how they came to be and more importantly where they are going. Thanks to the ACM program and the special collections at the Newberry Library, we shall turn Chicago, even the Newberry’s very own building, into our laboratory. |
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Dubbed Modernism’s temple, Chicago has more architectural wonders and urban history than any other city in America. From 1870-1970, it ruled as America’s first city of architecture. Why did the European masters come to Chicago and how did they influence the development of the city? Is Chicago a city by accident or have great city planners, like Daniel Burnham, guided its development? Alternately wandering the streets of Chicago examining the buildings and byways and the documents stacked away in the bowels of the Newberry, we shall come to know something of the building of America, the history of architecture, and the complexity of urban design. |
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