ARTHI3402-01: History of Modern Design [Arts and Crafts to Postmodernism]
Monday/Wednesday, 2:30-3:50pm

Course description: This course will survey the history of design from the mid-19^th century to the present.  The course readings and lectures will address fiber arts, ceramics, furniture, metalwork, installation, graphic design, and architecture from the period.  We will explore the different historical events, artistic media and philosophical theories that inform the work presented in the class, as well as relating how these “design” objects are inextricably connected to the “fine arts” of the period from which they come.

• Fall 2008 syllabus
• Design History "reserve" readings
• NEW! Final exam (December 10th) review sheet!
• Art History links
  
  Design in the news:
• NEW! I.M. Pei Museum of Islamic Art opens in Qatar
          [The New York Times revisits the long, illustrious career of architect I.M. Pei]
• NEW! New biography of Le Corbusier sheds light on an extremely private icon of design history
• United Nations shuts down for a massive renovation
• The Guardian's Rachel Cook reinvestigates the "Brutalist" architecture of England's public housing projects
• New York Times takes in the wealth of turn-of-the-century architecture in Buffalo
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Marden House given a thoughtful makeover
• Today's Scandanavian design: a "walking" sustainable house?
• Zaha Hadid's Chanel Pavilion opens in New York's Central Park at an inopportune moment in recent history
• Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture, 1925-1940 opens at Museum of the City of New York
• Two new Tiffany exhibitions open at the Nassau County Museum of Art
• Historic Modernist building at 2 Columbus Circle in NYC reconfigured as Museum of Art and Design
•         [The reworking of 2 Columbus Circle leads New York Times architecture critic to propose a to-demolish list]
• New York Times' online T Magazine releases its fall design issue
• Working with new ideas about architectural "recycling" in Cleveland
• Illustrator Jean de Brunhoff's Babar illustrations exhibited at the Morgan Library
• Paul Rudolph's misunderstood Modernist masterpiece honored with restoration at Yale
• Co-founder of Marimekko dies at age 90
• Cooper-Hewitt Museum exhibits the art of 19th-century interior design
• When architecture, gardening, and parties collide in the PS1 courtyard
• Read The Guardian's ongoing series of "The Classics of Everyday Design" columns
• Frank Gehry's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion...while it lasts!
• Take a "tour" of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia 125 years after it was first begun
• The New Yorker sounds off on "Good Gehry/Bad Gehry"
• Read about and "tour" Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Design building
• Read about and "tour" Frank Gehry's Tech Square at MIT

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