DR. MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
FINE4600/5600: The History of Modern Design: Industrial Revolution to the Present
Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:45pm, Tivoli 139H (Community Theater)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will survey the history of design from the 19^th century to the present.  The course readings and lectures will address, and in course discussions, examinations students will be expected to understand the graphic design, typography, architecture, “decorative arts,” product design, and new media from each period/major design movement in that time frame.  Since the course deals as much with history as with art, students will also learn and be expected to understand the different historical events, 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.

• Spring 2016: History of Modern Design syllabus

WRITING AND RESEARCH: Citation style guidelines
Search the collection and databases at Auraria Library

Design history and present in the news:

• MoMA exhibition explores the legacy of Modernism in Latin American architecture
• Gender fluidity spurs a quiet revolution in contemporary design
• An analysis of the "legacies" of the World's Fairs
• Sprawling Prada Foundation complex by Rem Koolhaas opens in Milan
• Read the NYTimes' interactive report on the Whitney's new, downtown home by Renzo Piano
• Sonia Delaunay retrospective opens at Tate Modern
• New York Times T Magazine's Design Issue on postmodern design history and Jackson Pollock's cookbook
• Vitra Museum's Making Africa explores contemporary design throughout the continent
• Check out the BBC's brief web history of the department store!
• Almost-forgotten Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky rediscovered with new exhibition in Zurich
• Museum of Arts and Design curator Lowery Stokes Sims retires after 40+ year career
• Legendary architect and designer Michael Graves dies age 80
          London's Guardian Newspaper includes Graves' Denver Public Library among his greatest buildings
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh retrospective opens in London
• Palm Springs becomes a mecca for American Modernist design
• MoMA exhibition explores design and music history
• Hard-to-love 1967 "Brutalist" building in Goshen, NY may be partly demolished
• Anarchist design group Strike! commandeers London ad spaces
• Google designers talk about Material Design and problem solving
          [Check out Google's own "introduction" to the Material Design initiative]
• "The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design" looks at corporate consolidation of design
• Design for Zaha Hadid's 2010 Olympic Stadium under fire
• MoMA photography survey celebrates groundbreaking Bauhaus and Constructivist artists
          [Go to MoMA's terrific, interactive exhibition website for Object: Photo]

Lecture links:

• Papanek Foundation dedicated to furthering his legacy of socially-responsible design
• American Modernist preservation stories: Take a tour of Eero Saarinen's TWA Building,
          and updates to the saga over the Rudolph demolition in Goshen, NY
• Architectural Review's short film on the last days of the Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens and
          some history, proposals, and articles about the recent debates and decisions concerning its current demolition
• Watch some of the Eames Office's more famous films: Powers of Ten, IBM at the Fair and Tops
• Watch a British interview with Le Corbusier (as "a young man of 71") and take a video tour of Villa Savoye
• Take a bicycle tour of the Torten Estate and book a room at Kleinring 5 B&B for a stay in Dessau!
• Virtually tour the Bauhaus at the Bauhaus Archive's website and explore (even apply to STUDY AT) the Dessau Bauhaus Lab