The second year program in Architectural Research provides students with a comprehensive survey of the history of architecture and urbanism. Students will continue to hone the specific cognitive skills required to address the field, deepening their knowledge of the local and global built domain while reading, writing, and researching architecture. The goal is to provide students with a basic knowledge and understanding of architecture and urban design in the period between circa 1851 and 1980. In addition, the course is designed to teach students how to critically analyze and evaluate built projects from a variety of perspectives, and how to communicate these ideas in spoken and written form.

The first part of the course deals with ways of looking at the history of land and society; people, time, place (methodological with material from the Mediterranean, Ireland and Limerick). It will include several Case Studies: Irish building land 1600-2000 (ownership, tenure, land reform, rural and urban populations), building the city; Limerick 1200-2000 (racial, social and religious segregation over time), and deal with the shape of the city: (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Industrial ideals of the city, with emphasis on land use in relation to buildings and spaces between buildings, building land in Ireland today; not about the law but about trends, patterns, densities. The second part of the course is a contemporary theoretical survey of key theoretical aspects of modern architecture that exposes students to the monuments of the modern movement. The course focuses on the body in modernism, e. g. the body in an emergent consumer environment and visual culture (Joseph PaxtonÆs Crystal Palace, the department stores, the arcades), as an agent of production and instrument of sensation (William Morris, Art Nouveau, the Secessionstil), in motion (Frank Lloyd Wright, the Werkbund, Futurism, de Stijl), in a culture of hygiene (Tony Garnier, Le CorbusierÆs urbanism, the Suburb), at home and in exhibition (the International Style, the Schindler House, the Eames House, the Farnsworth House, JohnsonÆs Glass House), and nomadic (Team X, Kurokawa, the SmithsonÆs House of the Future, Archigram).

By the end of the module students should be able to: * Identify the names, architects, plans, locations, and images of significant works of architecture from the modern period. * Develop cognitive skills. * Critically evaluate a work of architecture within its social, cultural, and political context. * Gain an appreciation for the political, cultural, and social forces that shape our thinking about architecture and the built environment. * Gain an understanding of the relationship between structural and technological development and societyÆs demands of the built environment. * Gain an understanding of societyÆs changing ideas of the built environment across time. * Formulate a coherent and reasoned thesis in a medium length paper. * Draw conclusions and make associations across time and space.

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Through lectures, discussion seminars, and writing the course will survey the history of modern architecture, close tracking the history of environmental, structural, and social systems of the modern period.