HU 3900 c04

C2010

RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS

Richardsonian Romanesque as a take-off point for modernism Louis Sullivan on architecture and democracy The Craftsman Magazine and modernist currents Prefabrication in the origins of modern architecture The early stages of social/public housing as a goal of modernism F L Wrights built and unbuilt non-single-house projects before 1920 The department store as modern architecture, 1890-1940 Expressionism as a popular style in the 1920s and 30s Factory architecture as a take-off point for modernism Dada in European modern architecture The moving vehicle as inspiration for modernist architecture The Art Deco skyscraper as modern architecture Le Corbusiers search for symbolism in modern architecture Mies van der Rohe: Glass as modernist material Women in the formation of modernism America as an influence on European modernism Alvar Aalto and organic modernism 1930-1950 The Higgins Armory complex as modern architecture Modern architecture and design under fascism The Walter Gropius house in Lincoln, MA Coney Island Hot Dogs and modernisms in 1930s-40s commercial building Buckminster Fullers influence on modernism Frank Lloyd Wright and/or/versus the International Style Wallace Harrison: from WPI to the Rockefellers to the UN Building to Lincoln Center Modernism comes to the American university after WWII Modernism and postwar American public housing Baker House dormitories at MIT The T&G and the Denholm Building: modernism comes (sort of) to Worcester Common The Worcester EcoTarium and Edward Durrell Stones classical modernism Modernist subdivisions of the 1950s Mies van der Rohes post-WWII single-room buildings, tiny and humongous The drive-in restaurant (or hotel or rest stop) and modernism John Johansen, architect of Clarks Goddard Library Kevin Roche, architect of Worcesters tallest modernist skyscraper Pop Arts relation to architecture in the 1950s and 60s 1960s youth revolution culture and modernism The Worcester Galleria: modern architecture and the fate of the American downtown The controversial construction of Bostons John Hancock Building John Hedjuks modernism as storytelling The World Trade Center as International Style superblock modernism