The objective of the course is to introduce students with modalities of ideas, theories and practices within the broader socio-historical, philosophical, artistic contexts that have generated the emergence and development of modern architecture, art and culture during the 20th century.

The outcome of the course is students' ability for an in-depth understanding of causal and consequential relationships in the development of modern architecture, art and culture, observed in the context of social, political, economic, and general cultural context of 20th century. The course will enable students to observe the built environment, artistic and cultural milieu of epoch in their totality, and to formulate their own critical and analytical observations, attitudes and knowledge about architecture, art and culture of the 20th century.

The course deals with the period of modern and postmodern architecture, art and culture of 20th century; modern and postmodern urbanism and phenomenon of megalopolis; practices that emerge on the basis of modernism, as an evolutionary or critical model; tracks the mutual influences between theories and practices in architecture, art and culture and the wider complex of ideas and disciplinary orientations that arise during the 20th century in philosophy, sociology, economics, politics, culture theory, etc.

Lectures, discussion, presentation, visits to museums, galleries and exhibitions