The objective of the subject is to familiarize students with the flow of ideas, theories and utopias, as well as with projects and executed works of architects, town planners and artists, formulated from the end of the 19th century to date, at home and abroad, through a cultural, historical, philosophical, socio-economic and political perspective. Focus is on understanding the entirety of the built-up space, through the continuity and discontinuity of a series of concepts of architecture, particularly the period from the Modern to date.

The course provides information about the ideas and forms of the modern and contemporary architecture of the Western world, in parallel with an overview of the development of architecture on the soil of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1990, and of Serbia from 1990 to the present. Employing the problem approach, the concepts, subjects, projects and works of architecture are located and synthesized within social, historical, philosophical, cultural and artistic contexts. Students are trained in using literature on the history and theory of contemporary architecture, reading specialized magazines and publications on contemporary architecture, analyzing video materials and records and following architectural exhibitions, journalism and publishing. They are trained to view the man-made environment in its entirety and adequately formulate their own critical and analytical observations, positions and knowledge through skills of persuasive, systematic and expressive analysis, through the written word

The subject researches architecture and town planning from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the Modern, the period of the Modern to WWII, the period following WWII, the Post-modern period and the period from the beginning of the 21st century to the present. Particular emphasis is on specific and important stages in the genesis of the Modern, the Post-modern and architecture and town planning at the turn of the century to date. The program addresses the city, as the context of architecture, as well as the city and architecture in the 21st century, with all the phenomena characterizing architecture today, in our country and in the world.

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