The Contemporary World: Globalization, Terror, and Post-Modernism, 1970-

1. Contemporary Architecture (p. 693-698)
Architecture > Form > Additive
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Contemporary developments in architecture include post-modernism and the design of unorthodox structures. Architects such as I.M. Pei, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid have designed buildings with innovations in materials, form, and function. If you had the training and resources to design and construct a building, what form would it take? Click on the link above to apply your ideas, using the 2D and 3D exercises to generate a rough design of your structure using additive forms. Be sure to determine your building’s function and relate your building’s design to that function.

2. Connections: The Contemporary World, 1970-Present (p. 671)
Connections > Timelines > The Contemporary World
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What are some recent trends that continue to shape our world today? How are the humanities relevant to our lives today? Click on the timeline link above and examine what is listed in each category. What themes and common threads are there within the humanities today? What other cultural developments of our time would you include on this timeline?