ARCH2240: Modern Architecture and the Metropolis - Arts and Humanities Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Proposition: “That Architecture has nothing to do with the styles” 
Background Readings: 
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture. Translated from French by Frederick Etchells, London:  J. Rodker, 1931.  
Conrads, Ulrich. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-century Architecture. 1st English Language  Ed.] ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970. 

D E B A T E 2 (Week 10) 
Proposition: “That a great part of the present evil state of architecture is due to the client.” 
Background Readings: 
Ackerman, James S. "Transactions in Architectural Design." Critical Inquiry 1, no.2 (1974): 229-43.  Sigfried Giedion, ‘Le Corbusier and His Clients’ in Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of A  New Tradition, Harvard University Press, pp. 563-9. 

D E B A T E 3 (Week 11) 
Proposition: “That All Utopias Are Dystopias” 
Background Readings: 
Rowe. ‘Architecture of Utopia’, in Rowe, Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and other essays, MIT  Press, 1982, pp. 205-24. 
Alison, Jane et al (eds). Future city: experiment and utopia in architecture, New York: Thames &  Hudson, 2007. (not online)