Course Description:  The beginnings of modern architecture can be traced back over 150 years. This eight-session course covers the extraordinary buildings that helped move modern architecture forward. We will follow the evolution of modern architecture in a chronological order. Many great designs have been done during its life span. This course will examine the greatest of the great buildings. The course will follow modern architecture from its birth through its many styles until the present. Designs by many notable architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, Oscar Niemeyer, Paul Rudolph, Robert Venturi, Marcel Breuer, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, and many other great modern architects will be discussed and shown. Robert Cassway is an award-winning architect who taught at the University of Michigan and Temple University. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He was in private practice for over 50 years in Philadelphia. He has designed projects throughout the United States, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Great Britain. He currently also teaches at Ringling School of Art, Life-Long Learning Institute. He has won over two dozen, local, state, and national design awards. His work has been published national and internationally.

Location:  Pavilion

Dates/Times: Wednesday, 11AM, January 7 - March 4 (no class February 25).

Instructor: Robert Cassway

Robert Cassway is an award-winning architect who taught at the University of Michigan and Temple University. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He was in private practice for over 50 years in Philadelphia. He has designed projects throughout the United States, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Great Britain. He currently also teaches at Ringling School of Art, Life-Long Learning Institute. He has won over two dozen, local, state, and national design awards. His work has been published national and internationally.