This course examines the global histories of modernist architectures in the sociocultural, political, and economic contexts in which they were theorized, conceptualized, created, deployed, critiqued, coopted, adopted, and rejected. We will explore these histories through both hegemonic and counter hegemonic frameworks that scholars and critics have employed such as ‘alternative modernism’, and ‘global modernisms’. Throughout the course will examine architectural modernisms’ historical antecedents, the various manifestation and offshoots, as well as the philosophies and forms that developed in response.