An examination of key buildings and architects of Western Europe, North America, Australia, Japan and China from early modernism onwards is undertaken in this course. The selected buildings vary in scale from domestic to public, and represent an overview of key architects, collective movements and individual approaches from the mid twentieth century to the present. The selected cases are examined in terms of key ideas and problems, including: planning, cultural and intellectual contexts, formal tendencies, characters of spatial configuration, materials and responses to the physical context of a building site.