Can we achieve gender parity in architectural historiography? This course is intended to give students an insight into writing critical histories of architecture, challenging and expanding canons. Based on reading seminars and writing exercises, sessions will focus on questions of gender and parity in architecture while exploring specific case studies from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Few thinkers influenced the intellectual sphere of the late 19th Century as much as the English dilettanti writer, painter, teacher, art critic, social reformer, conservationist and architectural theoretician John Ruskin. Our seminar will analyse texts of Ruskin and we will discuss the potential relevance of his reform ideas for today’s building.

The course discusses the material encounter of modern architecture and photojournalism as both converged to transform Brasília, the new capital of Brazil designed by Costa and Niemeyer, into a global mass media event. The photographic material produced for magazines promoted images of a new imaginary nation and staged dissonances and microhistories of this massive urban-architectural endeavor.

This course will examine the relevance of geological thought and methodology for the understanding of the built environment.

As part of the ‘Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies’, the ‘Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies' seminar offers PhD students at the D-Arch an application-oriented introduction into the variety of methodologies and tools available to conduct research on the (built) environment at the urban and territorial scale.

Advanced PhD candidates of urban studies, urban and landscape design and urban sociology report about their experiences and insights in the concrete application of methods utilized for their research and scientific publications. Discussion of ongoing individual work, methodological questions, critical perspectives on urban and landscape design and city's relation to society.

As part of the ‘Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies’, the ‘Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies' seminar offers PhD students at the D-Arch an application-oriented introduction into the variety of methodologies and tools available to conduct research on the (built) environment at the urban and territorial scale.

This seminar supports researchers writing on topics related to landscape, urban studies, and architecture through offering hands-on guidance and a safe space for peer-to-peer exchange. The seminar participants receive guidance on how to work with fieldwork, literature reviews, and archival research, develop arguments and narrative arcs in writing.

This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies.

This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies.

This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies.

This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies.

This course is not offered in FS22.

Building cities is not solely a matter planners, designers, and developers, but also of the public. Urban Scale Models are well equipped to enable public participation in such development processes. This course focusses on such physical models, and provides students with an historical, theoretical and personal understanding of the urban scale model as a public tool.

Building cities is not solely a matter planners, designers, and developers, but also of the public. Urban Scale Models are well equipped to enable public participation in such development processes. This course focusses on such physical models, and provides students with an historical, theoretical and personal understanding of the urban scale model as a public tool.

‘Sites-and-services’ was an important housing paradigm that was mobilized in the context of development aid to provide cost-efficient housing for the global poor. As these were essentially unfinished projects that relied on their future inhabitants to complete their dwellings, in this seminar we discuss what we can learn from the histories of such atypical housing projects.

‘Sites-and-services’ was an important housing paradigm that was mobilized in the context of development aid to provide cost-efficient housing for the global poor. As these were essentially unfinished projects that relied on their future inhabitants to complete their dwellings, in this seminar we discuss what we can learn from the histories of such atypical housing projects.

The course examines the emergence of the post-war “global planning experts” who travelled the world on “missions” to solve urban design problems. These projects became sites of encounter between different models of urbanisation and development. In the course, students will explore the many actors involved in the architecture of foreign aid and investigate the changing agency of the architects.

This seminar studies the expansive landscapes of post-war housing estates across Europe. Students will investigate the historical roles and future potential of these sites through case studies and explore the interplay between architecture, land transformation, and governance. Through both research and design methods, the course addresses contemporary territorial and environmental challenges.

Building cities is not solely a matter planners, designers, and developers, but also of the public. Urban Scale Models are well equipped to enable public participation in such development processes. This course focusses on such physical models, and provides students with an historical, theoretical and personal understanding of the urban scale model as a public tool.