This course will take the form of reading seminars in which we examine women's travel writings of the 18th and 19th centuries for their commentary on the designed environment. While architectural histories often focus on male-dominated processes of design and production, this seminar sets out to discover architecture’s past as seen through the eyes of female travellers.

The seminar is always given by a guest lecturer at the institute gta and deals with topics ranging from the history of architecture through the history of the city to the history of the landscape from the early modern period to today.In HS20 the seminar explores the history of modern architecture and planning as a medium of territorial thought and transformation since the1880s.