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From a ‘cottage’ in Chile, a ‘tea equipage’ in London, a ‘veranda’ in Mumbai, to a ‘cathedral’ in Strasbourg, this course presents global entanglements of built spaces by tracing architectural actors such as users, critics, patrons, and other makers between, roughly, 1700 and 1900. By combining intersectional history with reception history, we ask: how and by whom were architectures also made?

From a ‘cottage’ in Chile, a ‘tea equipage’ in London, a ‘veranda’ in Mumbai, to a ‘cathedral’ in Strasbourg, this course presents global entanglements of built spaces by tracing architectural actors such as users, critics, patrons, and other makers between, roughly, 1700 and 1900. By combining intersectional history with reception history, we ask: how and by whom were architectures also made?

From a ‘cottage’ in Chile, a ‘tea equipage’ in London, a ‘veranda’ in Mumbai, to a ‘cathedral’ in Strasbourg, this course presents global entanglements of built spaces while asking who we listen to when forming our understanding of architectural histories. By combining intersectional history with reception history, we ask: how and by whom were architectures also made?

What about diversity in the historiography of architecture? This course applies concepts such as equality, diversity, or inclusivity to the construction of the past. It explores texts written by marginalised authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. What kind of histories will we write based on the testimonies of those commonly excluded from the canon due to their gender, race, class, or sexuality?

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.

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.