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Deepen basic knowledge, improve ability to critically analyze architectural history texts, develop humanities-based reasoning and argument skills.

This lecture studies Antiquity and the Middle Ages through their reception since the Renaissance. We will investigate the role of history for architects then and now through analysis of how architecture has been defined in relationship to the antique and medieval past. Short readings and class participation required.

This lecture studies Antiquity and the Middle Ages through their reception since the Renaissance. We will investigate the role of history for architects then and now through analysis of how architecture has been defined in relationship to the antique and medieval past. Short readings and class participation required.

This lecture studies Antiquity and the Middle Ages through their reception since the Renaissance. We will investigate the role of history for architects then and now through analysis of how architecture has been defined in relationship to the antique and medieval past. Short weekly reading and class participation required.

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.

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This seminar draws architectural history's attention to textual sources from advice literature that formulate the normative and gendered standards of interior design, decoration and homemaking. Through a critical examination of advice ranging from Ottoman adab books to Western etiquette manuals, we will examine the various regimes and expressions of gender embedded in the skin of architecture.

This course shifts the study of infrastructure from abstract material and bureaucratic networks to the buildings, objects, and technologies at the wire’s end. Using the design of these terminal elements as our primary points of analysis, we will read the history of infrastructure through its use and interpretation in local communities.

We often think of buildings as fixed in their locations, but many buildings have been physically moved from their original sites for reasons as diverse as economic development, aesthetic imperatives or environmental necessity. This course investigates building relocation case-studies from the 20th c. up to now, from the translocation of giant Egyptian temples to mobile home schemes.

This seminar will study the material, cultural, and social parameters that conditioned drawing practices in Europe from the 15th through 19th centuries. We will examine drawings firsthand, and compile critical perspectives to grasp the varied roles drawings performed in artistic and architectural practices as well as the production of knowledge, and the constitution of power structures.

This seminar draws architectural history's attention to textual sources from advice literature that formulate the normative and gendered standards of interior design, decoration and homemaking. Through a critical examination of advice ranging from Ottoman adab books to Western etiquette manuals, we will examine the various regimes and expressions of gender embedded in the skin of architecture.

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

Before we design buildings, we travel: as a source of education, imagination or visual appropriation. This course examines the relationship of travel with architecture when it was institutionalised as a crucial part of the professional competence; confronting different historical modes of encounters with today’s practice.

Before we design buildings, we travel: as a source of education, imagination or visual appropriation. This course examines the relationship of travel with architecture when it was institutionalised as a crucial part of the professional competence; confronting different historical modes of encounters with today’s practice.

How can our writing be different if we write with the toolkits of queer feminism? How can this practice of writing help us to imagine an otherwise for the spaces we inhabit, draw, invade, or leave behind? This course will critically approach these questions, centering the practice of collective and creative writing, focusing on the radical writings of queer feminists of color.

What happens if we think about the archive through our bodies? Can we see archives as fragments of personal encounters instead of an impersonal all-encompassing institutional authority? The course critically approaches museum institutions, archives and the politics of value in the postcolonial and centres the body and its contigencies to think towards the museum and archive of the future.

Introduction to methodological approaches in the history and theory of architecture; presentation and discussion of individual doctoral projects. 2nd semester of year-long course.