This course explores how theoretical frameworks from other disciplines – addressing issues of race, feminism, cyberspace, and public fear – entered architectural discourse in the 1990s and challenged architects to critically reassess the foundations, premises, and character of architecture.

This course examines a variety of theories – lightness, whiteness, the diagram, public fear, feminism – from other disciplines that entered the architectural debate in the 1990s and have since inspired architects to produce different architectural designs.

This course examines how pressing societal challenges – including segregation, migration, gender inequality, extraction, waste, food systems, and digitalisation – are redefining urban discourse. It invites students to question their preconceptions about cities and urban design and to critically reflect on their role as socially engaged city-makers.

This course foregrounds non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in the history and theory of urban design. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course is a quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in urban theory developed in the South. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

In this seminar, we focus on two crucial perspectives that represent some of the most radical changes in the understanding of architecture and the city —gender and urban sociology—as a way of unlocking an alternative historiography of architecture, one that more truthfully aligns with the experience of architects and architectural students.

This seminar takes a long-running architecture ideas competition and uses it to identify key topics in architecture culture. Studying the competition materials of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-2019) and mapping the complexity of knowledge exchange taking place within it, this seminar will open up new, cross-cultural perspectives on ‘housing the urbanite’.

This seminar explores women's contribution to post-war urban theory and design, focusing on 1) the concept of agency 2) the notion of “professional woman” and 3) critical writing as a methodology. Students will read and critically engage in class discussions. They will also each analyze a female protagonist's contribution to urban design and theory and, collectively, build an online exhibition.