This seminar explores both architectural and environmental histories of war zones and post-war zones and examines major architectural practices and key concepts, such as urbicide and ecocide.

Worlds’ major deserts—both hot and cold—have often served to search, extract, and transport the deserts’ various natural resources, such as oil and gas, as well as to design and build new cities, infrastructures, residential architecture, tourist complexes, farming systems, solar power plants, climate and aerospace research centers, chemical weapons testing complexes, nuclear weapon research cente

Through a critical analysis of case studies from different regions of the world, this seminar explores the complex relationships that have shaped the built environment, psychological institutions, social control, and power dynamics (civil and military) within colonial contexts in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries.