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Abstract
This class examines how architecture acts through its disciplinary toolbox and bodies of knowledge in spatial predicaments such as war and dispossession; population exchange and nation-building; territorial expansionalism and nationalized pasts.
Objective
Students will learn first about the compatibility between political and aesthetic forms, and about the cultural and professional strategies through which architecture intervene in contested sites. Second, they will gain critical tools to understand the power embedded in the production of history. And third, they will have the opportunity to examine the crisis in Palestine from their own disciplinary perspective.
Content
This class examines how architecture acts through its disciplinary toolbox and bodies of knowledge in spatial predicaments such as war and dispossession; population exchange and nation-building; territorial expansionalism and nationalized pasts. It focuses on Israeli and Palestinian cities, buildings, and landscapes that constantly undergo spatial re-figuration under instance disparity of political power. Instead of resorting to the myriad terminologies that shape our perception of this conflict, we will question their power to produce and silence the histories of concrete people and places.