This course examines major architectural theories and debates which have informed, catalyzed, or destabilized the discourse of architecture in the past seven decades. Focusing on selected key texts, ideologies, and figures, the course considers the changing role of architectural theory—as a vehicle of thought, a guide for practice, a catalyst for design, and a platform for debate. Topics shows formal or theoretical resonances in the problematics and poetics of architectural productions apropos of the technofantasist neo-avant-gardism, the post-structural semiosis, the postmodern consumerism, conceptual architecture, pop architecture, hippie counterculture, etc.
Gopher Grades is maintained by Social Coding with data from Summer 2017 to Spring 2025 provided by the University in response to a public records request