Housing Matters
Farshid Moussavi
This seminar investigates the politics of housing by focusing on the relationships between spatial, material,…
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Urban Ethnographies
Michael Herzfeld
Planners’ understanding of social process and cultural values is often woefully inadequate, and their thinking…
Origins and Contemporary Practices of Asian Landscape Architecture: Korean Perspectives and More
Jungyoon Kim
The term “Asian” can be misleading; it conjures images of one identity that can be…
Histories of Architecture Against
Ana Maria Leon Crespo
This course focuses on the challenges of writing histories of architecture against—against capital, against the…
CONTESTED Landscapes + COUNTER Narratives
Thaïsa Way
No place holds one, singular story. Every place, every site is complex, layered, and full…
The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
Mohsen Mostafavi
What is the future of urbanization?What role can design play in shaping that future? …
Why Not Cultural Systems? Expanding Our Value System Beyond Nature and Ecology
Charles A. Birnbaum
How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory? How do our collective planning, design…
The Fifth Plan
Ron Witte
In this seminar, we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations:…
Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic
Chris Reed
Our aim in the proseminar is to explore the inherent inventedness of ecology as a…
Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image as Narrative Structure
Edward Eigen
In our Proseminar, we will grapple with a selection of critical discussions on word and…