ARCH8733

This seminar introduces the student to theories and criticisms of contemporary architecture from the beginnings of the modern period to contemporary issues. This seminar course is designed to be highly interactive and will consist of facilitated discussion, weekly writing assignments, in-class exercises and presentations. Students will have the responsibility of initiating weekly discussion of the assigned readings. In-class discourse includes discussion and analysis of the central arguments and conclusions of the theoretical constructs presented in the piece made relative to the contemporary and future practice of architecture. Students will prepare a series of long research papers that analyze and synthesize the arguments presented in the selected readings for the course. A brief oral presentation will accompany the term paper to engage classmates and invited guests in critical commentary.