Space and Culture

Buildings don't just house culture, they encode it: this graduate seminar treats the built environment as a text where identity, memory, and power are written by architects and ordinary inhabitants alike. You'll read across cultural theory and architectural criticism, then put those frameworks to work on cases ranging from contested and marginal sites to vernacular landscapes and heritage debates, building toward a research report and presentation of your own. It's less about design technique than about learning to argue rigorously about why spaces mean what they mean, which is the analytical backbone for thesis work in history, theory, and conservation tracks.