Architecture | Utopia | Authoritarianism

Harvard FAS

Can utopian thinking produce a new world? Can architecture bring about spaces radically different from those we inhabit today? This course examines utopia as a central project of twentieth‑century modern architecture. Drawing on key theoretical texts and case studies across political regimes and ideologies in Europe, North Africa and the Americas, we will analyze how architects have mobilized utopian ideas in search of liberty and emancipation while also supplying techniques of authoritarian…