History & Theory

Public 2026-2027 offerings

30 courses

HIS 4100Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Origins and Ends
HIS 4123Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Architecture's Multiple Modernities
HIS 4141History, Theory Culture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
HIS 4142History, Theory, Culture II: Material Histories of Landscape Architecture
HIS 4152Urban Planning Theory and Praxis: Comparative-Historical Origins and Applications
HIS 4223Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Modernism, Its Practices, and Its Theories
HIS 4358Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
HIS 4374Cities, Infrastructure, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart and Sustainable Technologies
HIS 4384Building and Urban Conservation and Renewal: Assessment, Analysis, Design
HIS 4399Architecture and Construction: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital
HIS 4423The Shapes of Utopia
HIS 4454The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
HIS 4487Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
HIS 4488Making the American City: Form and Society
HIS 4496Urban Design: Theories, Strategies, and Practices
HIS 4509Histories of Architecture Against
HIS 4517Writing and Urban Life (at FAS)
HIS 4518De-Centering the Canon: Architecture and Urbanism
HIS 4521Routes, Realms, Ruins: Roman Landscapes in the Modern Imagination
HIS 4523Symptomatic Reading of Architecture
HIS 4524Ordinary to Icon: Case Studies in the Rehabilitation of Modern Buildings and Sites
HIS 4525Design Fundamentals, The Postdigital, and the Anthropocene
HIS 4526Landscape, Architecture, and/on the Printed Page
HIS 4530Transition as Condition: Urban Form and Environment
HIS 4531Monuments, Monumentality, and Meaning
HIS 4532Urban Fragments in América / the Americas
HIS 4534Environmental Histories: Ancient Practices and Modern Problems
HIS 4535After Urbanism: Political Ecologies of Collective Space
HIS 4536History and Theory of Preservation (Module 1)
HIS 4537Transition as Condition: Reconstruction in Times of War and Environmental Crisis