Histories of Architecture Against

Harvard GSD

This course focuses on the challenges of writing histories of architecture against—against capital, the state, or other types of power. In the first half of the course, we will examine the links between the task of the historian and systems of domination, as well as the technologies mobilized by these systems to exert power over territories and subjects. In the second half, we will discuss systems of control including nationalism, capital, and culture, as well as the work of agents within,…