De-Centering the Canon: Architecture and Urbanism

Harvard GSD

This course is an inquiry into the boundaries of the Canons that dominate the discourse in Architecture and Urbanism globally. By posing counter narratives, we will interrogate the limits of the Canons propelled in the West – their histories and production cultures across material, political, economic, and social spheres. Over the centuries, the legacy of colonization, the industrial revolution and globalization have insidiously proliferated monolithic, singular truths, which have dominated…