History and Theory of Preservation (Module 1)

Harvard GSD

Kate Wagner, The Nation’s architectural critic, recently wrote in an issue on the country’s 250th anniversary, that the “most urgent question in architecture today” is “what do we do with the things that have already been built, the materials that have already been industrialized, the things we have already used? These are not just matters of conservation, preservation, or environmentalism, but a reckoning with the past. That past includes not only modernism but the mindset of disposability…