4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ICNUpath WI
Exposes students to a range of critical architectural practices and key theoretical frameworks from roughly 1990 through the present. Situates architectural production and discourse within a broader context of technological, cultural, and social processes, emphasizing the reciprocal exchange between architecture and its larger cultural and social context. Investigates the idea of the “contemporary” as both a temporal and conceptual notion, as well as the idea of a “critical” architecture and its relationship to both a historical avant-garde and “mainstream” architectural culture.