Architecture Theory: 20thC History of Ideas examines theoretical frameworks and methodologies that have formed the groundwork for both the production of architecture and the understanding of architecture’s relations to society and cultural production in the twentieth and into the twenty first century. These frameworks include the constructs of history, ideology, production, time, speed and space, in conjunction with the emergence of new notions of subjectivity, language and representation. Through these the course will approach a series of questions involving the associations constructed between architecture and: autonomy, technology, perception, mass and digital production, materiality and diagramming.

Requirements: Attendance at 3 lectures and 1 discussion section per week, completion of all readings prior to class and participation in the class discussions. Printouts of the day’s readings should be brought to each class. There will be a midterm exam, a final exam and a group research project.