In the twentieth century, radical social, political, economic, environmental, and technological shifts challenged existing social contracts - offering new potentials for exercising dominance as well as paths toward liberation. These historical transformations were reified in - and shaped by - new spatial arrangements.
The course charts a map of these transformations as they intersect with the production of the objects most specific to the discipline of architecture: buildings. In order to consider buildings as simultaneously concrete objects and conceptual constructs, the coursework examines the changing and competing definitions of the notion of typology as a means to historicize architecture in relation to modernity in the twentieth century.