Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture: On Good Form: American Architecture and Criticism, 1950-75

This seminar explores the parallelism of two things that were arguably at their peak in the US between 1950-75, namely architecture (with architecture understood as a discipline that is in the business of producing buildings) and criticism, with so many writers all straddling the popular world of newspapers, magazines, and radio, and the more rarefied world of scholarly discourse. Students engage with both of these things, not (or at least not wholly) through the nostalgia of enjoying a particular moment and milieu, but as a spur to generating their own written content, which will be contained in a specially conceived one-off magazine.