Description
Constructing Discourse will examine a range of contemporary topics along with those working on them. As a complement to thesis, the course seeks to expose and debate the state of architecture to inform the individual student’s point of view. Our current time might be characterized not by any dominant or pervasive point of view but rather by a range of interests and arguments about the steady expansion of architecture, its agency and relevance to the world it helps construct. While some argue for a relaxation of disciplinary boundaries, others maintain architecture as a pursuit apart with unique and powerful qualities particular to its project. A series of questions arise: What motivates the progress of architecture? When is architecture autonomous and when is it engaged, circumstantial and contingent? By what means does architecture effect or condition change, and what are the limits of those means? What is the cultural imagination and how does architecture contribute to it? How are th