ARCH 506, Section 1

This seminar focuses on land and its spatial dimensions. Architecture and urban planning have largely benefited from an understanding of land as colonial, capitalist real property. Yet, countervailing land-based practices have long persisted and been cultivated alongside and against normative property systems. This course will thus examine how architecture and planning have come to depend on a particular, problematic notion of real property and, more importantly, explore the historical, theoretical, and practical possibilities of land as a collective medium for environmental relations. The course will include instructor lectures, reading discussions, guest speakers, site visits, and one semester-long assignment.