This course critically repositions architecture as an active, accountable practice embedded in social struggle. Tracing the evolving history, theory, and efficacy of the profession’s social justice project, it examines the strategies and models through which architects, designers, planners, and activists have mobilized professional expertise to confront inequity and advance Public Interest Design as a platform for social change.
This course does count as an architecture history elective for M.Arch 3G students.
*Meets with ARCH 486-001
If interested in this course, Undergraduate students must register for ARCH 486; Graduate students must register for ARCH 586.
