This course will focus on architectural practices and thought experiments toward an “open architecture” throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In this course, open architecture is defined as the translation of a new ethics of hospitality into architecture.

Is it a misfortune or an injustice to be subject to floods? What about earthquakes, famines, wars, poverty, segregation, or to be a woman? This seminar encourages close reading of a selection of texts that have contributed to art and architectural history, particularly emphasizing the ongoing discussions on the relation between architecture and justice.

This Practicum-seminar explores a critical history of modern architecture through architectural exhibitions, including venues with drawings, photographs and models in a gallery space; 1:1 scale structures built for display; buildings in world expositions; and building exhibitions as large city segments.

This methods seminar encourages close reading of a selection of texts that have contributed to art and architectural historiography in the last decades, particularly emphasizing the ongoing discussions and multiple trajectories of critical and global histories.

This seminar explores the multidirectional and multilateral relations between the three words in its title—climate : history : architecture. It not only reviews the role of climate in the history of architecture, but also exposes the role of architecture in the history of climate (i.e. climate change).

Part 2 of History of Architecture

This methods seminar encourages close reading of a selection of foundational texts that have constructed art and architectural history as a discipline. It equips students with the basic skills of writing different formats of texts about architecture, including book proposals and reviews, surveys, scholarly articles, journalistic essays, exhibition catalogues and wall texts, conference presentations, and tweets.

This seminar proposes to triangulate three cities from three different countries to understand the connections between migration and discrimination. Istanbul, Lahore, and Berlin, in the context of Turkey, Pakistan, and Germany, will be the foci of analysis through the perspective of urban humanities fields such as architecture, visual arts, urbanism, and literature.