examine a building, architectural problem, or theoretical issue in the context of what you have learned in course texts, lectures, discussions, and your own research. Your analysis should situate your topic in its historical context and in relation to larger discussions about architecture like the ones we have been studying throughout the semester. Rather
than exploring a broad aspect of contemporary architecture, this assignment asks you to focus on a specific building, concept, event, publication, or idea in architectural theory and/or practice between the 1960s and the present. As you examine your topic, you may use texts from the class, but your argument should be based, primarily, on carefully chosen sources that specifically pertain to your case study and that support your claims. You are enthusiastically encouraged to investigate areas that complement and balance the narrative for this course (for example, buildings or practices that lie outside the Western canon, or the work of women or minority theorists/architects). If appropriate you may also use the course’s narrative or buildings examined in class as examples to help draw comparisons. The paper should be, in a sense, an application of the process we have been using in the course. In class, instances of critical thinking about architecture (exhibitions, books, journals, theories, concepts)are presented alongside those buildings that were instigated by those ideas or, conversely, buildings and historical conditions are examined as instigators of architectural thought. You are invited to do the same in this paper by considering productive intersections between historical events, theories (architectural or otherwise), practices, and design. Depth, however, should always be privileged over breadth, and your writing should offer a concise and nuanced interpretation and a clear argument. Remember, this paper is not intended to be a commentary on the quality or merits of a building or idea; it is not a design critique. Instead, we are asking you to think historically about the specific object that you are studying and to frame an argument in relation to the multi-layered social, material, and intellectual environment within which your object is situated.
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