HHIS-293: Hist & Theory Space: Looking

History and Theory of Space: Looking Back Rather than a survey course that focuses solely on the social production of space throughout history, this class examines the ways in which environmental designers and architects in the 19th and 20th centuries have looked backwards, borrowing from other traditions and appropriating the signs and aesthetic qualities from past cultures to produce spaces that became entirely emblematic of their own time. By using this analytical lens, students will both learn how space was conceptualized according to a given set of social, cultural, political and economic forces as well as the way in which these elements get examined and rewritten anew according to a new set of historical constructs. Layering our analysis in this way allows us to explore a greater breadth of work while probing the ways designers, through their work, have engaged in a dialogue across space and time.