ARC3300H S
Instructor: John Harwood
Meeting Section: L0101
Thursday, 3:00pm - 6:00pm

The (capital “T”) Market (capital “M”) has been a central political term of art in the theoretical and then practical “neoliberal” transformation of global political economy since the end of World War II. This course will examine the relationship between architecture and markets, beginning with the literal landscapes and buildings of marketplaces in the early modern world to the (supposedly) disembodied architectures and infrastructures of global capitalism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Readings will treat major themes in the theory of political economy as well as architectural historical and theoretical texts that address themselves directly to matters of commerce. Students will be expected to develop an original research project, in the form of a conventional academic paper or an analytical model.