HT: Architecture and Environment: Entangled Histories Since the nineteenth century, architects and architectural theorists have wrestled with the entangled relationship between the human and natural worlds, between buildings and environments. This seminar explores the long history of these ideas about architecture and environment, focusing on the critical period from 1850 to 1915, when cataclysmic processes of modernization, urbanization, and capitalist industrialization compelled critical thought about humans' proper relationship to the natural world. The seminar will have two parts: In the first half of the semester, we'll explore how early environmental-architectural thinkers like Alexander von Humboldt, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Catharine Beecher theorized the reciprocal influences of humans on the environment, and vice versa. During the second half of the semester, we will undertake a collective research project into the entangled material histories of modern buildings - tracing the politics of how wood, glass, concrete and iron are transformed and assembled into architecture.

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