Cultural revolutions and moments of societal upheaval have contributed to ways of looking beyond the traditional formats of teaching, learning, and making. As the social contexts for art and architecture discourse have changed, methodologies have likewise reflected an emergent avant-garde approach to a re-examination of the fields of art history and architecture theory. From pioneering hands-on programs at the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 30s, to their legacies reformatted under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College in the 1940s, to the Free Speech Movement of the 1950s, to the experimental 1960s Bay Area workshops led by Anna and Lawrence Halprin and the 1970s counter-education Critical Studies curriculum at Cal Arts led by Herbert Marcuse and Marshall McCluhan, this course examines the circumstances and explores the techniques of a history of radical pedagogy in art and architecture. RAD/PED is a two part seminar and teaching experiment – focusing on case studies as well as testing the seminar format for ways of pushing the discourse. We will study alternative models of learning as building blocks for non-traditional professional practice (i.e. curating architecture, architecture as art practice, art as social practice), and draw from intersectional theory and criticism on art and architecture (i.e. Marshall McCluhan, “The Medium is the Message,” John Berger, “Ways of Seeing” and Rosalind Krauss, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”). This course will be hands on and collectively driven, through roundtable discussions, offsite visits with artists, and generative workshops. SFMOMA will be a learning lab, but only one part of “breaking out of the classroom,” where we will be developing aberrant modes of looking and recording the impacts. 
 

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