This seminar investigates architects who work within a critique of globalization; a disdain for the impacts of “flat world” labor, material supply and environmental impacts; and an exploration of both form and architectural production that is profoundly local in material, construction craft and technique, capacity building and sustainability (environmental, social, economic and cultural). In the hands of the most talented of these architects, these attitudes lead to fresh, elegant, and leading-edge architecture. The seminar situates this work as part of a hundred-and-twenty year trajectory of pushing back against the hegemony of modernism, resisting the centrality of Europe in architectural history and discourse, decolonizing vast sections of the world, and forging new forms and paths of architectural practice.

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