Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2024-2025
HART 408 - EXTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Long Title: EXTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Department: Art History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: Considering extractivism—from highly toxic practices such as mining to less maligned enterprises such as monoculture agriculture—this seminar explores the multiple ways in which architecture and urbanism have performed as instruments of extractive capitalism in Latin America, from the colonial search for El Dorado, to the neocolonial infrastructures of modern developmentalism, to the commodity boom and planetary urbanization of today. Engaging with critical theory and groundbreaking architectural history, students will interrogate the environmental and racialized social injustices supported by extractive architectures, as well as alternate forms of inhabiting the planet that have been left out of historical accounts. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 608.