ARCH 490

Fall 2026 All Classes

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Special Topics in Contemporary Architecture

Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Selected topics in and applications of contemporary architecture; see Class Schedule or department office for current topics.

1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in separate terms up to 12 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours, if topics vary. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. For majors only.

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ARCH 490 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			80012	Seminar	MA	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	Location Pending	Asker, M	Availability: Open Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Over, Under, Otherwise Section Info: This seminar takes up what we might call an unorthodox auxiliary—a repertoire of techniques that are less heroic, less automatically oppositional, more effective, and sneakier. These tactics—rumor, exaggeration, doubling, absurdity, remotes, dissensus—expand the vocabulary of activism. They allow us to act obliquely rather than head-on, to create openings instead of walls, to experiment with forms of resistance that are performative, poetic, and plural. By testing these tactics through drawings, artifacts, and public staging, we will explore how architecture is not only something we make, but something that makes us. The seminar culminates in a collective exhibition/installation: a tactical assembly that rehearses new repertoires of activism—less heroic, more inventive, and quietly disruptive.