ARCH 591

Spring 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

Special Problems in Architectural History and Theory

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Credit: 3 TO 4 hours.

Examines historical and/or theoretical problems in the history of architecture, the built environment, and related designed objects and arts in relation to emerging, interdisciplinary research. Topics can include thematic investigations of historical, conceptual, aesthetic, and theoretical problems; the work of particular architects and/or patrons; specific buildings or environments in a single or multiple geographic regions or periods.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Graduate Standing.

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ARCH 591 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
69099	Seminar	HG	2:00PM -4:50PM	R	205 Architecture Building	Grossman, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Memory and Architecture Section Info: "Architecture and Memory." How do groups physically locate their shared identity and collective memory? How does architecture help us remember (or forget) our triumphant or traumatic pasts and project our desires for the future? This seminar examines the relationship between memory, architecture, history, and place to understand how buildings, monumental arts, and the designed environment contain, convey, obscure, and, at times, alter the collective memory of human experiences. We will pursue a number of historical and contemporary case studies, addressing such topics as the destruction or preservation of cultural heritage, iconographies of remembrance in the designed environment, the construction of memorials to trauma, racial, gender, and social identities, and memory in the urban form. Theoretical/conceptual texts will help us understand architecture in relationship to the field of memory studies, though the focus of the course is on the built environment itself. This term, cultural heritage and monuments in times of war and upheaval will be a particular focus. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
30330	Seminar	HG4	2:00PM -4:50PM	R	Location Pending	Grossman, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Memory & Architecture (4 cred) Section Info: In Spring 2026, this section meets with ARCH 591 section HG.
45150	Seminar	WZ	11:00AM -1:50PM	R	1134 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Zhao, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Space, Place, and Justice Section Info: One hour of additional credit is available by arrangement with the instructor. This course focuses on the social, cultural, and political meanings of space, and issues of equity and justice in the built environment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and adopting theories from anthropology, sociology, landscape architecture, cultural geography, philosophy, and urban studies, we will examine concepts of space, place, and the meaning of place from multiple perspectives. Aiming to provide diverse, underrepresented, and global perspectives, this course scrutinizes issues of gender, race, identity, equity, justice, power, and diversity and their impacts on the built environment, and invites students to develop analytical skills and their own understandings of these issues. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.