ARC 342R, ARC 388R
W 9:00AM-12:00PM, WMB 5.102
Open to all Upper Division Undergrads and Grad students
Instructor: Bryan Norwood
In this course, we will use the history of the built environment to consider select themes in the history of capitalism. We will begin by exploring several ways that capitalism has been defined, situating these definitions in relationship to architecture and the built environment. We will then move through a series of themes in the history of capitalism, thinking about labor, land, and markets, as well as liberalism and neoliberalism, and extraction and computation. This class will be organized around a mixture of lectures, readings, and group discussions. While we will necessarily need to attend to larger time frames, our focus will be on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. And while we will attend to global geographies, our focus will be on select cases in the Atlantic World.
