Architecture and Empire

Offers a critical assessment of the relationship between imperialism and architecture with a focus on the European empires in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from the 15th to 20th centuries. Using case studies organized chronologically and by empire, this course will look at the architecture of European colonies not just from the viewpoint of the colonizer but also from that of the colonized. It will consider how architecture functions as an image of power and nostalgia for the colonizers but how strategies used by colonized people preserved their own architectural traditions and iconography in the architecture and subverted imperial goals.