This course aims to help students understand the social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped the discourses and paradigms of architecture. This course investigates a series of selected issues and advanced topics in architectural history and theory through a variety of historical and critical lenses. It helps students to examine the historiography of architecture and to interpret chronological and topical changes in architecture critically. The course emphasizes the student’s ability to formulate special study areas in architectural history and theory and conduct case studies or special studies of the subject matter.