History, Theory, and Society
The Department of Architecture offers Master of Science and PhD degrees in the area of History, Theory, and Society. The program focuses on the the history and theory of architecture, the built environment, and contemporary urbanism within a broad social, political, and cultural framework.
The Program
HTS students engage with a range of topics across space and time. Based on your interests and background, you can draw on historical and theoretical material from across the humanities to formulate areas of study and thesis and dissertation topics.
Building on Berkeley’s pioneering study of non-western environments, the HTS program considers issues of development and globalization in the 20th and 21st century. The emphasis is on situating architecture, building and urbanism in a larger intellectual context through the use of contemporary social theory, historical analysis, and a variety of methods from ethnography to archival research. Applicants are encouraged to carefully examine the research interests of the program faculty listed below.
Faculty
The following are members of the faculty who focus on the subject area of History, Theory and Society. Please also review the current list of all faculty in the Department of Architecture.
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Professor of Architecture20th-century architecture with an emphasis on midcentury modernism, Cold War–era design, consumer culture, architecture and the history of emotions. -
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Professor of ArchitectureArchitecture of globalization, discourses of architecture and urbanism -
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Professor of ArchitectureArchitecture and consumer culture, memory and the built environment, paper architecture and the unbuilt, expositions, themed landscapes, and architectural rhetoric. -
Professor of ArchitectureRole of architecture in the climate crisis, interactions between alternative forms of planetary imagination and architectural practice
Alums of the HTS program
Applicants are also encouraged to review the list of MS and PhD alums for their dissertation topics and more information on the program.