Pedagogy, Practice and (Shifting) Possibilities

Delivered at Harvard's Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture in March 2022, this lecture addresses the relationship between how architecture is taught and what it enables practitioners to see. Drawing on the ETH Zurich chair's three research lines — dismantling, unarchiving, and refusing — it argues that the inherited frameworks of architectural education systematically exclude the forms of knowledge most needed for building justly in the Global South, and that a genuinely equitable architecture requires not just new projects but new pedagogical conditions.