The texts in this volume are the result of many weeks of hard work by students and faculty alike in the Architecture program at IE University. The work illustrates the results of an ongoing experiment in how to teach history, and how to infuse it with the energy and sensibilities of studio design teaching.

What you have here, then, is the collected effort to grapple with a few key questions. The dedication of the students included here makes this series of essays much more than a mere collection of opinion pieces, or essays on given topics. What we have here are explorations and questions. They are openings and provocations, not conclusions.