This interdisciplinary seminar examines the architecture of modernity through a focus on the child. Key buildings comprising the modernist canon were designed for children, and debates fundamental to modernism, such as the debate between formalism and functionalism, employed images of children as rhetorical constructs. The aim of the course is to link these two fields of knowledge—childhood studies and architectural history, in order to explore interpretive approaches that emphasize issues of power, knowledge and subjectivity over  accounts which define modernism through categories of authorship, style or technology.