Architecture cannot be understood solely as the design of individual buildings. Reflecting on its role in the making of cities and shaping of contemporary urbanity are of architects’ primary responsibility. The main objective of this course is to engage students with diverse frameworks on analyzing, understanding and interpreting cities in contemporary architectural theory and to provoke them to make critical and stimulating projections on the built environments. The course mainly offers canonical architecture books and articles as the main object of study in order to unfold certain themes that facilitate a more relational approach between architecture and the city. Thus, the course dwells on the writings of architectural historians, theoreticians or practitioners since the aim is to understand how the city is framed through different lenses in the field of architecture different than - though not exclusive of - social and political theory, philosophy, geography, etc. The literature covers a period from the early 1970s up until today. The seminal sources are brought together to draw a comprehensive yet selective picture of the postmodern and more contemporary debates in architectural theory.