The enduring conception of which architecture is an autonomous field of inquiry has long been under critical coercion for there remains a wide spectrum of ideological positions in design to overcome. Viewed from perspectives of critical social theory contemporary exertions in design now problematize architectural discourse and discursive practices within frameworks of power and social transgression. What is so peculiar in these frameworks is the mode of inquiry that no longer expels politics from the insights of architectural intelligentsia yet rather promotes “ideological mappings” to reveal the micro-histories of such discourses. The primary objective of this course, in this sense, is to consider politics, power, and social transgression as crucial spheres that are integral to design discourses and practices.