This course examines the complex and intersecting relationships between environment, land, and territory. These intersections are shaped by our ideas about nature, culture, landscape, urbanism, rurality, ownership, natural resources, excavation, regulations, labor, and comfort. These intersections take on political, economic, and social dimensions that leave behind architectural and urban evidence and remnants. The course is not limited by geographies, disciplines, or time periods. It is instead organized thematically to complicate our understanding of the concept of environment when studied through the lens of land and territory. Our readings will question dominant rhetoric on environmental control and management and techno-utopian worldviews. The readings and case studies presented throughout the semester are a small part of complex, multilayered histories that seek new methods and conceptual frameworks for our engagement with the environment.