The focus of this seminar is twofold: to examine the nature and state of architecture criticism and to explore the relationship between writing and practice in architecture. This year the seminar focuses on platforms for architecture criticism as an organizing rubric, with each student choosing to develop a work of criticism across the term in a singular format, whether print volume, newsletter, podcast, broadsheet, journal essay, or some other medium. The course begins with an efficient survey of modern and contemporary approaches to architecture criticism, for both public and disciplinary audiences, including the recent urbanist turn, emerging models of collective criticism, and the anxieties and possibilities unleashed by the decline of print and the rise of social media and the larger realm of digital culture. It explores the role, influence, and strategic approaches of architects who write, with an emphasis on how publication, across a range of genres, can inform and complement practice and give architects a particular kind of agency within the field. Critics, editors, and architects join the course across the semester to offer reflections on writing (their own and others’), criticism, and publication. Students finish the course with an informed sense of how criticism has operated and now operates in architecture culture—a sense that directly informs their own understanding of practice and the future trajectory of their own work.