Network Radicals: The Architecture of the Streaming City

Starting the summer semester lecture series on „Post-Medium Architecture“ Mark Wigley focuses on the “network” ...more
Shopping / Risk

Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process...more
Roofless Architecture

“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. ...more
Kissing Architecture: Super Diciplinarity and Confounding Media

Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at ... more
Design Problem Reality

If anyone out there still believes that architects are people with strong mathematical skills who build houses (and there are many who do) then they should look out for...more
Surface Goodness

Exploring the intersection between spaces, mathematics, and computation, George L. Legendre has developed a body of work that oscillates around the notion of “surface”...more
Towards Machinic Environments: From Model to Machine

The conceptual practices that emerged in the 1960s through radical architecture in Europe were linked to a networked society in which architecture is no longer a built object, but becomes...more

Post-Medium Architecture
SAC is proud to present its public lecture series for the Summer Semester, 2009. The list of visitors is as follows:
Mark Wigley: Netw ork Radicals : The Architecture of the Streaming City, 23. April 2009.
Harun Farocki: Shopping / Risk, 30. April 2009.
Takaharu Tezuka: Roofless Architecture, 7. May 2009.
Sylvia Lavin: Kissing Architecture: Super Diciplinarity and Confounding Media, 14. May 2009.
Jesko Fezer: Design Problem Reality, 2. June 2009
George L. Legendre: Surface Goodness, 18. June 2009.
Marie-Ange Brayer: Towards Machinic Environments: From Model to Machine, 25. June 2009
All lectures are open to the public and take place at 19:00 in the Städelschule Aula unless otherwise noted.
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The series was conceived by Nikolaus Hirsch and is presented with the generous support of by Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.
Mitglieder der AKH erhalten Fortbildungspunkte gut geschrieben, sobald sie die Teilnahmebescheinigung in Kopie der AKH zusenden.