23. APRIL: Mark Wigley
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
30. April 2009: Harun Farocki
Shopping / Risk
- Copyright/Autor: Hertha Hurnaus
Shopping is an everyday cultural act, taken for granted, inevitable, yet the result of a highly complex planning process...more
7. May 2009: Takaharu Tezuka
Roofless Architecture
- Photo: DAM
“Roof House”, “Wall-less House” and “”Sky House” are the programmatic names of the projects of Tokyo-based Tezuka Architects. ...more
14. May 2009: Sylvia Lavin
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
2. June 2009: Jesko Fezer
Design Problem Reality
- Foto by Silvan Linden
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
18. June 2009: George L. Legendre
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
25. June 2009: Marie-Ange Brayer
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
Sylvia Lavin: Kissing Architecture. Super-Disciplinarity and Confounding Media
14. May 2009
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 Princeton University's School of Architecture. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
She has published „Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture“ (MIT Press, 1992) and „Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture“ (MIT Press, 2005). Her next book, „The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity“ will be published by MIT Press in 2009 and she is working on a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of „Crib Sheets“, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli press.