Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
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27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
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22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
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20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
Portugal: Architecture, Tendenza, Revolution
Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
3 August 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
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Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
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4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
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Visiting Scholar Tamar Zinguer presents her research: This talk explores the attraction that the quantitatively precise literary term “degree zero” holds. Through a selection of historic references to the zero degree in and about architecture, the talk articulates a plurality of zeroes and different modalities of nothingness as they apply to the discipline of(...)
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10 July 2014, 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Tamar Zinguer
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Visiting Scholar Tamar Zinguer presents her research: This talk explores the attraction that the quantitatively precise literary term “degree zero” holds. Through a selection of historic references to the zero degree in and about architecture, the talk articulates a plurality of zeroes and different modalities of nothingness as they apply to the discipline of(...)
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31 July 2014 , 6PM
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Topic: The national and the foreigner and the space of the in-between. The quest for a dialogue in Brazilian urban space between the 1930’s and 1960’s. Presentation: The quest for dialogue in Brazilian urban space
27 June 2013
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Anat Falbel
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Topic: The national and the foreigner and the space of the in-between. The quest for a dialogue in Brazilian urban space between the 1930’s and 1960’s. Presentation: The quest for dialogue in Brazilian urban space
Topic: L’architecture en expositions. Contribution à une sociohistoire de la médiation architecturale. Les cas du CCA (Montréal) et du CCI (Paris) Presentation: The CCA before the CCA
25 July 2013
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Pierre Chabard
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Topic: L’architecture en expositions. Contribution à une sociohistoire de la médiation architecturale. Les cas du CCA (Montréal) et du CCI (Paris) Presentation: The CCA before the CCA
2012 Visiting Scholar Manfredo di Robilant examines dropped ceilings through the rise, the decline, and the rethinking of Modern architecture. Click here for the Facebook event.
31 May 2012 , 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Manfredo di Robilant
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2012 Visiting Scholar Manfredo di Robilant examines dropped ceilings through the rise, the decline, and the rethinking of Modern architecture. Click here for the Facebook event.