Symposium
Veranstalter: Assistenzprofessur Stalder
Datum : Freitag, 19. Juni 2009 bis Samstag, 20. Juni 2009 14:00-20:00; 9:00-19:00
Ort : Collegium Helveticum, Semper Sternwarte
Architectural historiography has tended to regard the 1950s as a period of lesser theoretical intensity, particularly when compared with the 1960s. However, debates in journals and magazines as well as reported public conferences and congresses — such as postwar CIAMS, the Team X meetings or the International Ekistics Seminar — allow for an alternative interpretation. Sources such as these offer evidence of the challenges within architectural thinking that extend beyond individual contributions.
Many of the widely debated notions in the period between 1945 and 1965 took their stances from other disciplines like sociology, anthropology, or the natural sciences thereby acquiring new values and sometimes almost undertaking autonomous lives. The particular set of words — reflecting mostly the Anglo-Saxon world — challenged the codified vocabulary of the formative years of the modern movement. Organizing a system for thinking, it thus allowed architecture and urbanism to be approached and framed differently.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine some keywords used in the postwar period and how they have been adopted, transformed and popularized by the architectural discourse of the time.
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PROGRAM
Friday, June 19, 2009
14:00
Introduction: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich/Mary Lou Lobsinger, University of Toronto
14:15–17:45
Section 1: Chair Stanislaus von Moos, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio
CORE: Eric Mumford, Washington University, St. Louis
GROWTH: Dominique Rouillard, ENSA Paris–Malaquais
PLAY: Dirk van den Heuvel, TU Delft
CONTROL: Hadas Steiner, University at Buffalo
SOFTWARE: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich
Discussion
18:15
A Word is not a Thing: Adrian Forty, University College London
Apéro
Saturday, June 20, 2009
09:00–12:30
Section 2: Chair Akos Moravanzsky, ETH Zurich
NEW: Marilena Kourniati, EHESS, Paris
(IN)CORPORATION: John Harwood, Oberlin College
PATTERN: Mary Lou Lobsinger, University of Toronto
LIFESTYLE: Ana Miljacky, MIT
MOBILITY: Elke Beyer, ETH Zurich
Discussion
14:00–18:00
Section 3: Chair Adrian Forty, University College London
UMWELT: Volker Welter, University of California, Santa Barbara
AMBIENTE: Carsten Ruhl, Ruhr–Universität Bochum
DEVELOPMENT: Hashim Sarkis, Harvard University
WORDS: Karin Gimmi, ETH Zurich
CULTURE: Lucia Allais, Princeton University
RELIGION: Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
Discussion
18:00
Conclusion: Paolo Scrivano, Boston University
Veranstalter: Assistenzprofessur Stalder
Datum : Freitag, 19. Juni 2009 bis Samstag, 20. Juni 2009 14:00-20:00; 9:00-19:00
Ort : Collegium Helveticum, Semper Sternwarte
Architectural historiography has tended to regard the 1950s as a period of lesser theoretical intensity, particularly when compared with the 1960s. However, debates in journals and magazines as well as reported public conferences and congresses — such as postwar CIAMS, the Team X meetings or the International Ekistics Seminar — allow for an alternative interpretation. Sources such as these offer evidence of the challenges within architectural thinking that extend beyond individual contributions.
Many of the widely debated notions in the period between 1945 and 1965 took their stances from other disciplines like sociology, anthropology, or the natural sciences thereby acquiring new values and sometimes almost undertaking autonomous lives. The particular set of words — reflecting mostly the Anglo-Saxon world — challenged the codified vocabulary of the formative years of the modern movement. Organizing a system for thinking, it thus allowed architecture and urbanism to be approached and framed differently.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine some keywords used in the postwar period and how they have been adopted, transformed and popularized by the architectural discourse of the time.
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PROGRAM
Friday, June 19, 2009
14:00
Introduction: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich/Mary Lou Lobsinger, University of Toronto
14:15–17:45
Section 1: Chair Stanislaus von Moos, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio
CORE: Eric Mumford, Washington University, St. Louis
GROWTH: Dominique Rouillard, ENSA Paris–Malaquais
PLAY: Dirk van den Heuvel, TU Delft
CONTROL: Hadas Steiner, University at Buffalo
SOFTWARE: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich
Discussion
18:15
A Word is not a Thing: Adrian Forty, University College London
Apéro
Saturday, June 20, 2009
09:00–12:30
Section 2: Chair Akos Moravanzsky, ETH Zurich
NEW: Marilena Kourniati, EHESS, Paris
(IN)CORPORATION: John Harwood, Oberlin College
PATTERN: Mary Lou Lobsinger, University of Toronto
LIFESTYLE: Ana Miljacky, MIT
MOBILITY: Elke Beyer, ETH Zurich
Discussion
14:00–18:00
Section 3: Chair Adrian Forty, University College London
UMWELT: Volker Welter, University of California, Santa Barbara
AMBIENTE: Carsten Ruhl, Ruhr–Universität Bochum
DEVELOPMENT: Hashim Sarkis, Harvard University
WORDS: Karin Gimmi, ETH Zurich
CULTURE: Lucia Allais, Princeton University
RELIGION: Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
Discussion
18:00
Conclusion: Paolo Scrivano, Boston University