Infrastructures from Above and Below - Lecture Series in Urban Studies
Diese Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt!
7 PM
"Charting the environment: Some notes on arrows"
by Laurent Stalder, Chair of the Theory of Architecture, ETH, Zürich
The concept of environment, that would become in the 1950s a basic category of contemporary thought, would find its expression in the architectural debate in notions like habitat (CIAM), cluster (Alison & Peter Smithson) or environment (Reyner Banham) through which the relation of man with his natural, social or artificial environment was to be studied. It provoked a shift from an interest for the architectural form, to that of the environment and its different media flowing, circulating or running through or around the building. But how did theses debates transform architectural design? How did this new interest for the environment inform the architectural practice? And how was it to be represented? The talk proposes to address these issues through the work of the British architect James Stirling.
Laurent Stalder is Chair of the Theory of Architecture at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH Zürich. The main focus of his research and publications is the history and theory of architecture from the 19th to the 21st centuries where it intersects with the history of technology. His most recent publications include Hermann Muthesius: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf (2008), Valerio Olgiati (2008), Der Schwellenatlas (2009), and God & Co. François Dallegret: Beyond the Bubble (2011). His articles have been published in various journals, including AA Files, Arch+, Grey Room, the Journal of Architecture, Werk, Bauen & Wohnen and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.
The lecture series “Infrastructure from Above and Below” is organised by Urban Studies at the University of Basel in collaboration with the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, and with generous support by the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel.
Regenzzimmer 111, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1
Language: English
further lectures:
02.05.2017, 7 PM, Nikhil Anand
Regenzzimmer 111, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1
30.05.2017, 7 PM, Mpho Matsipa, Studio X Johannesburg , Columbia University
Regenzzimmer 111, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1
