PAST TALKS 2020
10 December 2020
Takis Zenetos’s ‘Electronic Urbanism’ and Telework
Individual Living Units vis-à-vis the Home-Office Conditions
+ CCA open session
Marianna Charitonidou
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Practices of Creative Destruction in Capital-Led Developments:
The Case of TEZ, Plovdiv
Iva Valkanova
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
3 December 2020
The Gilded Balustrade:
An Architectural Exception at the Court of Louis XIV
Fabio Gigone
University of Copenhagen/gta Institute, ETH Zurich
26 November 2020
Lysandros Kaftantzoglou: Building a Utopia
Constructing the Greek Identity in Post-Revolutionary Athens
Niki Kogkelli
NTUAthens, School of Architecture
***
Reinventing Antiquity:
Building Cities / Constructing history. Delos and Eleusis
Yannis Tournikiotis
Sorbonne University, School of History of Art and Archeology
12 November 2020
Belgrade New Wave:
Architecture and Art of the 1980s
Sara Lusic-Alavanja
HCU, Hamburg
29 October 2020
The Arrow Points Left: Visions of Social Transformation in the PFLP’s First Decade
Faiq Mari
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
22 October 2020
‘Italy’s Supreme Builder’: SGI in North America
Davide Spina
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
8 October 2020
On Airs Waters and Places:
The Construction of a Natural History of Healthcare in 20th Century Greece
Lydia Xynogala
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Hydropower and the Invention of Alpine Landscapes of Water
Sarem Sunderland
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
23 July 2020
CCA Sessions
by Matthew Critchley, gta Institute, ETH Zurich
Organic Democracy and Organic Architecture:
The Politics of Concrete in Francoist Spain
Hannah Feniak
NYU
***
Analogue Models and Cardboard Cutters
in Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1956-1959
Jia Yi Gu
UCLA
9 July 2020
Contradicting Linearity:
Mirco Ravannes’s Sketches for the École Nomade
Adrian Pöllinger
ETH Zurich
2 July 2020
Postwar Aggregates for a Communist Future:
Material Specification of Rubble 1947-1949
Adam Przywara
University of Manchester
***
Model Behavior:
Urban Scale Models and L’Affaire des Halles, from 1960-2010
Maxime Zaugg
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
25 June 2020
When and how Danes Became Architects:
A Genealogy on the Origin of Professionalism in Denmark
Angela Gigliotti
DIS Copenhagen
***
Architecture Worlds at ETH Zurich:
Transferring Collective Tacit Knowledge in Architectural Pedagogy
Hamish Lonergan
gta, ETH Zurich
18 June 2020
A Paradigmatic Case?
The Commission of Sacred Archaeology and the Architecture
of the Crypt of the Basilica of the Apostles Philip and James in Rome (1869-1881)
Jasper Van Parys
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Discussion on:
At the Border of Decolonization
by Andrew Herscher and Ana María León
Nitin Bathla
Chair of Sociology, ETH Zurich
11 June 2020
Artefacts, Practices, and Regulations of Traditional Irrigation:
The Production of Landscape Commons
Nicole de Lalouviere
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Documents, Monuments, Lineaments:
Not Writing, but Drawing with Vilém Flusser
Klaus Platzgummer
TU Berlin/Architectural Association, London
21 May 2020
Stamping Ground:
Finding a Historiography for Gavin Stamp (1948-2017)
Joshua Mardell
Research Collections Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
***
Power on Death’s Borders:
Ferdinando Fuga’s Cemetery for the Incurabili Hospital
and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Burial Reform
Fabrizio Ballabio
University of York/Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
***
On MPK20 and Hyper-Flexibility
Georgios Eftaxiopoulos
Architectural Association London/Royal College of Art
14 May 2020
Hölderlin and the Purple Words:
Translations on a Living Building
Anna Wild
The Barlett School of Architecture
***
Postcolonial Logistics
The Motel Agip of Dar es Salaam and ENI’s ‘Disegno Africano’
Giulia Scotto
Urban Studies, University of Basel
30 April 2020
Municipal Housing in London, 1919-1939:
Different Approaches and Interpretations
Christopher Metz
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
23 April 2020
Discussion on:
Introduction of the Invention of Rivers, Dilip da Cunha, 2019
Sarem Sunderland
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
***
The Work of Amancio Guedes for the Swiss Mission:
Modernist Colonial Architecture in Postcolonial Mozambique
Silvia Balzan
Social Anthropology Institute, University of Basel
5 March 2020
Of Hubris, Immorality, and Defeat: The Rome Hilton
Davide Spina
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Printing for the ‘City-Builder’:
London and the Emergence of the Building Guide (1650–1720)
Gregorio Astengo
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
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Takis Zenetos’s ‘Electronic Urbanism’ and Telework
Individual Living Units vis-à-vis the Home-Office Conditions
+ CCA open session
Marianna Charitonidou
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Practices of Creative Destruction in Capital-Led Developments:
The Case of TEZ, Plovdiv
Iva Valkanova
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
3 December 2020
The Gilded Balustrade:
An Architectural Exception at the Court of Louis XIV
Fabio Gigone
University of Copenhagen/gta Institute, ETH Zurich
26 November 2020
Lysandros Kaftantzoglou: Building a Utopia
Constructing the Greek Identity in Post-Revolutionary Athens
Niki Kogkelli
NTUAthens, School of Architecture
***
Reinventing Antiquity:
Building Cities / Constructing history. Delos and Eleusis
Yannis Tournikiotis
Sorbonne University, School of History of Art and Archeology
12 November 2020
Belgrade New Wave:
Architecture and Art of the 1980s
Sara Lusic-Alavanja
HCU, Hamburg
29 October 2020
The Arrow Points Left: Visions of Social Transformation in the PFLP’s First Decade
Faiq Mari
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
22 October 2020
‘Italy’s Supreme Builder’: SGI in North America
Davide Spina
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
8 October 2020
On Airs Waters and Places:
The Construction of a Natural History of Healthcare in 20th Century Greece
Lydia Xynogala
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Hydropower and the Invention of Alpine Landscapes of Water
Sarem Sunderland
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
23 July 2020
CCA Sessions
by Matthew Critchley, gta Institute, ETH Zurich
Organic Democracy and Organic Architecture:
The Politics of Concrete in Francoist Spain
Hannah Feniak
NYU
***
Analogue Models and Cardboard Cutters
in Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1956-1959
Jia Yi Gu
UCLA
9 July 2020
Contradicting Linearity:
Mirco Ravannes’s Sketches for the École Nomade
Adrian Pöllinger
ETH Zurich
2 July 2020
Postwar Aggregates for a Communist Future:
Material Specification of Rubble 1947-1949
Adam Przywara
University of Manchester
***
Model Behavior:
Urban Scale Models and L’Affaire des Halles, from 1960-2010
Maxime Zaugg
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
25 June 2020
When and how Danes Became Architects:
A Genealogy on the Origin of Professionalism in Denmark
Angela Gigliotti
DIS Copenhagen
***
Architecture Worlds at ETH Zurich:
Transferring Collective Tacit Knowledge in Architectural Pedagogy
Hamish Lonergan
gta, ETH Zurich
18 June 2020
A Paradigmatic Case?
The Commission of Sacred Archaeology and the Architecture
of the Crypt of the Basilica of the Apostles Philip and James in Rome (1869-1881)
Jasper Van Parys
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Discussion on:
At the Border of Decolonization
by Andrew Herscher and Ana María León
Nitin Bathla
Chair of Sociology, ETH Zurich
11 June 2020
Artefacts, Practices, and Regulations of Traditional Irrigation:
The Production of Landscape Commons
Nicole de Lalouviere
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Documents, Monuments, Lineaments:
Not Writing, but Drawing with Vilém Flusser
Klaus Platzgummer
TU Berlin/Architectural Association, London
21 May 2020
Stamping Ground:
Finding a Historiography for Gavin Stamp (1948-2017)
Joshua Mardell
Research Collections Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
***
Power on Death’s Borders:
Ferdinando Fuga’s Cemetery for the Incurabili Hospital
and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Burial Reform
Fabrizio Ballabio
University of York/Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
***
On MPK20 and Hyper-Flexibility
Georgios Eftaxiopoulos
Architectural Association London/Royal College of Art
14 May 2020
Hölderlin and the Purple Words:
Translations on a Living Building
Anna Wild
The Barlett School of Architecture
***
Postcolonial Logistics
The Motel Agip of Dar es Salaam and ENI’s ‘Disegno Africano’
Giulia Scotto
Urban Studies, University of Basel
30 April 2020
Municipal Housing in London, 1919-1939:
Different Approaches and Interpretations
Christopher Metz
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
23 April 2020
Discussion on:
Introduction of the Invention of Rivers, Dilip da Cunha, 2019
Sarem Sunderland
LUS Institute, ETH Zurich
***
The Work of Amancio Guedes for the Swiss Mission:
Modernist Colonial Architecture in Postcolonial Mozambique
Silvia Balzan
Social Anthropology Institute, University of Basel
5 March 2020
Of Hubris, Immorality, and Defeat: The Rome Hilton
Davide Spina
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Printing for the ‘City-Builder’:
London and the Emergence of the Building Guide (1650–1720)
Gregorio Astengo
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
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