PAST TALKS 2021
14 December 2021
The American Pictures of
the “Shrimps’ Vanguard”.
Filippo Cattapan
Bergische Universität Wuppertal/TACK network
Respondent: Léa-Catherine Szacka
(University of Manchester/gta, ETH Zurich)
7 December 2021
Prescribed Modernity: “Health, Hygiene and Architecture in Early Republican Turkey (1923-1950)”
Cansu Degirmencioglu
Technical University of Munich
Respondent: Lydia Xynogala (ETH Zurich)
***
Relic Steel: Distributed Memorialisation, Dispersed Remebrance
Samuel Holleran
University of Melbourne
Respondent: Fabrizio Ballabio
(University of York/Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
30 November 2021
On Marvels and Stones:
Architectural Dreams and Virtuality in Late Eighteenth-Century France
Demetra Vogiatzaki
Harvard University
Respondent: Emma Letizia Jones (Hong Kong University)
***
Botany of Red:
The Original Crimson Carpet of the West Asian Plains
Lara Mehling
ETH/LUS
Respondent: Damla Göre (ETH/gta)
23 November 2021
CERN: From Precision Architecture to Precision Territory, 1952–2018
Nils Havelka
gta, ETH Zurich
Respondent: Andreas Kalpakci (gta, ETH Zurich)
***
Two or Three Projects I Know
on Cooperative Living
Stéphanie Savio
EPFL
Respondent: Nitin Bathla (ETH Zurich)
16 November 2021
Becoming Evident: Material forms of knowing
Anna Livia Vørsel
KTH/TACK network
Respondent: Maryia Rusak (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
***
Exploring the Infra-thin: Design-led Research in XR
Paula Strunden
ABKW/TACK network
Respondent: Adam Jasper (gta, ETH Zurich)
14 November 2021
Towards a global approach on displaced villages
Moussa Belkacem
École d’archietcture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est
Respondent: Rune Frandsen (LUS, ETH Zürich)
***
The Construction of Imagination
Mariabruna Fabrizi
SOCKS & École d’archietcture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est
Respondent: Merve Cigdem Talu (McGill University, Montreal)
2 November 2021
Catholicism and Historicism: The Lost Chapels of the ‘Collegio Irlandese’ and the ‘Collegio Teutonico’ in Rome
Jasper Van Parys
gta, ETH Zurich / Swiss Institute in Rome
Erin Giffin (I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
Nora Guggenbühler (University of Zurich)
***
‘Il nostro programma’: Architettura and the Union of Fascist Architects’ Quest for Power
Ilyas Azouzi
University College London / Swiss Institute in Rome
Respondent: Silvia Balzan (University of Basel)
19 October 2021
Narratives of Sustainable Architecture: The German Forest as a Contested Territory
Claudia Nitsche
The Architectural Association
Respondent: Johanna Just (LUS, ETH Zurich)
***
Minsk: Neoliberal Shift in the Model Socialist City
Dasha Kuletskaya
RWTH Aachen / ETH Zurich, gta
Respondent: Marija Maric (Université du Luxembourg)
12 October 2021
The Inhabited Envelope, or the Past of Erosion. Enrico Tedeschi Architect-Educator-Enterpreneur and the Learning Environment of Universidad Libre De Mendoza (1960-96)
Marco Moro
University of Cagliari
Respondent: Alessandro Benetti (Politecnico di Milano, Rennes 2)
***
Fuck the Context: Understanding the Idea of Polis through Commoning
Mathilde Redouté
AA School of Architecture
Respondent: Nicole de Lalouviere (LUS, ETH)
5 October 2021
Sunny Beach: “If You Can’t Take the Kitsch, Get Out of the Kitchen”
Aneta Vasileva
UACEG – Sofia
Respondent: Michal Murawski (University College London)
***
The Time Things Went Awry: Following Stone in Contemporary Architecture
Natalia PetkovaENSA Paris-Malaquais
Respondent: Adam Przywara (The University of Manchester)
21 September 2021
Renaissance Dreamgirl: Excavating Polia From the Fragmented Landscape of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)
Zoë Cope
McGill University
Respondent: Cara Rachele (ETH Zurich)
***
“Ada Louise Huxtable, Special to the New York Times.” Reporting on Architecture for Leisure From the East, 1965-1969
Valeria Casali
Politecnico di Torino
Respondent: Damjan Kokalevski (TU Munich)
22 June 2021
Minsk - Neoliberal Shift in the Model Socialist City: Architecture and the Value of Housing
Dasha Kuletskaya
RWTH Aachen
8 June 2021
The History of Theory:
The Reception of Venturi and Scott Brown at ETH Zurich 1968–1975
Frida Grahn
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
***
A “Golden Age” of the Debate.
Criticism of Territorial Transformations on the Threshold Between High and Popular Culture
1950s-1980s
Alessandro Benetti
Université Rennes 2 – Politecnico di Milano
14 December 2021
The American Pictures of
the “Shrimps’ Vanguard”.
Filippo Cattapan
Bergische Universität Wuppertal/TACK network
Respondent: Léa-Catherine Szacka
(University of Manchester/gta, ETH Zurich)
7 December 2021
Prescribed Modernity: “Health, Hygiene and Architecture in Early Republican Turkey (1923-1950)”
Cansu Degirmencioglu
Technical University of Munich
Respondent: Lydia Xynogala (ETH Zurich)
***
Relic Steel: Distributed Memorialisation, Dispersed Remebrance
Samuel Holleran
University of Melbourne
Respondent: Fabrizio Ballabio
(University of York/Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
30 November 2021
On Marvels and Stones:
Architectural Dreams and Virtuality in Late Eighteenth-Century France
Demetra Vogiatzaki
Harvard University
Respondent: Emma Letizia Jones (Hong Kong University)
***
Botany of Red:
The Original Crimson Carpet of the West Asian Plains
Lara Mehling
ETH/LUS
Respondent: Damla Göre (ETH/gta)
23 November 2021
CERN: From Precision Architecture to Precision Territory, 1952–2018
Nils Havelka
gta, ETH Zurich
Respondent: Andreas Kalpakci (gta, ETH Zurich)
***
Two or Three Projects I Know
on Cooperative Living
Stéphanie Savio
EPFL
Respondent: Nitin Bathla (ETH Zurich)
16 November 2021
Becoming Evident: Material forms of knowing
Anna Livia Vørsel
KTH/TACK network
Respondent: Maryia Rusak (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
***
Exploring the Infra-thin: Design-led Research in XR
Paula Strunden
ABKW/TACK network
Respondent: Adam Jasper (gta, ETH Zurich)
14 November 2021
Towards a global approach on displaced villages
Moussa Belkacem
École d’archietcture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est
Respondent: Rune Frandsen (LUS, ETH Zürich)
***
The Construction of Imagination
Mariabruna Fabrizi
SOCKS & École d’archietcture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est
Respondent: Merve Cigdem Talu (McGill University, Montreal)
2 November 2021
Catholicism and Historicism: The Lost Chapels of the ‘Collegio Irlandese’ and the ‘Collegio Teutonico’ in Rome
Jasper Van Parys
gta, ETH Zurich / Swiss Institute in Rome
Erin Giffin (I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
Nora Guggenbühler (University of Zurich)
***
‘Il nostro programma’: Architettura and the Union of Fascist Architects’ Quest for Power
Ilyas Azouzi
University College London / Swiss Institute in Rome
Respondent: Silvia Balzan (University of Basel)
19 October 2021
Narratives of Sustainable Architecture: The German Forest as a Contested Territory
Claudia Nitsche
The Architectural Association
Respondent: Johanna Just (LUS, ETH Zurich)
***
Minsk: Neoliberal Shift in the Model Socialist City
Dasha Kuletskaya
RWTH Aachen / ETH Zurich, gta
Respondent: Marija Maric (Université du Luxembourg)
12 October 2021
The Inhabited Envelope, or the Past of Erosion. Enrico Tedeschi Architect-Educator-Enterpreneur and the Learning Environment of Universidad Libre De Mendoza (1960-96)
Marco Moro
University of Cagliari
Respondent: Alessandro Benetti (Politecnico di Milano, Rennes 2)
***
Fuck the Context: Understanding the Idea of Polis through Commoning
Mathilde Redouté
AA School of Architecture
Respondent: Nicole de Lalouviere (LUS, ETH)
5 October 2021
Sunny Beach: “If You Can’t Take the Kitsch, Get Out of the Kitchen”
Aneta Vasileva
UACEG – Sofia
Respondent: Michal Murawski (University College London)
***
The Time Things Went Awry: Following Stone in Contemporary Architecture
Natalia PetkovaENSA Paris-Malaquais
Respondent: Adam Przywara (The University of Manchester)
21 September 2021
Renaissance Dreamgirl: Excavating Polia From the Fragmented Landscape of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)
Zoë Cope
McGill University
Respondent: Cara Rachele (ETH Zurich)
***
“Ada Louise Huxtable, Special to the New York Times.” Reporting on Architecture for Leisure From the East, 1965-1969
Valeria Casali
Politecnico di Torino
Respondent: Damjan Kokalevski (TU Munich)
22 June 2021
Minsk - Neoliberal Shift in the Model Socialist City: Architecture and the Value of Housing
Dasha Kuletskaya
RWTH Aachen
8 June 2021
The History of Theory:
The Reception of Venturi and Scott Brown at ETH Zurich 1968–1975
Frida Grahn
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
***
A “Golden Age” of the Debate.
Criticism of Territorial Transformations on the Threshold Between High and Popular Culture
1950s-1980s
Alessandro Benetti
Université Rennes 2 – Politecnico di Milano
11 May 2021
Ephemeral Monuments, the Modern French State,
and the Parisian Public, 1789-1848
Taylor Van Doorne
University of California, Santa Barbara
5 May 2021
The House of the "Good Man":
Masculinity and Domesticity in São Paulo (1870-1920)
Pedro Beresin Schleder Ferreira
FAU, University of São Paulo
***
Design at the Impasse:
São Paulo Architecture for the 1964 Military Dictatorship
Victor Próspero
FAU, University of São Paulo
27 April 2021
Extractive Ecologies: An Earthly Writing of Space
Collaborative Adventures in Constructed Landscapes of the Upper Rhine Plain
Johanna Just
ETH Zurich, LUS
***
Unframed Edges. Remounting Old Master Paintings in Italian Modernism
Flavia Crisciotti
TU München
20 April 2021
West Berlin Merxist Architecture Groups at the turn of the 1970s
Alessandro Toti
The Bartlett School of Architecture, London
***
Giving Form to the Void. Brasilian Modern Architecture and the Archetype of the Cover
Davide Sacconi
Architectural Association, London
13 April 2021
Dividing and Representing Land: The Grid in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexico
Lola Lozano
Architectural Association, London
***
The Freelancer: Centralization and Individuation of Artistic Work in Paris, 1608–1805
Elena Palacios Carral
Architectural Association, London
30 March 2021
How Things Got Built: Moelven Brug in the 1960s
Maryia Rusak
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
16 March 2021
Urban Planning and the
Construction of Monuments in 19th Century’s New Athens
Ioanna Rammou
NTUAthens, School of Architecture
***
Athens’ Built Heritage Post-1975:
The Nostalgic Shift
Christos Kritikos
NTUAthens, School of Architecture
9 March 2021
Space and Pedagogy:
School Design and Design Teaching by Dolf Schnebli
Lucia Pennati
Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio
***
Supranational Architectures
Hannah Knoop
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2 March 2021
The ‘Cosmopolite’ at Home:
Material Histories of Domestic Living in Early Modern Istanbul (1850-1930)
Damla Göre
gta Institute, ETH Zurich
***
Modernism through the Lens of Photojournalism:
The Architecture of Brasília 1957-1977
Ciro Miguel
gta Institute, ETH Zurich