PAST TALKS 2022
22 February 2022
A Working City: Re-Description
Of a Global Operation Through Local Experience.
The Case of Trakia Economic Zone
Ina Valkanova
LUS, ETH Zurich
Respondent: Maroš Krivý (Estonian Academy of Arts / CCA)
***
The Microcosm of the City:
Typo-Morphological Insights
on the Urban Blocks by IBA Berlin 1987
Ilaria Maria Zedda
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Respondent: Alessandro Toti (Bartlett UCL)
1 March 2022
Urbanism in Tehran:
From Sacred to Radical
Asma Mehan
Leiden University
Respondent: Niloofar Rasooli (gta, ETH Zurich)
***
Başakşehir: Stories, Spaces,
and Bodies of Habitus Making
in Istanbul
Meltem Al
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Respondent: Dasha Kuletskaya (ETH, RWTH Aachen University)
8 March 2022
Architecture as/of Care: Spatial Meaning and Palliative Philosophies, 1970-2010
Fiona Kenney
McGill University
Respondent: Samuel Holleran (University of Melbourne)
***
Towards a Criticism of Architectural Theory? On the Forms of Knowledge of Bernard Tschumi
Jana Berankova
Columbia University, GSAPP
Respondent: Tommaso Listo (Politecnico di Torino)
15 March 2022
Pastoral Glaciers of the Rhône Valley:
Nineteenth century instruments for political, economic, and scientific practices
Tatiana Carbonell Guillon
ETH Zurich, gta/LUS
Respondent: Rafico Ruiz, CCA
***
Night Visions:
Electricity and Transformation of the Swiss Pastoral Nocturne
Chase Galis
ETH Zurich, gta/LUS
Respondent: Valeria Téllez Niemeye, UQAM, Université du Québec Montreal
Monday, 21 March 2022
Excavating Frontispieces:
Fossils, Ruins, Elements
Bengisu Derebaşi & Sezin Sarica
METU, Middle East Technical University
Respondent: Yara Saqfalhait, Columbia GSAPP
***
Envisioning Egypt: Stereography and Archaeology
in Early 20th Century America
Brittany N. Ellis
Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent: Iason Stathatos, Princeton SoA
29 March 2022
After the Ruin:
Towards an Architectureof Interpretation
Francelle Cane
University of Luxembourg
Respondent:
Jomy Joseph
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
***
Labor, Protocols, and Innovation
behind the Project of
the Modern Universidad de Buenos Aires (1959-Unfinished)
Marco Moro
University of Cagliari
Respondents:
Davide Sacconi
The Architectural Association
& Martin Huberman
CCA c/o Buenos Aires
5 April 2022
From Objet Trouvé to Travelling
Object: Geographies of The Story of Art
Luca Bertoldi
Free University of Bozen
Respondent:
Matthew Critchley
ETH Zurich
***
The Byggesager Dossier at Det Danske Institut I Rom:
How Losses in Translation Were Able to Retain Plurality
Angela Gigliotti
Arkitektskolen Aarhus/ETH Zurich
Respondent:
Flavia Crisciotti
TU München
12 April 2022
Shining Steel Tempered in the Fire:
The Architecture of the Factory,
Manchester 1760-1915
George Jepson
The Architectural Association
Respondent:
Aleksandr Bierig
Harvard GSD
***
Modelling Socialist Society:
Cybernetics Hits East German Urban Theory
Lea Marie Nienhoff
HEAD Genève/University of Basel
Respondent:
Nikolay Erofeev
University of Basel
20 April 2022
On Toys and the Flying Problem:
Play, Desire, and Utility in 19th Century America
Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent:
Nikos Magouliotis
ETH Zurich/gta
***
A Skin that Leaks
Katarzyna Balug
Harvard GSD
Respondent:
Evangelos Kotsioris
Museum of Modern Art in New York
& Stelios Giamarelos
Bartlett School of Architecture
26 April 2022
Moral and Political Implications
of Urbanism
Vladan Klement
Czech Technical University, Prague
Respondent:
Emma Arnold
University of Oslo
***
Vanishing Lines: Exposing, Recording,
and Processing Verticality in Los Angeles
Marina Montresor
ETH Zurich
Respondent:
Shane Reiner-Roth
UCLA
3 May 2022
Chaired by Natália Peťková
ENSA Paris-Malaquais
Anthropology and Architectural (Re)presentations
Dominik Hoehn
Cambridge University
Respondent:
Angela Gigliotti
Det Danske Institut i Rom
***
How to Make Ambiguous Architecture With Words
Carla Frick-Cloupet
ENSA St.Etienne
Respondent:
Vikki Addona
McGill
10 May 2022
'Captains of Industry' and the Metropolitan Nexus: Private Mass Housing Development in Twentieth-Century Belgium
Laurence Heindryckx
Ghent University
Respondent:
Sarah Melsens
University of Antwerp
***
Brussels, a Speculative Playground for British Developers
Martin Dumont
Ghent University
Respondent:
Alistair Kefford
Leiden University
17 May 2022
The Infrastructure of Migration Management: An Architectural Lens on the Implementation of the EU "Hotspot Approach" in Greece
Alaa Dia
University of Basel
Respondent:
Giulia Scotto
University of Basel
***
Fuelling the Developmental State. Sidama’s Dichtomic Mobility Regimes
Thomas Betschart
University of Basel
Respondent:
Tobias Hagmann
Roskilde University
24 May 2022
Domesticating Solar Energy: Architecture, Decolonization and Environmentalism in Postwar France, 1945-1986
Paul Bouet
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est
Respondent:
Alessandro Benetti
Université Rennes 2/Politecnico di Milano
***
Adaptation Practices of Rural-Urban Migrants within Residential Environments of African Cities: The Case of Tshwane
Tinashe Dube
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Respondent:
Huda Tayob
University of Manchester
31 May 2022
Demystifying the Harem:
Domestic Interiors, Women, and Sociability
in the Late-Ottoman Capital’s Printed Media
Damla Göre
ETH Zurich/gta
Respondent:
Lydia Harrington
(Boston University)
***
A Chair, A Woman,
A Different Story
Niloofar Rasooli
ETH Zurich/gta
Respondent:
Mira Xenia Schwerda
(University of Edinburgh)
13 September 2022
Diaspora Kibbutzim:
Redefining the Zionist Settlement Movement as an Expanding and Transnational Spatial Network
Reut Yarnitsky
UPenn Architecture
Respondent:
Stephanie Savio, EPFL
***
Urban-Rural Modernization of Italian-Colonial Libya: Thoughts from the ‘Sack of Civility’ and the ‘Barbaric Transmission of [Design] Culture’ [Now]
Amalie Elfallah
Politecnico di Milano + Fulbright
Respondent:
Lahbib El Moumni, ETH/gta
20 September 2022
Urban ‘Re’-Development and the Unfulfilled Promise of Formal Housing: Embodied Infrastructural Realities
of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India
Naomi Hazarika
University of Colorado at Boulder
Respondent:
Saeed Ahmad, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
***
Dissenters Unfettered:
“TUMU”and the Making of Contemporary Chinese Architecture in the Sino-German Exhibitionary Contact Zone
Dija Chen
University of Virginia
Respondent:
Liyang Ding, Marywood University
27 September 2022
The Biopolitics of Habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the Industrial Cities and Their Productive Habitats
Anna Karla De Almeida Santos
EPFL
Respondent:
Paolo Scrivano, Politecnico di Milano
***
From the Garden to the Beach!
Tracing the Palm Tree in the Attic Landscape
Haris Makedonopoulou
NTU Athens
Respondent:
Metaxia Markaki, ETH Zurich
22 February 2022
A Working City: Re-Description
Of a Global Operation Through Local Experience.
The Case of Trakia Economic Zone
Ina Valkanova
LUS, ETH Zurich
Respondent: Maroš Krivý (Estonian Academy of Arts / CCA)
***
The Microcosm of the City:
Typo-Morphological Insights
on the Urban Blocks by IBA Berlin 1987
Ilaria Maria Zedda
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Respondent: Alessandro Toti (Bartlett UCL)
1 March 2022
Urbanism in Tehran:
From Sacred to Radical
Asma Mehan
Leiden University
Respondent: Niloofar Rasooli (gta, ETH Zurich)
***
Başakşehir: Stories, Spaces,
and Bodies of Habitus Making
in Istanbul
Meltem Al
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Respondent: Dasha Kuletskaya (ETH, RWTH Aachen University)
8 March 2022
Architecture as/of Care: Spatial Meaning and Palliative Philosophies, 1970-2010
Fiona Kenney
McGill University
Respondent: Samuel Holleran (University of Melbourne)
***
Towards a Criticism of Architectural Theory? On the Forms of Knowledge of Bernard Tschumi
Jana Berankova
Columbia University, GSAPP
Respondent: Tommaso Listo (Politecnico di Torino)
15 March 2022
Pastoral Glaciers of the Rhône Valley:
Nineteenth century instruments for political, economic, and scientific practices
Tatiana Carbonell Guillon
ETH Zurich, gta/LUS
Respondent: Rafico Ruiz, CCA
***
Night Visions:
Electricity and Transformation of the Swiss Pastoral Nocturne
Chase Galis
ETH Zurich, gta/LUS
Respondent: Valeria Téllez Niemeye, UQAM, Université du Québec Montreal
Monday, 21 March 2022
Excavating Frontispieces:
Fossils, Ruins, Elements
Bengisu Derebaşi & Sezin Sarica
METU, Middle East Technical University
Respondent: Yara Saqfalhait, Columbia GSAPP
***
Envisioning Egypt: Stereography and Archaeology
in Early 20th Century America
Brittany N. Ellis
Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture
History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent: Iason Stathatos, Princeton SoA
29 March 2022
After the Ruin:
Towards an Architectureof Interpretation
Francelle Cane
University of Luxembourg
Respondent:
Jomy Joseph
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
***
Labor, Protocols, and Innovation
behind the Project of
the Modern Universidad de Buenos Aires (1959-Unfinished)
Marco Moro
University of Cagliari
Respondents:
Davide Sacconi
The Architectural Association
& Martin Huberman
CCA c/o Buenos Aires
5 April 2022
From Objet Trouvé to Travelling
Object: Geographies of The Story of Art
Luca Bertoldi
Free University of Bozen
Respondent:
Matthew Critchley
ETH Zurich
***
The Byggesager Dossier at Det Danske Institut I Rom:
How Losses in Translation Were Able to Retain Plurality
Angela Gigliotti
Arkitektskolen Aarhus/ETH Zurich
Respondent:
Flavia Crisciotti
TU München
12 April 2022
Shining Steel Tempered in the Fire:
The Architecture of the Factory,
Manchester 1760-1915
George Jepson
The Architectural Association
Respondent:
Aleksandr Bierig
Harvard GSD
***
Modelling Socialist Society:
Cybernetics Hits East German Urban Theory
Lea Marie Nienhoff
HEAD Genève/University of Basel
Respondent:
Nikolay Erofeev
University of Basel
20 April 2022
On Toys and the Flying Problem:
Play, Desire, and Utility in 19th Century America
Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent:
Nikos Magouliotis
ETH Zurich/gta
***
A Skin that Leaks
Katarzyna Balug
Harvard GSD
Respondent:
Evangelos Kotsioris
Museum of Modern Art in New York
& Stelios Giamarelos
Bartlett School of Architecture
26 April 2022
Moral and Political Implications
of Urbanism
Vladan Klement
Czech Technical University, Prague
Respondent:
Emma Arnold
University of Oslo
***
Vanishing Lines: Exposing, Recording,
and Processing Verticality in Los Angeles
Marina Montresor
ETH Zurich
Respondent:
Shane Reiner-Roth
UCLA
3 May 2022
Chaired by Natália Peťková
ENSA Paris-Malaquais
Anthropology and Architectural (Re)presentations
Dominik Hoehn
Cambridge University
Respondent:
Angela Gigliotti
Det Danske Institut i Rom
***
How to Make Ambiguous Architecture With Words
Carla Frick-Cloupet
ENSA St.Etienne
Respondent:
Vikki Addona
McGill
10 May 2022
'Captains of Industry' and the Metropolitan Nexus: Private Mass Housing Development in Twentieth-Century Belgium
Laurence Heindryckx
Ghent University
Respondent:
Sarah Melsens
University of Antwerp
***
Brussels, a Speculative Playground for British Developers
Martin Dumont
Ghent University
Respondent:
Alistair Kefford
Leiden University
17 May 2022
The Infrastructure of Migration Management: An Architectural Lens on the Implementation of the EU "Hotspot Approach" in Greece
Alaa Dia
University of Basel
Respondent:
Giulia Scotto
University of Basel
***
Fuelling the Developmental State. Sidama’s Dichtomic Mobility Regimes
Thomas Betschart
University of Basel
Respondent:
Tobias Hagmann
Roskilde University
24 May 2022
Domesticating Solar Energy: Architecture, Decolonization and Environmentalism in Postwar France, 1945-1986
Paul Bouet
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est
Respondent:
Alessandro Benetti
Université Rennes 2/Politecnico di Milano
***
Adaptation Practices of Rural-Urban Migrants within Residential Environments of African Cities: The Case of Tshwane
Tinashe Dube
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Respondent:
Huda Tayob
University of Manchester
31 May 2022
Demystifying the Harem:
Domestic Interiors, Women, and Sociability
in the Late-Ottoman Capital’s Printed Media
Damla Göre
ETH Zurich/gta
Respondent:
Lydia Harrington
(Boston University)
***
A Chair, A Woman,
A Different Story
Niloofar Rasooli
ETH Zurich/gta
Respondent:
Mira Xenia Schwerda
(University of Edinburgh)
13 September 2022
Diaspora Kibbutzim:
Redefining the Zionist Settlement Movement as an Expanding and Transnational Spatial Network
Reut Yarnitsky
UPenn Architecture
Respondent:
Stephanie Savio, EPFL
***
Urban-Rural Modernization of Italian-Colonial Libya: Thoughts from the ‘Sack of Civility’ and the ‘Barbaric Transmission of [Design] Culture’ [Now]
Amalie Elfallah
Politecnico di Milano + Fulbright
Respondent:
Lahbib El Moumni, ETH/gta
20 September 2022
Urban ‘Re’-Development and the Unfulfilled Promise of Formal Housing: Embodied Infrastructural Realities
of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India
Naomi Hazarika
University of Colorado at Boulder
Respondent:
Saeed Ahmad, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
***
Dissenters Unfettered:
“TUMU”and the Making of Contemporary Chinese Architecture in the Sino-German Exhibitionary Contact Zone
Dija Chen
University of Virginia
Respondent:
Liyang Ding, Marywood University
27 September 2022
The Biopolitics of Habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the Industrial Cities and Their Productive Habitats
Anna Karla De Almeida Santos
EPFL
Respondent:
Paolo Scrivano, Politecnico di Milano
***
From the Garden to the Beach!
Tracing the Palm Tree in the Attic Landscape
Haris Makedonopoulou
NTU Athens
Respondent:
Metaxia Markaki, ETH Zurich