PAST TALKS 2023


January 24, 2023
Lighting Session

DocTalks Chairs:
Gregorio Astengo, ETH/Birkbeck College &
Demetra Vogiatzaki, Harvard
Respondent:
Olga Balaoura, Visiting Professor, University of Cyprus (UCY), Department of Architecture

Marginalized Materialities in Athens:
Modern Greece and Postcolonial Europe
Angelos Chiotis
TU Delft

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Forms and Technologies of  Italy’s Villa-mania
(1955 -1970)
Michela Bonomo
EPFL

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Circular Strategies: Egg Shell Waste as a
Potential Building Material
Esther Clifford
Independent Researcher



January 31, 2023
Lightning Session

DocTalks Chairs:
Linda Stagni, ETH &
Silvia Balzan, USI Accademia di Architettura
Respondent:
Nina Zschocke, ETH/gta

EURO—VISION:
Critical Raw Materials Unsung
FRAUD
Francisco Gallardo and Audrey Samson
Artists Duo

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A Plea for Patchy Architecture
Helene Romanik
ETH/gta

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Ordinary Architecture:
Learning from the Existing
Helena Cavalheiro
FAU-USP


14 March 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
4-6 PM CET, 11-13 AM EST


Respondent: Will Davis, Princeton


Of Seeds and Sheds:
Designing Uniformity along the Production Lines of Plantation Crops in Colonial Sumatra

Robin Hartanto Honggare
Columbia University


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Plantation Technologies:
Tracing the Histories of Palms, Weevils,
and Owls in the Oil Palm Territories of Johor State, Malaysia


Hans Hortig
ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore




21 March 2023

From “California the Beautiful”
to “Strange Menacing Beasts”:
Changing Perceptions of Southern California Nature in Two Houses by Thornton Abell

Alexander Luckmann
UC Santa Barbara

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Landscapes of Obsolescence:
Opportunities for Reimagining
The Relation between
Architecture and Nature

Daniela Pico Perez
University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University



28 March 2023

“The Steppe Civilization in a Mirror
of the European Culture”
Classical Architecture and Nation-Building
in Post-soviet Kazakhstan

Federico Marcomini
University of Florence

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Elusive Techno-Aesthetics
Paradigmatic Histories of Concrete
in Post-independence Algeria

Khaoula Hannachi 
Blida 01 Algeria
Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning
Lab ETAP



4 April 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
4-6 PM CET, 11-13 AM EST


Oscillating Spaces:
The Ice grotto on the Furkastrasse

Anneke Abhelakh
ETH Zurich

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Submerging Empire:
Water Infrastructures and Cement Grottoes
in French Aquariums

Alex Zivkovic
Columbia University




18 April 2023

Arrival Architectures

Yona Catrina Schreyer
Politecnico di Milano

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Twenty-First Century Taylorism:
Architects, Management, and the Perpetuation of the Open Office

Petra Seitz
UCL Bartlett



26 April 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

Respondent: Rafico Ruiz, CCA

Icelandic Farmhouses in the Homogenocene:
The Shift from Turf to Concrete (1895–1945)


Sofia Nannini
University of Bologna

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The Surveyor, The Diver, and The Stone

Alberto Ortega Trejo
University of Chicago




2 May 2023

Speaking of Architectural (Hi)Stories

Macarena De La Vega De Leon
University of Melbourne

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How I love the place you have no idea: Poetic Language and Sensory Stimuli in the Arab Quarter of Alexandria

Ali Reza Shahbazin
McGill University



9 May 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

CANCELED!!
Sanitary Architecture and the Battle
for the Urban Commons
in Modern Egypt


Marianne Dhenin
University of Basel

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ENI’s Disegno Africano

Giulia Scotto
USI, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio



 16 May 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

Nineteenth Century Ottoman Lighthouses:
Making of a Coastal Landscape

Esra Nalbant 
Binghamton University, NY

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Learning with the Volcanoes:
Indigenous Cosmologies and Modern Epistemologies in the Aeolian Archipelago


Marilena Mela
Vrije Universitet Amsterdam




23 May 2023

Urban Conditions on Display
The Case of the Architecture Exhibition Homeward, Contemporary Architecture in  Flanders (1999–2001)

Alice Haddad
Ghent University

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Approximations of Elements and Systems
The Element as a Project

Lera Samovich
Porto University



30 May 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

Interiors Turning Off and On
Environment Valves, Air-borne Architecture,
and Special Economic Zones in China,
1979–1989

Jia Weng
Yale University

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Deserts, Reclaimed:
On China, Territory, Agriculture
and Geopolitics

Isabelle A. Tan
Princeton University

 


6 June 2023

State Segregationist Strategies to Control Urban Informality within Brasilia’s Ideal of Modernity

Luisa G. Melo
Tulane University

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Architectural History
or History of Property?

Sonali Dhanpal
IHR / UoL



13 June 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

The Eighteenth-CenturyTeatro Regio in Turin
A Forest Perspective


Martina Motta
Politecnico di Torino

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Unimprovable Regularities
The Araucaria Araucana Tree
in the Victorian Garden


Camila Medina
LUS/ETH



20 June 2023

Architecture Culturein Socialist Yugoslavia:
Exploring the role of Kosovo’s School of
Architecture during 1978-1991

Qenresa Ajeti 
TU Munchen

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The Emergence of Governmentality
of Housing in Iran

Fatemeh Tavanaei Marvi
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran



27 June 2023

Fractures of Urban Accessibility.
Hacking as an Instrument for Decoding
the Smart City in the Age of Big Data


Laura Nica
University of Westminster

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Incorporating Geotagging and Its Semantics
in Landscape Analysis.
Textual Analysis of Urban Data through Social Media in the Neighbourhood
of “El Raval” in Barcelona

Eleni Oureilidou 
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki



26 September 2023

Sentinel Gardens

Paolo Patelli
Aarhus University, Denmark

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Alois Riegl: The Modern Cult of Monuments and its Transformations from 1903 to the Present

Nikola Beim
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Spring 2023: Fulbright Visiting Scholar, GSAPP, Columbia University



5 October 2023
DocTalks x queer space working group
Session 1

Outing, Passing, Flagging, Cruising: Queer Spatial Tactics against Commodification and Gentrification

Claude Dutson
RCA

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Othering Worlds:
Leatherspace, Dyke Community,
and the American City

Kara Plaxa
Princeton SoA



10 October 2023

Building the Economy:
Design and Construction of the US Department of Commerce Building, 1927-32

Carrie Bly
Princeton University

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Collettivo di Architettura:
Political Engagement and Professional Practice in Milan’s Periphery (195X – 198X)

Elettra Carnelli 
ETH Zurich




19 October 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 1

“At home on the chaaw salíi”:
an oral history of architecture with the Haida

Adil Mansure
Harvard University

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Ecopoetics workshop & The Architectonics of the Poem:
A Non-Standard Ecopoetics

Brent Cox
Topological Poetics Research Institute (TPRI)



23 October 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

Session 2


Reclaiming Lost Spaces:
Reckoning with Natural Disasters and Erasure
in the Built Environment

Deqah Hussein Wetzel
Columbia University

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Designing River Islands:
Recuperating Biosphere Along the Han River

Jihoi Lee
Seoul National University



31 October 2023
DocTalks x MoMA

Session 3

Turf Management, or
How To Make a Level Playing Field

Dan D’Amore
Emerson College
  
***

Black Mountain, Red Earth

Justin Hui
Independent Researcher



7 November 2023

A Silent Manifesto:
Japan Reconciling Disaster in the Field

Anastasia Gkoliomyti
Tokyo Institute of Technology

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‘The Battle for Wheat’:
A Process of Reordering and Intensification
in Spanish Grain Agriculture

Isabel Rodriguez De La Rosa
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid



21 November 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 4

Olmsted’s Dividends

Maxwell Smith-Holmes
Princeton University

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Mass Timber
in Historical Perspective:
Remediating a Resource Economy

Meg Wiessner
NYU



28 November 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 5

Imagining Transpolar Futures:
A scenario-based design approach
to settlements and infrastructures
on the Norwegian archipelago
of Svalbard

Bert De Jonghe
Harvard University

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The Modernist Chinese Garden
as Historical Object and Contemporary Critique


Y. L. Lucy Wang
Columbia University



4 December 2023

Building Labor Histories
through Records of Resistance


Dante Furioso
Princeton University

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Forced displacement, Urban Transformation,
and Architectural Metamorphosis:
The Impact of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne
on Chania's Urban Landscape


Aikaterini Karadima
Technical University of Crete



12 December 2023
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 6

“Every Holy Landscape is Shadowed by Evil:”
Ecological Imperialism in 20th Century Jerusalem 


Gili Merin
TU Wien

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The Palm Oil Controversy:
Architecture and Environmental Depletion in the Congolese Forest


Michele Tenzon
Liverpool University



21 December 2023
12pm EST/6pm CET
DocTalks x qswg
Session 2

GAY RIGHTS & GAY SITES
Places as means to account for politics and protest in the genre of memoirs
(Cleve Jones, When We Rise, 2016)


Pierre-Yves Angles
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) Paris

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Domestic Delights of Roberto Burle Marx
at Santo Antônio da Bica’s Estate

Frederico Teixeira
FAU, University of São Paulo, Brazil


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Archiving Queer Spaces in Berlin
Using LiDAR and Virtual Reality

Benjamin Busch
www.studiobusch.com 




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