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
***
Forms and Technologies of Italy’s Villa-mania
(1955 -1970)
Michela Bonomo
EPFL
***
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
***
A Plea for Patchy Architecture
Helene Romanik
ETH/gta
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
Deserts, Reclaimed:
On China, Territory, Agriculture
and Geopolitics
Isabelle A. Tan
Princeton University
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
***
Forms and Technologies of Italy’s Villa-mania
(1955 -1970)
Michela Bonomo
EPFL
***
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
***
A Plea for Patchy Architecture
Helene Romanik
ETH/gta
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
Deserts, Reclaimed:
On China, Territory, Agriculture
and Geopolitics
Isabelle A. Tan
Princeton University