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
6 June 2023
State Segregationist Strategies to Control Urban Informality within Brasilia’s Ideal of Modernity
Luisa G. Melo
Tulane University
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
‘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
***
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
***
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
***
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
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
6 June 2023
State Segregationist Strategies to Control Urban Informality within Brasilia’s Ideal of Modernity
Luisa G. Melo
Tulane University
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
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
***
‘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
***
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
***
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
***
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