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GRACE OF INTENTION: PHOTOGRAPHY, ARCHITECTURE AND THE MONUMENT

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Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument Oct 15 — Dec 23, 2015

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, 600 S MICHIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60605

Opening Reception: Grace of Intention

Image credit: Jan Kempenaers, Spomenik #3 (Kosmaj), 2006

Monuments are deliberate gestures – objects or structures created to commemorate an event, person or era. Their meaning is usually imposed, and they often serve as vehicles for the communication of civic qualities like valor and duty, or to underscore a foundational political narrative. But their meaning can transform, changing over time as the relevance of their symbolism ebbs and flows due to social and political shifts. Like monuments, architecture and photography are also inflected with a grace of intention, and both have the ability to commemorate or represent a nation, event, time or place. Like monuments, their meaning often shifts due to time and context. Furthermore, the act of photographing monuments and buildings transforms them, sometimes revealing some of their original qualities and more closely evoking the responses that they were originally intended to have.

Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument examines the work of eight international artists, some of whose work addresses actual monuments, some whom look at architecture and its relationship to memory and how its importance and symbolism can shift over time, and others approach the idea of the future monument. 

Sound Acts in Victoria Square @newtransits

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Η διπλωματική εργασία της Αγγελικής Διακρούση Ενδυνάμωση της φωνής του φύλου: Ηχητικές πράξεις στην Πλατεία Βικτωρίας, στο πολύ ενδιαφέρον newtransits, τεύχος 5, Οκτώβριος 2015.

(re:)Thinking the Street Urban Encounters Conference 2015

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(re:)Thinking the Street

Diego Ferrari, Urban Habitat II Berlin 2013. Courtesy of the artist.
Diego Ferrari, Urban Habitat II Berlin 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

Urban Encounters is pleased to announce its eighth annual conference focusing on street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ might be experienced, imagined, represented, performed and archived; Urban Encounters hosts a number of international artists, photographers, urbanists and academics concerned with theorizing, researching and creating visual work around street spaces.

The conference panels re-examine what is traditionally understood by the genre of ‘street photography’, an increasingly popular but also highly contentious and at times, problematic set of practices. Speakers discuss issues relating to aesthetics; the politics and ethics of street-work; notions of locality and flow; performativity, mediation and the disruption of ‘authenticity’.

This year’s conference opens on Friday 23 October, 18.30–20.00 with a keynote address by London based artist Rut Blees Luxemburg, whose large-scale photographic works explore the public spaces of the city. The keynote event is followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the opening of this year’s Urban Photo Fest. The keynote on Saturday 24 October is given by internationally acclaimed sociologist Saskia Sassen. Further speakers include Mitra Tabrizian, Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Vanley Burke  and Charlie Phillips.  The second day of the conference also includes a series of breakout seminars designed to encourage audience participation within research, theory and visual practice, which aim to build upon the conference presentations and audience discussions. Only one seminar can be selected. Please book for the whole conference by following the link on your chosen seminar.

Urban Encounters is part of the five day Urban Photo Fest programme supported by Openvisor, the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, Kingston University and Photofusion.

Students collaborate to improve the conditions for EU migrants

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[2015-09-23] Students at Umeå School of Architecture have, in connection with the start of the term, collaborated within the framework of a workshop entitled “Common Space: Improving Living Conditions”. The aim has been to research, discuss, map, and then to formulate concrete ideas on how the situation for vulnerable EU migrants in Umeå could be improved.

 

 

 

Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81

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Hilla Becher, the German photographer who, with her husband, Bernd, meticulously documented coal mines, steel mills and other features of the industrial landscape, straddling the worlds of archival documentation and conceptual art, died on Saturday in Düsseldorf. She was 81.

Hilla Becher posing next to her photo series “Kühltürme” (Cooling towers) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, in 2002. David Ebener/European Pressphoto Agency

Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited

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Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited

By RACHEL DONADIOJULY 12, 2015

PARIS — Was the paradigm-changing architect known as Le Corbusier a fascist-leaning ideologue whose plans for garden cities were inspired by totalitarian ideals, or a humanist who wanted to improve people’s living conditions — a political naïf who, like many architects, was eager to work with almost any regime that would let him build?

Architecture Exchange: How is Architecture Political?

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Architecture Exchange: How is Architecture Political?

16 January 2015

Featuring leading theorists in the field, the symposium demonstrated the vital importance of architecture’s political dimension

How is architecture political? That was the question being asked at the Architecture Exchange’s second annual symposium, this year held at the Architectural Association. The respondents, each of whom made a half-hour presentation on the subject, included Reinhold Martin (Director of the Buell Center in New York), Pier Vittorio Aureli (cofounder of Dogma and teacher at the AA), Ines Weizman (specialist in Soviet-era dissident architecture) and Sarah Whiting (Dean of Rice Architecture School, Houston). However, the star of the event was undoubtedly Chantal Mouffe, one of the world’s leading political theorists (as demonstrated by book titles like Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, On the Political and The Return of the Political).

“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue Two

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Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue Two

More than ever, architects today are called upon to build gestural landmarks and grandiose signature buildings. But architecture was never only about building. It is also about the flows of people, information, and resources that shape space. Today, the practice of architecture often confronts situations where these flows cannot be reduced to modernist managerial approaches to systematizing, structuring, and mastering the potentials of space. 

 

 

Στο Όνομα του Le Corbusier / Ομαδική έκθεση

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“Στο Όνομα του Le Corbusier”
Ομαδική έκθεση εικαστικών

εγκαίνια: Τρίτη 6 Οκτωβρίου στις 19:30

Οικία Σπητέρη/Προβελέγγιου, οδός Κυκλάδων 8

6 Οκτωβρίου – 8 Νοεμβρίου 2015
Κ. Βελώνης & Λ. Λυκουριώτη, Φ. Γιαννίση & Ζ. Κοτιώνης, Γ. Γρηγοριάδης, Γ. Γυπαράκης, Θ. Ιωαννίδου, Π. Κούρος, Β. Ξένου, Μ. Παπαδημητρίου, Α. Ψυχούλης.
Επιμέλεια: Παναγιώτης Τουρνικιώτης, Φάνης Καφαντάρης.
Διοργάνωση: Σχολή Αρχιτεκτόνων ΕΜΠ & Workshop-S Διονύσης Σοτοβίκης

http://lecorbusier.arch.ntua.gr/inthename

greek INVITATION_ARCH NTUA_STO ONOMA TOU LE CORBUSIER

 

READING ARCHITECTURE

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READING ARCHITECTUREΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΑ

 

A symposium organized by the History and Theory Program, School of Architecture, McGill Universityand hosted at Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece under the auspices of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture

 

 

PROGRAM

Τuesday 16th June 2015 :

The symposium will start with a round-table conversation on the subject matter, run by Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez, founding director of the History and Theory Program of the School of Architecture (McGill University), Angeliki Sioli and Yoonchun Jung. The conversation’s main interlocutors, Caroline Dionne, Phoebe Giannisi, Klaske Havik, Mari Lending, Franco Pisani and David Spurr will offer their own insights on the topic, raise and answer questions and open up a dialogue with the attendants. Doing justice to a symposium’s very meaning, a convivial dinner will conclude the event’s first day.

Two days of paper sessions chaired by the six guests will follow, in which all the participants will talk about their work in detail, discuss their points of view and exchange ideas.

 

Wednesday 17th June 2015 :

Session 1 (9:30am – 11:00am): Reading everyday (un)familiar places
(Chair: Phoebe Giannisi, Responder: Yoonchun Jung)

Architecture Drawn Out of Bruno Schulz’s Poetic Prose
Anca Matyiku (School of Architecture, McGill University)

Reading Boredom in the Space of Architecture: ‘The Minotaur or The Stop in Oran’ by Albert Camus
Christian Parreno (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

Thresholds of the familiar: a discussion of Axolotl and Blow-Up by Julio Cortázar
Micah Rutenberg (School of Architecture, Woodbury University)

 

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 (11:30am – 1:00pm): Reading Urban Lives
(Chair: Klaske Havik, Responder: Panos Leventis, Hammons School of Architecture, Drury University)

“A Brilliant Invention:” Urban Spaces in the Fiction of Ian McEwan and Graham Swift
Anastasia Logotheti (DEREE, The American College of Greece)

Traces of Christiania. A topographical reading of Knut Hamsun´s Hunger
Mathilde Simonsen Dahl (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

Writing the City: Søren Kierkegaard’s Urban Walks in Copenhagen
Henriette Steiner (Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen)

 

Lunch Break

 

Session 3 (2:30pm – 4:30pm): Reading on design and pedagogy
(Chair: Franco Pisani, Responder: Louise Pelletier, School of Design, University of Quebec in Montreal)

The Gesture of Drawing in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince
Jason Crow (School of Architecture, Louisiana State University)

Walking and Archiving: Locus Solus in Elephant and Castle.
Panos Kouros (Department of Architecture, University of Patras)

Melvilla: An Underline Reading
Marc Neveu (School of Architecture, Woodbury University)

Conceptual Conjunctions Between Literature and Architecture: Philippe Hamon’s Hypothesis and its Consequences for Spatial Design
Nikolaos Ion Terzoglou (School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens)

 

Thursday 18th June 2015 :

Session 1 (9:30am – 11:00am): Reading the other-wordly
(Chair: Caroline Dionne, Responder: Alberto Pérez-Gómez)

Perpetual Motion Machine: Paul Scheerbart’s Fantastic Story of Futuristic Architectural Experiences
Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci (Department of Architecture, Kadir Has University)

Lost and Longing: The Sense of Space in E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
Susana Oliveira (School of Architecture, University of Lisbon)

Elliptical Architecture: The Unsaid and the Incomplete as conditions for Architectural Intrigue within the Literary Text
Esteban Restrepo Restrepo (Université Paris 8/ École Nationale Supérieure d´Architecture de Paris La Villette)

 

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 (11:30am – 1:00pm): Reading on historical perspectives
(Chair: Mari Lending, Responder: Angeliki Sioli)

Generic Subversions
Lily Chi (School of Architecture, Cornell University)

W.G.Sebald’s Austerlitz: Architecture as a Bridge between the Lost Past and the Present
Rumiko Handa (College of Architecture, University of Nebraska)

Enchantment and Entrapment: The Architecture of Poe
Lisa Landrum (Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba)

 

Lunch Break

 

Session 3 (2:30pm – 4:30pm): Reading urban redefinitions
(Chair: David Spurr, Responder: Christos Kakalis, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh)

From text to place: How Orhan Pamuk changed Istanbul?
Figen Kivilcim (Department of Architecture, Anadolu University)

Cognitive maps and topographical narrations
Fabiano Micocci (Independent Researcher)

Building the Socialist Paper City: A Study of Interwar Sci-Fi Literature in the USSR.
Stavros Alifragkis (Hellenic Open University / Hellenic Army Academy)

Modern Thessaloniki: Topographies of change and memory
Eleni Bastea (School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico)