Fall 2020 online lecture series

In our autumn talks on “Materialisms”, we will discuss issues of space and its material articulations as well as phenomena of immaterialities, be it through emergent fields of political, social, digital or ecological changes—or simply by questioning architecture’s traditional position within nature and culture.          
                                                                                                                             
Evening Talk: New Material Histories of Architecture
Kim Förster, Sarah Nichols
Thursday, September 24, 7-8:30pm

Kim Förster, Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and Sarah Nichols, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas, will be discussing what the history of architecture does look like when the extended trajectories of building materials, are made the subject of research, writing, and pedagogy. Building architecture requires materials. This truism links architecture to its hinterlands—forests, quarries, mines, oil wells, laboratories, production plants, transport and storage infrastructure—as well as to the businesses, knowledge, and labor that turn matter into materials and materials into buildings.
 

Evening Talk: Materialisms in 2038
Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Nikolaus Hirsch, Christopher Roth, Antje Stahl
October 22, 7-8:30pm

The curator’s contribution to the german pavillon of this year’s Architecture Biennial take us into the year of 2038, we will have a look back into the past. By then we have no problems anymore and instead of asking questions, the year of 2038 will be able to give answers—also to our current material crisis.
 

Lunch Talk: Immaterialities
Tibor Joanelly, Writer and Journalist, Zurich & Taishin Shiozaki, Architect and Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology
November 26, 2020, 12-1:30pm

Taishin Shiozaki, Associate Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology is a practicing architect and theorist, based in Tokyo, who assisted Kazuo Shinohara on a series of design projects between 2003 and 2006. He was also co-editor of the monographic issue “Kazuo Shinohara” from JA (no. 93).  Tibor Joanelly is an editor at werk, bauen + wohnen in Zurich, and will be publishing the book “Shinoharistics - An Essay about a House” this coming october. Both will be talking on Kazuo Shinohara’s work and thoughts on immaterialities.

All lectures will take place virtually, are free and open to the public and require registration, and all times are listed in Swiss Time. Please visit the Architekturagenda’s events calendar for more information, including registration details: www.architekturagenda.ch