e-flux Architecture is proud to announce the spring 2024 season of e-flux Architecture Lectures, a monthly event series to discuss timely issues in contemporary architecture, theory, culture, and technology. e-flux Architecture Lectures aims to bring together both leading architectural historians and theorists as well as emerging researchers and practitioners to test out and experiment with new or ongoing research. Unthemed, the series simultaneously strives to generate new scholarship while surveying the cutting edge of architectural discourse. Our spring 2024 program includes lectures by Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, Samia Henni, Anthony Acciavatti, Meredith TenHoor, and Mabel O. Wilson.
Paulo Tavares, “Earth Works (Toward a Reparation Architecture)”
February 6, 2024, 7pm
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Paulo Tavares is an architect, author, and educator. His practice dwells at the frontiers between architecture, visual cultures, and advocacy. Tavares teaches at Columbia GSAPP and at the University of Brasília, and leads the spatial advocacy agency autonoma.
Alla Vronskaya, “Modernism on the Frontier: Architecture and Regional Planning in the Interwar Soviet Union”
March 5, 2024, 7pm
Alla Vronskaya is the Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Kassel University. Her research focuses on the history of theory of modern architecture, particularly in the Soviet Union and other state-socialist countries, with the focus on architecture’s engagement with modernism’s ideals of efficiency and productivity and their effects upon citizens and nature.
Samia Henni, “Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara”
March 25, 2024, 7pm
Samia Henni is a historian of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments. Currently, she is working on an exhibition project, Performing Colonial Toxicity, and a book project, Colonial Toxicity: The French Army in the Sahara, in which she examines France’s nuclear weapons program and atomic bomb infrastructure in the Algerian Sahara. She is a visiting professor of the Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich and assistant professor at Cornell AAP.
Anthony Acciavatti, “Groundwater Earth: The World Before and After the Tubewell”
April 9, 2024, 7pm
Anthony Acciavatti works at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and the history of science and technology. He is interested in experimental forms of scholarship, pedagogy, and design afforded by humanistic inquiry. He is a principal of Somatic Collaborative in New York, a founding director of Manifest Institute, and the Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale School of Architecture.
Meredith TenHoor, “On Residues and Repair”
May 9, 2024, 7pm
Meredith TenHoor is an architectural and urban historian, and the coordinator of undergraduate architectural history and theory at Pratt. Her research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and how these design practices have produced understandings of the limits and capacities of bodies.
Mabel O. Wilson, TBA
May 30, 2024, 7pm
Mabel O. Wilson is an architectural designer and cultural historian. At Columbia University she is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab, and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies. Her research investigates space, politics and cultural memory in black America; race and modern architecture; new technologies and the social production of space; and visual culture in contemporary art, media and film.