e-flux Architecture is proud to announce its spring 2025 program, an event series discussing timely issues in contemporary architecture, theory, culture, and technology. The e-flux Architecture program 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 2025 program includes Liz Phillips, Joseph Zeal-Henry, Kate Yeh Chiu, Jia Yi Gu, Olga Touloumi, Jack Halberstam, Marina Otero, and David Gissen, among others.
Reclaiming Space through Sound: Liz Phillips and Joseph Zeal-Henry
February 8, 2025, 5pm
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The evening will explore sound sculptures in public spaces, with a special performance by Liz Philips and a screening of an excerpt from the film Dancing Before the Moon (2023) by Joseph Zeal-Henry.
Material Acts Launch
February 18, 2025, 7pm
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Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, co-curators and co-editors of the e-flux Architecture project Material Acts, will discuss their most recent publication and exhibition, Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design alongside Felecia Davis, Elsa Maki, Mireia Luzárraga, amongst others.
Olga Touloumi, “Assembly by Design”
March 4, 2025, 7pm
In following her book, Assembly by Design, Olga Touloumi will examine the evolution of the UN’s global interiors from constitutive imaginaries that legitimized the organization to articulation points of a global bureaucracy in a multipolar world.
Jack Halberstam, “Anarchitecture After Everything”
April 3, 2025, 7pm
In this talk Jack Halberstam will explore the meaning of trans embodiment now using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called “anarchitecture” as represented through the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Marina Otero, “When Pixels Wash Ashore”
May 15, 2025, 7pm
Marina Otero will analyze the case of Tuvalu and its plans to become a fully virtual and digitized nation. In so doing, it will delve into the inherent tension between digital custodianship and the unsustainable practices of the data storage industry and explore notions of preservation, proliferation, and decay.
David Gissen, “Function-Able: Artifacts in the Era of Design and Disability”
May 22, 2025, 7pm
“Function-Able: Artifacts in the Era of Design and Disability” explores a range of US industrial designers’ and architects’ efforts to both define physiological normality and to enhance the functioning of disabled people.