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Lucia Allais Read Bio Collapse
Lucia Allais Read Bio Collapse
Lucia Allais is an architectural historian who writes about design, politics, and technology in the modern period and on the global stage. Her first book, Designs of Destruction: the Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She has written numerous articles about the history of architectural knowledge, including “The Real and the Theoretical, 1968” and “Rendering: On Experience and Experiments.” Most recently, she co-authored, with Forrest Meggers, a critical history of the carbonation equation for reinforced concrete, titled “Concrete is 100 years Old.” Allais is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, the Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, a member of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, and an editor of the journal Grey Room.
DESIGN EARTH
Climate Inheritance book launch
Architecture Announcement
Posted: May 8, 2023
Category
Design
Subjects
Climate change
Institution
e-flux Events
Posted: May 4, 2023
Category
Architecture, War & Conflict
Subjects
Monuments
e-flux Architecture
Lecture by Lucia Allais
Architecture Announcement
Posted: May 3, 2023
Category
Lecture, Architecture
Institution
e-flux
May events
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 26, 2023
Category
Film, Music, Lecture
Subjects
Publications
Institution
e-flux Architecture
e-flux Architecture Lectures
Architecture Announcement
Posted: April 7, 2023
Category
Lecture, Architecture, Design
Institution
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
New book Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech
Architecture Announcement
Posted: October 6, 2022
Category
Architecture
Subjects
Materialism
Institution
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
Book launch and discussion: Writing Architectural History
Architecture Announcement
Posted: April 12, 2022
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Academia
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Spring 2022 semester public programs
Architecture Announcement
Posted: January 20, 2022
Category
Data & Information, Technology, Urbanism
Subjects
Climate change, Wealth & Inequality
CIVA
Institution Building
Architecture Announcement
Posted: November 6, 2021
Category
Museums, Architecture, Design
Institution
CIVA
Institution Building
Architecture Announcement
Posted: August 23, 2021
Category
Museums
Subjects
Institutional Critique
Institution
Yale School of Architecture
Spring 2021 events
Architecture Announcement
Posted: February 3, 2021
Category
Architecture, Race & Ethnicity
Subjects
Landscape
Institution
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Spring 2021 semester public programs
Architecture Announcement
Posted: January 7, 2021
Category
Architecture, Urbanism
Subjects
Black Feminism, Infrastructure
Architecture Announcement
Posted: November 20, 2020
Subjects
Exhibition Histories, Documentary, Community
Institution
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fall 2020 Semester Public Programs
Architecture Announcement
Posted: September 3, 2020
Category
Race & Ethnicity, Architecture
Princeton University School of Architecture
Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture
Architecture Announcement
Posted: December 4, 2019
Institution
Princeton University School of Architecture
Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Architecture Announcement
Posted: February 25, 2019
Institution
Superhumanity
Boris Groys, Keller Easterling, Brooke Holmes, Andrew Herscher, Mabel O. Wilson, Trevor Paglen, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Eyal Weizman, Ruha Benjamin, Tom Holert, Sylvia Lavin, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ina Blom, Lesley Lokko, Raqs Media Collective, MAP Office, Shumon Basar, Felicity D. Scott, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Tony Chakar, Rupali Gupte, Prasad Shetty, Rubén Gallo, Giuliana Bruno, Ingo Niermann, Hu Fang, Spyros Papapetros, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Juliane Rebentisch, Jack Self, Chus Martínez, Lucia Allais, Francesca Hughes, Paulo Tavares, Ahmet Öğüt, Andrés Jaque, Mark Cousins, Hito Steyerl, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Liam Young, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, Liam Gillick, Simon Denny, Stephan Trüby, Kali Stull, Etienne Turpin, Sophia Roosth, Brian Kuan Wood, Yongwoo Lee, Thomas Keenan, Catherine Malabou, Common Accounts, Chin Jungkwon, Yuk Hui, Hannah Proctor, Sungook Hong, Erik and Ronald Rietveld, Jaehee Kim, Arisa Ema, and Mark Wasiuta
Architecture Project
Posted: March 24, 2018
Category
Humanism, Posthumanism, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Design, Labor & Work, Technology
e-flux Architecture
Superhumanity: Design of the Self
Architecture Announcement
Posted: January 4, 2018
Institution
Challenging our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.”
e-flux Books
Posted: January 1, 2018
Category
Architecture, Design, Technology, Aesthetics, Labor & Work, Posthumanism
Subjects
Science, Everyday Life, Infrastructure, Police & Prisons, Futures, Housing & Real Estate, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Gentrification
Princeton University School of Architecture
ARE WE HUMAN?
Architecture Announcement
Posted: October 25, 2017
Institution
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Conference: “Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933–1966″
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 28, 2017
Institution
The James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center
NSK State Art:New York, The Impossible Return
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 1, 2017
Institution
Superhumanity
Amplified Humanity and the Architectural Criminal
Lucia Allais
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 5, 2016
Category
Human and Civil Rights, Architecture
Subjects
Terrorism, Violence, Law & Justice, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Islam, Historicity & Historiography
SUPERHUMANITY TALKS at e-flux
Lucia Allais, Rubén Gallo, Brooke Holmes, Andrés Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Spyros Papapetros, Spyros Papapetros, Martha Rosler, Mabel O. Wilson, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Nick Axel, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
e-flux Events
Posted: November 30, 2016
Category
Design, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Art Criticism
e-flux Architecture
SUPERHUMANITY TALKS
Architecture Announcement
Posted: November 23, 2016
Category
Philosophy, Design
Institution
Istanbul Design Biennial
ARE WE HUMAN? : The Design of the Species : 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 15, 2016
Category
Design, Posthumanism, Technology
Subjects
Biennials, Futures, Human - Nonhuman Relations
Institution
e-flux Architecture
Superhumanity at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial October 22–November 20, 2016
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 2, 2016
Category
Design, Architecture
Institution
Graham Foundation
Graham Foundation grantees at the Venice Biennale
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 6, 2014
Institution