Architecture Lecture Series
Date
Thursday, October5, 2017, 6.00 p.m.
Auditorium, University of Liechtenstein
Content
Emmanuel Alloa
"The Promise of Dematerialization. On Glass Architecture"
Glass is a material of paradoxes; in that sense, it is extremely resistant and brittle at the same time. It embodies the contradiction, at the same time, of building material and translucent to light. Through the history of glass architecture, the promise of a dematerialized matter can be recounted. From the Gothic cathedral to Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in 1851, from the expressionist dreams of Bruno Taut to Mies van der Rohe, from Soviet utopian positions to the international style of American style, glass represents the promise of complete transparency. A particularly interesting chapter in this regard is Sergey Eisenstein's never-before-seen film project Glass House
The lecture will be held in english.
CV
Emmanuel Alloa is a research leader in philosophy at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen where he taught from 2012 to 2016 as an assistant professor of cultural philosophy. Guest professorships took him to Brazil, Mexico, France and Austria. He was awarded with the Latsis Prize 2016 for his work. Most recent release: Resistance of the Sensible World. An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (New York: Fordham 2017)
Lecture Series of the Institute for Architecture and Planning WS 17/18 and SS 18
Transparency is a key feature of today's society. But is transparency also a current topic in architecture and urban planning? Is the current trend towards large-scale glazed buildings merely an expression of a new material or an artistic response to social changes? Does transparency in buildings ultimately result in more visible processes within a building or is it only a characterisation of the materiality?
The Institute for Architecture and Planning at the University of Liechtenstein will conduct a lecture series from autumn 2017 onwards for one year. In the series, different disciplinary perspectives will deal with the literary, the transposed and the organisational understanding of transparency; taking into account the perspectives of architecture, landscape architecture, conceptual design, perception-oriented urban research and participatory urban development.
Information Contact
Dr. Anne Brandl
Dr. Clarissa Rhomberg
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