Architecture After the Internet

Instructor: Leonardo Dellanoce Date & Time: Sundays, August 4, 11, 18, September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20 11 AM - 1:30 PM ET

DESCRIPTION This seminar will focus on how the introduction of computation and algorithms to architecture practice has impacted the field and how the increasing automation of the traditional responsibilities of architects liberate them from the past to think more broadly about the role of architecture in approaching the future of built environments, infrastructure and problem solving. Moderated by Leonardo Dellanoce & Francesco Degl’Innocenti, this seminar will feature seven architects and architecture theorists who have made a major contribution to architecture in the last five years. The seminar will concentrate on their specific methodologies to think about urbanism and the future of architecture.

August 4: Leonardo Dellanoce & Francesco Degl’Innocenti /// Introductory session

August 11: Arthur Röing Baer /// User-owned spatial protocols and platforms

Discussing three projects that explore the potential for outcomes more akin to public utilities or unions than privatized platform monopolies within urban mobility, trucking, and mapping.

August 18: Keller Easterling /// Medium Design

On the flip side of dominant cultural logics, you would take a hard pass on emancipatory manifestos or aspirations to be new, free, radical or right. Being right is too weak. It doesn’t work against dangerous political superbugs. But maybe there is a very ordinary and practical perspective that has simply been eclipsed—a cultural blind spot that is right before you and a terra incognita where you have already been. Maybe there is no end or modernist succession but more middle or medius. On this flip side, it may be easier to see at a different focal length. Beyond declared ideologies is a matrix or medium of activities and latent potentials—the undeclared dispositions that are something like culture’s muscle memory. Just as medium thinking inverts the typical focus on object and matrix, maybe it can offer some alternative approaches to intractable problems that outwit the most cunning superbugs.

September 22: Daniel Young ///Aureli, Borges, Young & Giroux 

To think politically about urban space we need to understand what it actually is. From a concrete discussion of the city to the endless horizon of the architectural imaging system.

September 29: Christine Bjerke /// The FX Beauties: Power in Networks

By reworking the relationship between domesticity, cultural gender politics, financial systems, and decentralized social networks, the FX Beauties demonstrate both the fragility and fortitude of gender norms in a neoliberal economy, as well as the ways that digital spaces encroach on domestic ones.

October 6: Alessandro Bava ///Architecture or Revolution

in 1922 Le Corbusier wrote in “Verse une Architecture” that ‘it is building which lies at the root of the social unrest of today’. Is it still the case? The presentation will attempt to question what an architect can do (and cannot do) in a quantified world.

October 13: Charles Stankievech ///EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

This talk will map a material history of military Early Warning Systems that established the current protocols of communication. Using a methodology of fieldwork, geopolitical and architectural realities provided the framework for analysis versus theories of the digital and the cloud.

October 20: Benedict Singleton & Marta Ferreira de Sá /// TBA

 

Image: FOAM, Tropical Mining Station, 2017

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