Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts
26.8.10
Articulated Structures
Elina Karanastasi discussed different models of hierarchies: networks, rules, framework... she closed the presentation contemplating on the concept of 'bankruptcy', negating its pessimistic content.
24.8.10
3 afternoon talks during the workshop
A. Antonas, Archaeologies of the Given
Elina Karanastasi, Articulated Configurations of the Trivial and the Unusable
Polyxeni Mantzou, Architecture's Bancus Ruptus or Route
22.8.10
Architecture to Construct Realities Beyond Buildings
Presentation by Ethel Baraona Pohl [dpr-barcelona] at the workshop The Bankruptcy of Architecture:
“Who says we cannot know the future? We can, but it always a matter of interpretation, that is, of imagination. If that seems obvious, I should point out something not so obvious: that knowing the present is also always an act of imagination.”
“Who says we cannot know the future? We can, but it always a matter of interpretation, that is, of imagination. If that seems obvious, I should point out something not so obvious: that knowing the present is also always an act of imagination.”
-Lebbeus Woods
20.8.10
Elias Konstantopoulos lecture
Elias Konstantopoulos lecture about "Re-think / Re-design" brings forward the notion of 'adhocism' introduced by Charles Jencks. See the definition of this forgotten term:
Notions of ‘Adhocism’ were coined by architectural designer, theorist, and sometime designer Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver in their book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (1972). They considered the ways in which designers could take immediate action through the use of readily available components in ways that had never been conceived in their original design. Hippy communities in the United States had explored some of these ideas in the 1960s, as in Drop City, where dome dwellings were constructed from car roofs bought cheaply from scrapyards, reusing materials abandoned by the consumer society. Some positive aspects of this outlook were to be found in The Whole Earth Catalogue of 1968, an encyclopaedia of alternative ways of living and suppliers of the means of doing so.
19.8.10
Y.Tzirtzilakis interception on ArchiZoom
Yorgos Tzirtzilakis presented the work of ArchiZoom in the 'radical' italian architecture context of 1960-70s. His presentation -an interception, as he called it- touched on the issue of dealing with 'neutral', 'typical' and 'indifferent' architecture. These concepts were discussed earlier in the workshop after the visit to the OTE building in Chania. Tzirtzilakis presentation aimed to provoke a positive reaction to the building and indifferent or banal architecture while insisting on the 'liberating' effects of non-figurative architecture. The last remark brought a refreshing discussion among the participants on the critical context of the work of ArchiZoom and the relation between politics and architecture.
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