Open seminar
Date: Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 6:30pm followed by drinks at 8:30pm
Place: 33 First floor front and back, Architectural Association, London
Open seminar on architectural theory in conjunction with the launch of special issues of the book and the journal both titled This Thing Called Theory, an outcome of the 12th international conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) ‘This Thing Called Theory’, held in November 2015 at the Leeds School of Architecture.
Proposed schedule:
18:30: Welcome and Introduction
Simos Yannas (AA)
Research and research degrees at the AA
18:35: AHRA presentation
Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham and AHRA co-founder)
Research and academic networks
18:40: Book series presentation
Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham and Routledge Critiques series editor)
Critiques, critical studies in architectural humanities
18:45: Journal presentation
Diana Periton (Architecture & Culture)
Architecture & Culture, what architecture might be and what it can do
18:50: Conference, book and journal presentation
Teresa Stoppani (Leeds Beckett University)
Doreen Bernath (AA and Leeds Beckett University)
This Thing Called Theory
19:00: Architecture and History
Marco De Michelis (Bocconi University Milan and IUAV Venice), The Death of Architecture
19:20: Architecture and Philosophy
Mark Cousins (AA), In Praise of Betrayal
19:40: Architecture and Politics
Pippo Ciorra (University of Camerino and MAXXI Architettura, Rome), Curating Architecture and the (Un)political
20:00: Discussion
Respondents, Marina Lathouri (AA) and Douglas Spencer (AA)
Moderators, Doreen Bernath and Teresa Stoppani
20:30 – 21:30
This Thing called Theory
Book and journal launch and drink reception
Further information is available:
On the conference This Thing Called Theory
http://www.thisthingcalledtheo
On the book This Thing Called Theory
Edited by Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George Themistokleous
Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2016
On the journal ‘This Thing Called Theory’
Architecture & Culture Volume 4 Issue 3 (2016)
edited by Doreen Bernath and Braden Engel
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc
Image: Preview of the cover ‘ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE,’ VOLUME FOUR, ISSUE THREE 11/2016, Routledge.
