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Structural Instabilities: History, Environment, and Risk in Architecture
Thursday, April 5, 2018 — Friday, April 6, 2018Add to Calendar
Meyerson Hall
Lower Gallery
210 South 34th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This symposium will explore how the structural instabilities of the 21st century are legible in histories of architecture and related spatio-political disciplines, insofar as they engage questions of economy, gender, race, and environmental change. Co-sponsored by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Daniel A. Barber, Associate Professor, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign
Sophie Hochhäusl, Assistant Professor, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign and 2017-2018 Frieda L. Miller Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Eduardo Rega Calvo, Lecturer, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Penn Arts & Sciences
Peg Rawes, Barlett School of Architecture, University College London
Insecure Predictions: Buckminster Fuller's Energy Slave Maps
Jason Rebillot, Woodbury University
Manzini's Dilemma
Whitney Moon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Rise and Fall of the Atomic Energy Commission Pavilion
Paulo Tavares, University of Brasilia
Containing Poverty: Architecture between Environmentalism, Development and Counterinsurgency
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Harvard University and Rachel Lee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Léopold Lambert, Editor-in-Chief of The Funambulist
The Architecture of the Colonial Continuum
Ginger Nolan, University of Basel
Self-Help Technics: Bricolage and the Management of Neo-Liberal Uncertainty
Felicity Scott, Columbia University GSAPP
Productive Vulnerabilities
Elisavet Hasa, Royal College of Art
The Rise of Solidarity Movements and the Architecture of Collective Equipment in Athens during the Years of Crisis
Susanne Schindler, ETH Zurich
The Model Cities Program: Productive Instabilities
Maros Krivy, University of Cambridge and Estonian Academy of the Arts
Urban Complexity: A Fad?
Megan Eardley, Princeton University
The Mine, the Surveyor, and the Production of Apartheid's Boomtowns
Nikki Moore, Rice University
For Bread, Peace and Economic Expansion: Robert Malthus and the Architecture of the Green Revolution
Fabrizio Ballabio, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of York
Measures of security: Ferdinando Fuga’s Reali Granili and the politics of grain provision in Eighteenth Century Naples.
Mark Wasiuta, Columbia University and Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Columbia University
Unstable Control
Samia Henni, Princeton University
Planning Instabilities: Monnet, Marshall, and Constantine Plans
Brett Steele, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture