Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia
Untimely Meditations is an evening symposium co-curated by Chair of the Department of Architecture Rossana Hu and Mark Lee.
The title borrows Nietzsche's Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen and its idea of the untimely: thought that works against its own age, neither nostalgic nor merely current. The discipline's deepest resources are slow — precedent, type, form, the transmission of ideas from teacher to student and building to building. The present is fast. The evening asks what it means to practice and to teach with the long view when the moment demands urgency, and it does so by asking each participant to speak not about their own work, but about the influences they carry and the emerging practices they believe we should be watching.
An evening in the round rather than a lecture: no stage and no table, but a circle, with participants and audience seated together and two projections, one on each side of the room. Each participant will have roughly ten minutes in all, followed by open discussion.
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Kersten Geers
Kersten Geers is an architect, writer and educator. He graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Ghent and at the ETSA Madrid. Together with David Van Severen, he is a founding partner of the Brussels-based architecture firm OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen.
Go Hasagawa Wilfried Kuehn Eric Lapierre
Regine Leibinger
Since 1993 Regine Leibinger has been leading the architectural practice Barkow Leibinger in Berlin together with Frank Barkow. She was Professor of Building Construction and Design at the TU Berlin and has taught as Visiting Professor at Princeton University and the Harvard GSD. She is a member of the Architecture Section at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, as well as the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Berlin, and was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2020.
Jing Liu
Jing Liu co-founded SO – IL with Florian Idenburg in 2008. Over 20 years of practice, Jing has brought an intellectually open, globally aware, and locally embedded sensibility to her work spanning a wide range of mission-driven projects.
Michael Meredith
Michael Meredith is co-principal of the architecture studio MOS, along with Hilary Sample, and a Professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Recent publications include Smaller Architecture and Public Spaces NYC.
