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Thu 18 Feb, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Courtauld Asia, Event Recording, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum
[ONLINE] The Mood of a Place: A Sensible History of India...
The art of sensing moods mattered in precolonial South Asia. The eighteenth-century painters of Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, suggest that the moods of pleasure and prosperity mattered even more. The moods of grand-scale paintings, larger in size than manuscripts and portraits, which could be held in…
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Thu 22 Apr, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
[ONLINE] Gay Bar: A dig beneath the disco
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Thu 28 Jan, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
[ONLINE] Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and ...
This event brings together several contributors to the recently published book Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture who will each present their research, followed by a moderated panel discussion. Speakers will consider the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artefact, with…
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Tue 10 Nov, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars
[ONLINE] Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Media...
Professor Pamela Karimi explores the spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1990s. She illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have driven Iran’s creative agents toward increasingly original forms of site-oriented and durational artmaking. Predominantly ephemeral, most of these artworks don’t enter the global art market, at least not in the…
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Wed 7 Oct, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Book launch, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
[ONLINE] Book event: ‘Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprint...
Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by László Moholy-Nagy is a new publication that offers a unique insight into one of the less familiar sides of the Bauhaus at large and Moholy-Nagy in particular. In May 1926, thirteen Bauhaus professors and students created handprints that were preserved by László Moholy-Nagy. This book brings together for the first…
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Wed 29 Jan, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Research Forum
Architecture & Violence
Prompted by President Trump’s threat to bomb heritage sites in Iran, architectural historians at The Courtauld offer a ‘long view’ on the destruction of architecture and heritage in a series of lightning talks. Exploring ideas of iconoclasm, ‘warchitecture’, memory, violence and renewal, papers will consider architectural destruction from the sixteenth…
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Fri 15 Nov, 2019 - Sat 16 Nov, 2019 Architecture Cultures, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum
Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the e...
Ideas about the origins and context for the flâneur have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the flâneur with modernity and European cities has continued to dominate studies of its variant forms. This conference…
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