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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Thu 27 Feb, 2020 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Gerhard Richter: Abstraction after Titian, circa 1973

Prof. Graham Bader begins his talk by noting two significant elements of Gerhard Richter’s 1973 production: first, all but five of his nearly 175 paintings made that year are abstract, an unprecedented development for the artist; second, the lone exceptions to this abstract turn were his Annunciations after Titian, five…

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Thu 23 Jan, 2020 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

Poe, Printmaking, and Intellectual Property

Andrei Pop brings together two of the peculiarities of French avant-garde art in the late 19th century: its nostalgic embrace of the American romantic Edgar Allan Poe and of the “dark and stormy” aesthetic of etching and engraving. The latter in particular is hard to square with our image of…

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Thu 17 Oct, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alterity and Regionalism in...

The panel will discuss what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, one hundred years after the Republic’s formation. Speakers will explore where art-historical research on Weimar might be heading and what, if any, the continued resonances of art made during this era might be, well beyond…

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Tue 19 Feb, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Some Roles of Drawing

Some Roles of Drawing is an evening dedicated to architectural drawing. With guest speakers Tony Fretton, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Niall Hobhouse, it will explore some of the many and shifting roles played by architectural drawings. Through three interconnected parts, Some Roles of Drawing begins with the physical object…

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Thu 29 Nov, 2018 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

‘Interpretation as a Special Kind of Perception’: The Des...

Brigid Doherty will discuss the design of Hermann Rorschach’s experiment in the “interpretation of chance images” as it was presented in his book Psychodiagnostics in 1921. As first published by Rorschach (1884-1922), the experiment was a test of perception, and indeed specifically of “interpretation as a special kind of perception,”…

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Fri 2 Nov, 2018 - Sat 3 Nov, 2018 Conference, Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics, and Culture in...

Early twentieth-century Germany was a site of extremes, in which art and architectural production were entangled in the swiftly changing political and social landscape. Radical utopias and pragmatic solutions for art and life were proposed, creating a crossroads of unparalleled burgeoning cultural outpouring in the midst of extreme politics. Britain…

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Mon 4 Jun, 2018 Book launch, Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germ...

Please note that due to its popularity, this event will now to held in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre. Please join us for a discussion between Professor Adrian Forty, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Robin Schuldenfrei, the author of Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933…

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Tue 1 May, 2018 Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

The Larkin’s Technologies of Trust

Prof. Zeynep Çelik Alexander uses the card ledger invented by Darwin D. Martin, the Corporate Secretary of the Larkin Company, as a starting point to offer a new history of a well-known modernist building: the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo by Frank Lloyd Wright. Founded in 1875 as a company…

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Fri 24 Nov, 2017 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

Fray: Art and Textile Politics

To mark the recent publication of her new book Fray: Art and Textile Politics, Julia Bryan-Wilson will discuss both fine art and amateur registers of hand making in art since 1970, to unveil crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist…

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Tue 23 May, 2017 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory

Modernism and mimesis in the architecture of Adolf Loos

Modern architecture, with the émigré architect as its messenger, sought to create a world in which buildings performed an act of global dissemination. They were to exist in a universal space where site specificity was no longer a value and authorship no longer central. A protagonist ‘on the move’, a…

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Mon 9 May, 2016 Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern...

  Christopher Long will speak about his new book, The New Space, which explores how three of the leading Viennese modernist architects of the early decades of the last century – Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad, and Josef Frank – sought in their buildings to weave together complex experiences of space…

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Wed 25 Jan, 2017 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory

Modern Sacred Architecture

Building Saint John’s Abbey Church: Breuer and the Benedictines (Prof. Victoria Young) Prof. Victoria Young’s recent book, Saint John’s Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space, reveals the midcentury story of how the world’s largest Benedictine abbey decided to hire an a reputable but untested…

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Fri 15 Jan, 2016 Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

Legal Aesthetics and the Architectural Ambiguities of St ...

Timothy Hyde will address the theme of incongruity in modern architecture through an examination of a significant but largely unrecognized act of postmodernism: the installation of an altar sculpted by Henry Moore in 1972 into a church designed by Christopher Wren in 1672. The implications of this installation test and…

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