Lecture
MAS GTA Public Lecture Series, Spring 2022: Demolition–New Construction: On Whose Grounds?
Organizer: MAS ETH GTA
Date: Friday, 4 March 2022 to Friday, 29 April 2022 14-15:30 CET
Location: HIT H 42 and on Zoom | Please register at mas@gta.arch.ethz.ch
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Obsolescence as rationale for the clearance of Boston's West End.
From: A General Plan for Boston: A Preliminary Report (Boston: Boston City Planning Board, 1951: 42-43). Published in Daniel M. Abramson, Obsolescence: An Architectural History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.)
Friday, March 4
Gaia Caramellino, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano
Negotiating Ordinary Housing in post-WWII Italy: Narratives, Methods, Research Strategies
The lecture reflects on how drawing on a broad range of evidence can help to understand the histories and potential futures of middle-class housing in Italy. The focus is on the research strategies, methods and tools used to investigate complexes developed by private-sector entities between the 1950s and 1970s.
Friday, March 11
Daniel M. Abramson, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
Obsolescence
An exploration of the history of obsolescence as an economic rationale, ideology, and design practice in architecture and urbanism from the early-twentieth century to the present age of sustainability.
Friday, March 18
D. Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Rule by Aesthetics and the Politics of Unplanning Delhi
Drawing from research in various auto-constructed neighborhoods, this presentation explores four modes of aesthetic governance that characterize the contested processes of urbanization in contemporary India. The presentation examines how law- and neighborhood-making (and -breaking) are co-constituted via the circulation of visual codes of land use and built form, variously driving forced removals or consolidating claims to settlement.
Friday, April 1
Sharon Shlossberg Dinur, City Planning Department, Jerusalem Municipality
The Promises and Pitfalls of Pinui Binui and TAMA 38 in Jerusalem
Israel is currently experiencing a building boom facilitated by two tools enabling either the upgrading, or demolition and new construction, of existing housing. One is an earthquake-safety program driven by the private market, the other, an urban-renewal tool requiring stronger government action. The lecture explores current debates.
Friday, April 29
Sandra Parvu, ENS Architecture Val de Seine, University of Paris
Preservation and Professional Practice: The Paradoxical Heritage of French Public Housing
At the end of the twentieth century, poor workmanship during construction and deferred maintenance called into question the future of collective housing estates built in France after the Second World War. Parvu examines in this lecture the debate that has waged for twenty years within the French administration and architectural profession over whether and how to preserve them.
The lecture series is part of the MAS GTA research seminar.
Date: Friday, 4 March 2022 to Friday, 29 April 2022 14-15:30 CET
Location: HIT H 42 and on Zoom | Please register at mas@gta.arch.ethz.ch
[pic-20220217-194726-z469.jpg]
Obsolescence as rationale for the clearance of Boston's West End.
From: A General Plan for Boston: A Preliminary Report (Boston: Boston City Planning Board, 1951: 42-43). Published in Daniel M. Abramson, Obsolescence: An Architectural History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.)
Friday, March 4
Gaia Caramellino, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano
Negotiating Ordinary Housing in post-WWII Italy: Narratives, Methods, Research Strategies
The lecture reflects on how drawing on a broad range of evidence can help to understand the histories and potential futures of middle-class housing in Italy. The focus is on the research strategies, methods and tools used to investigate complexes developed by private-sector entities between the 1950s and 1970s.
Friday, March 11
Daniel M. Abramson, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
Obsolescence
An exploration of the history of obsolescence as an economic rationale, ideology, and design practice in architecture and urbanism from the early-twentieth century to the present age of sustainability.
Friday, March 18
D. Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Rule by Aesthetics and the Politics of Unplanning Delhi
Drawing from research in various auto-constructed neighborhoods, this presentation explores four modes of aesthetic governance that characterize the contested processes of urbanization in contemporary India. The presentation examines how law- and neighborhood-making (and -breaking) are co-constituted via the circulation of visual codes of land use and built form, variously driving forced removals or consolidating claims to settlement.
Friday, April 1
Sharon Shlossberg Dinur, City Planning Department, Jerusalem Municipality
The Promises and Pitfalls of Pinui Binui and TAMA 38 in Jerusalem
Israel is currently experiencing a building boom facilitated by two tools enabling either the upgrading, or demolition and new construction, of existing housing. One is an earthquake-safety program driven by the private market, the other, an urban-renewal tool requiring stronger government action. The lecture explores current debates.
Friday, April 29
Sandra Parvu, ENS Architecture Val de Seine, University of Paris
Preservation and Professional Practice: The Paradoxical Heritage of French Public Housing
At the end of the twentieth century, poor workmanship during construction and deferred maintenance called into question the future of collective housing estates built in France after the Second World War. Parvu examines in this lecture the debate that has waged for twenty years within the French administration and architectural profession over whether and how to preserve them.
The lecture series is part of the MAS GTA research seminar.
