Images saturate our lives, confirming Italo Calvino’s remark of living in “an unending rainfall of images”. Across this relentless deluge, images appear and disappear in a maddening competition for attention (propelled by an unprecedented speed of production and consumption, and by an ever insatiable market of far reaching tentacles). This blatant exploitation permeates everything from politics to entertainment, from art to fashion, from food to architecture….. Living within this daily, vast and pervasive “culture of images” posits interesting challenges for the architect to remain a critical and effective maker of images. The seminar closely examines a selection of works in architecture, film, literature and music in order to reveal how images transcend their initial evocation, fabrication or manipulation. In particular, the course focuses on the intricate construction that makes, binds and liberates each examined work. These works range from among others, buildings and writings by Peter Zumthor, Louis Kahn, Renzo Piano, Aldo Rossi, Lina Bo Bardi, Smiljan Radic and Valerio Olgiati, films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Céline Sciamma, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, writings by Federico Garcia Lorca, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tomas Transtromer.
W 7:00 – 9:30 p.m., TBD
Large, introductory-level course in lecture/discussion format on topics related to current research in architecture.