One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in Architecture
April 7, 2017 |
“One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in Architecture” is a one-day symposium that will examine how the values and practices of observation have shaped architectural research, design, history and pedagogy. Architectural thinkers have long used the language of observation to distinguish their work from other modes of experience, but scholars have only recently dedicated themselves to historicizing the contingent nature of this choice. The symposium assembles six scholars presenting case studies from Europe, America, Africa and East Asia that situate architectural knowledge-making within specific epistemological conjunctures. At a time when the so-called boundaries of architectural research are in question and the nature of truth both in the discipline and outside of it are changing, the day’s events show that observation and what is observed form one “complex situation” that cannot be taken for granted.
Participants: Zeynep Çelik Alexander (University of Toronto) Charles Davis (UNC Charlotte) Ed Eigen (Harvard GSD) Ayala Levin (Princeton) Jonathan Reynolds (Barnard College/Columbia University) Hadas Steiner (SUNY Buffalo)
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Website:
soa.princeton.edu/#1793 |
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Betts Auditorium |
School of Architecture
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ |
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| Contact Information |
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mullane@princeton.edu |
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