The Building brought together historians, theorists, architects and PhD candidates from both Europe and the US for a day-long exchange around the problem of the building as a form of knowledge. Each participant was asked to pick a building, built or designed within the last 25 years, which they could show embodied a historically substantial contribution in terms of a particular design aspect or a concept relevant to the reading of buildings in general. Participants were also invited to speculate on the possibility for such a design technique or concept to become the seed of a metadisciplinary theoretical framework.

Open event.

2 June 2014
10am
33 FFF
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square WC1B 3ES

The second installment of this event took place at Columbia University GSAPP in New York City on
15 November 2014

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Adrian Forty

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illustrated how interpreting a wall’s redundancies may help to fundamentally question the role of a building’s vertical faces.

Franco Purini and Laura Thermes – House of the Pharmacist, Ghibellina Nuova, Sicily (1980-83) .

Adrian Forty is Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where he is director of the MA Architectural History programme. His most recent book is Concrete and Culture (2012), published by Reaktion Books; and he is currently the President of the European Architectural History Network.

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