Difficult Double: Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee) / Frank O. Gehry
Event details
| Date | 14.04.2014 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | Mark Lee |
| Location |
Auditoire SG1
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Difficult Double is primarily a series of lectures, which aims to offer to EPFL a portrait of the contemporary panorama of culturally involved practices around the world. The format, echoing the Venturian idea of architecture as a “difficult whole”, couples each time an architect’s work and his/her own main cultural reference in the architectural production of the past, starting from the basic assumption that architecture is not so much about inventions but more about intentions. The architect and his/her obsession compose a “double portrait”, a “difficult double”, which should provide a deeper comprehension of both the architect’s and the double’s oeuvre. The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been an engine of many of the avant-gardes of the recent past. The totality of these micro stories will inevitably create an alternative history, an accumulated set of cultural knowledge.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- FORM
Laboratory for architecture as form
Contact
- Jelena Pancevac