A brief history of architectural research

"When did research cease to be a sedulous, nerdy, gray activity undertaken in fluorescent-lit laboratories and dusty archives and become a fetishistic activity carried out in design studios? How and when did it overtake theory and history in the architecture school curriculum? This lecture will raise some questions about the ways architectural research and its curation are related to a contemporary digital-global society and will contrast the intellectual culture of architecture schools today and in the past."

Joan Ockman is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Visiting Professor at Cooper Union and Cornell University School of Architecture. She taught for over two decades at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

This conference is part of the seminar "Les Quatrièmes Rencontres de l'EDAR" organized by the Doctoral School of Architecture.