ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. C. von Moos & Dr F. Sauter
Event details
| Date | 04.12.2020 |
| Hour | 15:00 › 15:45 |
| Speaker | Prof. Charlotte von Moos & Dr Florian Sauter |
| Location |
Zoom
Online
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
15:00 – 15:45 – Prof. Charlotte von Moos & Dr Florian Sauter
Assistant Professor at University of Miami, USA & Lecturer at University of Miami, USA / co-founders at Sauter von Moos, Basel, Switzerland
Talk title:
Some Fragments
Abstract:
Each task is particular, and we try to confront every endeavor with the freshness we think it deserves. Theoretically it is quite simple: identifying the right concept, finding precisely that which needs to be done, and addressing it each time differently. To this end, no stylistic, methodological or epistemological preconceptions should hinder a profound understanding and rigorous study of each changing brief. We relate this idea of openmindedness to a form of freedom, which is connected to one’s capacity to set aside, with each design, all prescribed doctrines and stiff-necked habits. For the purpose of a desired easiness and lightness, it may demand to walk away from the safety of one’s own beliefs, to possess a chameleon-like readiness to change, and to be unburdened by questions of convention. As a logical result, this more experimental attitude and the resulting heterogeneity, which invites paradox and ambiguity, clearly expresses our willingness to embrace the complexities and the intricacies of the contemporary experience. Therefore, instead of a clear-cut agenda, we rather intend to present our work and thoughts about architecture through the lens of a few fragmentary and loosely connected terms – presence, surrealism, archaism, freedom, loss and space-time – that share in common a deep wish to understand and transform reality, which, as the given context, denotes the entire realm of essential forces a building’s construction, space and form has to unavoidably face.
Short bio:
Prof. Charlotte von Moos collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, where she was project manager of the VitraHaus. She has been a teaching assistant of Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and from 2010 to 2016 taught at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD, where she was in charge of the acclaimed research achtung: die Landschaft. She was Visiting Professor of Architecture at TU Munich, Workshop Leader at Porto Academy, and since 2018 she is Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.
Dr. Florian Sauter worked with Christian Kerez on a series of competitions like the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Between 2006 and 2014 he co-edited the Architectural Papers at the Chair of Josep Lluis Mateo at ETH Zurich, including the seminal publication Earth Water Air Fire. He is the author of Painting the Sky Black and was Visiting Professor of Architecture at TU Munich, Workshop Leader at Porto Academy, and Visiting Critic at Cornell AAP. Currently, he teaches at the University of Miami.
Assistant Professor at University of Miami, USA & Lecturer at University of Miami, USA / co-founders at Sauter von Moos, Basel, Switzerland
Talk title:
Some Fragments
Abstract:
Each task is particular, and we try to confront every endeavor with the freshness we think it deserves. Theoretically it is quite simple: identifying the right concept, finding precisely that which needs to be done, and addressing it each time differently. To this end, no stylistic, methodological or epistemological preconceptions should hinder a profound understanding and rigorous study of each changing brief. We relate this idea of openmindedness to a form of freedom, which is connected to one’s capacity to set aside, with each design, all prescribed doctrines and stiff-necked habits. For the purpose of a desired easiness and lightness, it may demand to walk away from the safety of one’s own beliefs, to possess a chameleon-like readiness to change, and to be unburdened by questions of convention. As a logical result, this more experimental attitude and the resulting heterogeneity, which invites paradox and ambiguity, clearly expresses our willingness to embrace the complexities and the intricacies of the contemporary experience. Therefore, instead of a clear-cut agenda, we rather intend to present our work and thoughts about architecture through the lens of a few fragmentary and loosely connected terms – presence, surrealism, archaism, freedom, loss and space-time – that share in common a deep wish to understand and transform reality, which, as the given context, denotes the entire realm of essential forces a building’s construction, space and form has to unavoidably face.
Short bio:
Prof. Charlotte von Moos collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, where she was project manager of the VitraHaus. She has been a teaching assistant of Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and from 2010 to 2016 taught at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD, where she was in charge of the acclaimed research achtung: die Landschaft. She was Visiting Professor of Architecture at TU Munich, Workshop Leader at Porto Academy, and since 2018 she is Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.
Dr. Florian Sauter worked with Christian Kerez on a series of competitions like the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Between 2006 and 2014 he co-edited the Architectural Papers at the Chair of Josep Lluis Mateo at ETH Zurich, including the seminal publication Earth Water Air Fire. He is the author of Painting the Sky Black and was Visiting Professor of Architecture at TU Munich, Workshop Leader at Porto Academy, and Visiting Critic at Cornell AAP. Currently, he teaches at the University of Miami.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Joanna Jermini-Howard / Cristina Perez