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SUMMARY:Urban and Environmental Theory Session #1 Hamed Khosravi
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DESCRIPTION:Hamed Khosravi\nUrban and Environmental Theory Session #1 Hame
 d Khosravi\n\nInspired by metropolitan structures\, landforms and abstract
  tectonics\, Zoe Zenghelis’ paintings create an unprecedented imaginary\
 ; a form of critique that represents reality as an assemblage of selected 
 spatial\, political\, social and psychological relations. The distinctive 
 colour palettes\, abstract planes and jagged forms within Zenghelis’ wor
 k locate her quite comfortably within the lineage of modernist painters\, 
 who challenge conventional aesthetic rules and incite a search for paranoi
 d-critical rationality. Her work developed within the context of mid-20th 
 century contemporary art in London\; where Zenghelis stands out within tha
 t group of predominantly white and male painters by virtue of her singular
 ly surrealistic gaze that lends the modernist rationality of her spatial a
 rrangements a melancholic allure. Such unique characteristics are well man
 ifested in her independent career as a painter as well as her work a found
 ing member of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). The Ecstasy of t
 he Image will undertake a close reading Zoe Zenghelis’ artistic practice
  in order to chart the untold history of her collaboration with OMA\, as w
 ell as her teaching career at the Architectural Association that brought i
 n massive change\, not only in the way architectural representation was th
 ought at the school\, but also in how it reintroduced painting as a mode o
 f thinking about space\, light\, colour\, and proportion\; a fundamental s
 hift in architectural pedagogy.\n\nHamed Khosravi is an architect\, resear
 cher and educator. He studied architecture in Tehran\, holds a Postgraduat
 e Master’s degree in Urbanism from TU Delft and IUAV\, and gained his Ph
 D from ‘The City as a Project’ programme at the Berlage Institute and 
 TU Delft. He has been teaching in various schools of architecture\, and cu
 rrently teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (A
 A) in London. He is the author of Gabriel Guevrekian: The Elusive Modernis
 t (2020)\, editor and co-author of Tehran- Life Within Walls (2017). He co
 -edited Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics (2019) and co-curated Tehran 
 (2019). His recent book\, Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The 
 Work of Zoe Zenghelis\, is published by AA Publications in 2022.\n 
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