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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Sarah Nichols
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sarah Nichols\nDate: 18 October 2023\nTime: 18:00 – 1
 9:15\nIntroductions by the Dean\, lectures by Prof. Sarah Nichols and Prof
 . Wenyu Gu. Followed by an Apero.\nPlace: SG 1\nZoom link\n\n\nTitle:\nCo
 nstructing Materials\n\nAbstract\nArchitecture relies on materials—an ob
 vious statement but one at the crux of ecological\, social\, and political
  crises facing the discipline today. A building’s materiality embodies t
 he organizations and knowledge\, energy and labor\, and extraction and emi
 ssion that bring architecture into being. Yet this materiality is both con
 crete and abstract—it is\, for example\, the hard facts of the material 
 supply chain but also the technical imaginary that shapes a material. Look
 ing inductively at materiality is\, as I will show\, key to denaturalizing
  the constructive cultures that we find ourselves in today and crucial to 
 understanding the possibilities and pitfalls for paths forward. Pedagogica
 lly\, practically\, and theoretically\, a material approach positions arch
 itecture to rise to the present condition while reassessing its own discip
 linarity. \n\nAbout the speaker\nSarah Nichols is an Assistant Professor
  of Architecture (tenure track) at EPFL and director of the lab THEMA (The
 ory of Environment and Materials in Architecture). Prior to joining EPFL\
 , she was an Assistant Professor of Architecture (tenure track) at Rice Un
 iversity in Houston. Nichols studied architecture at the University of Mic
 higan in Ann Arbor\, at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam\, and received 
 her doctorate (Dr. Sc.) at ETH Zurich where she was awarded the ETH Medal.
 \n\nSarah Nichols’s scholarly work examines the environmental and polit
 ical entanglements of construction\, particularly through building materia
 ls. Her material retrospective “Beton” was recently shown at the Swi
 ss Architecture Museum in Basel. She is currently working on a book manu
 script Opération Béton: Constructing Concrete in Switzerland based on
  her dissertation.\n\nTogether with Sarah Nichols\, THEMA is made up of Zi
 u Bruckmann\, Arthur de Buren\, Akshar Gajjar\, Marion Moutal\, Tiffanie P
 aré\, and Tamara Pelège.
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