BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Industrial Architecture\, Situated in the Twentieth Century by Cla ire Zimmerman / TPOD\, ACHT\, THEMA\, HITAM DTSTART:20240410T123000 DTEND:20240410T140000 DTSTAMP:20260916T085839Z UID:23ffa645b704c844eba7fdce7ec9e1173b632f8f7be2bd9a48559d22 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Claire Zimmerman.\nThis talk examines modern architecture betw een political economy and daily use. Taking up recent work that explores p rivate capital and state power mediated by buildings\, the talk presents f indings from a new book on Albert Kahn Inc. (forthcoming 2024) that ground s this mediation in industrial buildings\, their role in society\, and the ir daily use. To characterize industrial building as the inverse of archit ecture “proper” may overstate the case\; but such a claim nonetheless illuminates this investigation. Detroit’s Hudson Motor Company\, for exa mple\, sits at the opposite end of the economic spectrum from sumptuary bu ildings in the same context– the villas\, mansions\, and museums of thos e making automobiles in 1910–that are funded by the profits of the facto ry that sells increasing numbers of cars. Manufacturing facilities\, one o f the fixed costs of doing business\, immovably house the fluctuating and variable costs of raw materials and labor\, exerting downward pressure on the wages of their occupants. Such a structural antagonism between buildin gs and their inhabitants is striking. And yet\, it can be frequently found in the built environment writ large. The regular disappearance of industr ial buildings—another point of difference with the history of architectu re as a history of durability—is part and parcel of the socioeconomic wo rk that they do. Inherently mutable\, they are regularly demolished\, retr ofitted\, or replaced. With them goes the history of those who worked insi de their walls\, who are thereby doubly disadvantaged. These buildings pro vide a counter history of architecture that may prove the rule\, through t he exception\, but they also chronicle mass society. Sitting at the junctu re between social revolution\, welfare capitalism\, and the fully automate d building machine\, their architectural capacities are still poorly under stood. Thus are they cut off from possible futures grounded in environment al and functional efficiencies\, social welfare programs\, and architectur al amenity—the protocols of early twentieth-century industrial building. \n \nClaire Zimmerman is an associate professor at the Daniels Faculty at University of Toronto. Zimmerman’s work focuses on “protocols of mode rnization and modernity” in architecture and the built environment. She is the author of Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century (201 4) and Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture\, Labor\, and Industry (2024).\n\n Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3\n\n13/3 - Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL).  Architecture and Abstraction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols\, Christophe van Gerrewey\, and Alfredo Thiermann\n20/3 - Tatiana Efrussi (L’atelier des artistes en exil). Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From Utopia n 'Home' to National Memorial\n27/3 - Sarah Gainsforth (Journalist). Chall enging the New Housing Question\n10/4 - Claire Zimmerman (University of To ronto). Industrial Architecture\, Situated in the Twentieth Century\n24/4 - Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Against t he Commons: Elements for a Radical Planning Theory\n1/5 - Spyros Papapetro s (Princeton University). Pre/Architecture\n8/5 - Anna-Maria Meister (Kuns thistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute\, KIT and saai arc hive Karlsruhe). Fragile Objects\, Coded Knowledge\n15/5 - Platon Issaias (Architectural Association) & Ioanna Theocharopoulou (Columbia University) . On the Polykatoikia and its Discontents LOCATION:Archizoom STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR