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SUMMARY:The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and Its Critical Recep
 tion\, lecture by Irina Davidovici  / Neighbours Vol. 4 by TPOD\, THEMA\, 
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DESCRIPTION:Irina Davidovici\nDuring the late 1970s and 1980s\, the archit
 ecture from the Swiss Canton of Ticino gained a wide international follow
 ing that belied its remote location. Following the exhibition Tendenzen
 : Neuere Architektur im Tessin\, shown at ETH Zurich in 1975 and EPFL sh
 ortly afterwards\, the contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the s
 ubject of fervent coverage. After the Swiss exhibitions followed internati
 onal publications\, including in A+U\, L’architecture d’aujourd’hu
 i\, and Oppositions.  In this book\, Irina Davidovici argues that this 
 critical attention instrumentalized Ticino architecture in unpredictable w
 ays. The production of theory emancipated architectural narratives from th
 e actual conditions of production\, a flattening that actively aided their
  international circulation. This extended essay examines the means of dis
 semination and the reception of Ticino architecture in the autonomous theo
 retical framings of Neo-Realism and Critical Regionalism\, placing well-kn
 own external constructs\, such as the notion of the School of the Ticino\,
  against the skepticism of lesser known local architects and historians.
  Davidovici traces the long-term consequences of the misalignment betwee
 n autonomous theory and situated knowledge in the architecture in the Tici
 no\, and shows how it led to the paradoxical divergence of its historiogr
 aphy from its history. \n\n \n\nArchitect and historian Irina Davidovici
  is the Director of the gta Archiv and Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich. Her
  research straddles housing history\, cooperatives and alternative forms o
 f communal living\, and recent architecture in Switzerland. She is the aut
 hor of Forms of Practice. German-Swiss Architecture 1980–2000 (gta 2012 
 and 2018) and The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and Its Critical
  Reception (gta\, 2024)\, and edited Colquhounery. Alan Colquhoun from Bri
 colage to Myth (AA\, 2015). She is currently working on a new book Common 
 Grounds: A Comparative History of Early Housing Estates in Europe (Triest\
 , Zurich\, 2025).
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