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SUMMARY:Radio-Activities: Book Launch with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sarah 
 Nichols / Neighbours Vol. 4 by TPOD\, THEMA\, HITAM
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DESCRIPTION:Alfredo Thiermann in dialogue with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sa
 rah Nichols. \nIn 1945\, having occupied German territory\, Soviet troops
  made two strategic moves: they dismantled the Deutschlandsender III radio
  transmission tower\, the single tallest structure at the time in Europe\,
  and they seized the Haus des Rundfunks in West Berlin\, a monumental buil
 ding designed by Hans Poelzig. These moves were crucial both symbolically 
 and technically\, as together they sparked what would become a veritable r
 adio war between the Eastern and Western blocs during the Cold War. \n\nI
 n dialogue with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sarah Nichols\, Alfredo Thiermann
  will present Radio-Activities (MIT Press\, 2024)\, a book in which he i
 nvestigates this spatial conflict by interrogating the political\, technol
 ogical\, and environmental dimensions of architecture at a time when build
 ings began to interact with the remote transmission of information. In doi
 ng so\, the book interrogates the status and agency of buildings during a 
 period—not unlike today’s—of increasingly hyperconnected\, ubiquitou
 s\, and apparently invisible modes of coexistence.\n\n\nAlfredo Thiermann 
 Riesco is an architect and Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Ar
 chitecture at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne. His work ha
 s been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, Museo Nacional 
 de Bellas Artes in Santiago\, Istanbul Design Biennial\, gta exhibitions i
 n Zurich\, and Venice Art Biennale\, among other institutions. He is a rec
 ipient of the Rome Prize awarded by the German Academy in Rome.
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