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SUMMARY:School Lecture Series: Menna Agha\, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes / E
 PFL Architecture
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DESCRIPTION:Menna Agha\, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\nMENNA AGHA\, CHARLOTT
 E MALTERRE-BARTHES\n"A Moratorium on New Construction" Book Launch & Talk\
 n\nTo mark the launch of the long-awaited book A Moratorium on New Constru
 ction (Sternberg Press & MIT Press)\, architect-researcher Menna Agha join
 s author Charlotte Malterre-Barthes to challenge architecture's addiction 
 to construction and explore alternatives. Together\, they'll tackle the th
 orny question of how a field built on material extraction can transform it
 self\, the massive value shift it requires\, and what we might gain by not
  building\, building less\, building with what is there\, and caring for i
 t.\n\nMenna Agha is an Assistant Professor at the Azrieli School of Archit
 ecture & Urbanism (University of Ottawa\, Ca.) and an architect-researcher
  whose work examines the intersections of spatial justice\, race\, and gen
 der. Previously leading the spatial justice agenda at the Flanders Archite
 cture Institute in Belgium\, she is cross-appointed at Carleton University
 's Institute for African Studies. Her perspective as a third-generation di
 splaced Fadicha Nubian deeply informs her research on space\, territory\, 
 and displacement. Dr. Agha holds a PhD in Architecture from the University
  of Antwerp and previously served as the Spatial Justice Fellow at the Uni
 versity of Oregon.\n\nCharlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect\, urban d
 esigner\, and Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Techno
 logy—EPFL\, where she leads the laboratory RIOT. Most recently Assistant
  Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, Malterre-Barthes con
 ducts research on contemporary urbanization\, material extraction\, climat
 e emergency\, and ecological/social justice. She holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zu
 rich on the political economy of commodities in the built environment and 
 is the co-author of several prize-winning books.\n\nThis lecture is part o
 f the school lecture series\nHOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse\n\nReuse of
  existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet\, reuse 
 is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society\, buildings are prod
 uced as commodities and\, as such\, they are not meant to last. Moreover\,
  what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se
 \, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural 
 project.\n\nThis lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former
  offices\, factories\, or houses are transformed or expanded as residentia
 l spaces. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light n
 ot only on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges. 
 The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlot
 te Malterre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on New Construction".
LOCATION:Foyer SG https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22
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