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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series - Contextual Imaginary as Method
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Catherine Gay Menzel\n\nThe lecture will address the ori
 gin of GayMenzel's approach to practice. Through transformation projects\,
  a method has been developed based on architectural thinking\, collaborati
 on with local builders and\, importantly\, construction site experience. T
 ypological transpositions and re-use of materials\, colours or objects are
  inherent to this method\, which developed into a teaching methodology cal
 led Contextual Imaginary\, positioning interventions in continuity and equ
 ilibrium within existing conditions. Realized projects as well as student 
 work will illustrate this process and relate it to a teaching methodology 
 and to an empirical research strategy. The discussion will be opened on th
 e relevance of a timeless architectural language drawing on a broad defini
 tion of transformation\, capable of questioning chronology and hierarchy i
 n temporalities and scales\, while addressing the intertextuality of archi
 tecture.\n\nCatherine Gay Menzel\, architect ETHZ BSA SIA\n\nBorn in Züri
 ch and raised in Valais\, Catherine Gay Menzel completes her studies at ET
 HZ and graduates in 1999 with Prof. Andrea Deplazes. She joins Hans Kollho
 ff’s office in Berlin the same year\, where she works on the constructio
 n of a building on Postdamer Platz\, in the context of the Kritische Rekon
 struktion. In 2003\, she moves to New York and collaborates with Leslie Gi
 ll\, while also developing an independent practice with Götz Menzel. Retu
 rning to Europe in 2005\, she works in Basel with Dominique Salathé and F
 rançois Fasnacht\, before joining Herzog & de Meuron in Hamburg for the c
 onstruction of the Elbphilharmonie. She moves back to Monthey in 2009 work
 ing with Roland Gay and co-founds GayMenzel with Götz Menzel in 2013.\nSh
 e teaches a design studio at EPFL since 2020\, with Götz Menzel since 202
 1. She also taught at the master level in the school of Ensa Paris-Est in 
 the spring semester 2025 in collaboration with Tristan Chadney.\n 
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