BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Architecture's Landscape | Designing water: Berlin’s first munic ipal water infrastructure (1874-1900) DTSTART:20210329T163000 DTEND:20210329T173000 DTSTAMP:20261004T233236Z UID:13fead887bbb9619a33b7321d4979dcec5f6f3241844cff8c51b0185 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Laila Seewang is assistant professor in the School of Architec ture at Portland State University where she teaches design studios and ar chitectural and urban history and theory. She also sits on the Board of Di rectors of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative. She is a registe red architect and an architectural historian and theorist whose research u ses infrastructure as a lens through which to study environmental and urba n design\, in particular during the nineteenth century. She is currently w orking on a book manuscript that looks at the role that public water infra structure played in Berlin’s nineteenth-century municipal development\, and researching the infrastructure of timber modernism in the Pacific Nort hwest. She is the co-editor of a special double issue of Architectural The ory Review\, Timber Constructed: Towards an Alternative Material History ( 2021) and has also written about German architectural historiography\, pub lic toilets in Berlin\, brick manufacturing in Brandenburg\, and rapid san d filters in central Massachusetts.\nArchitecture’s Landscape examines d ifferent environments created for and by architectural production in order to broaden the notion of design as practice that extends beyond the build ing.  Architectural history and theory are increasingly concerned with th e impacts that the construction industry has on the environment\, from ext raction to carbon footprints to waste production. These lectures analyse t he specific nature of these impacts by using infrastructure as a lens thro ugh which to view architectural production as a flow of materials across m ultiples scales\, from environment to network to building to detail. It si multaneously challenges the narratives that are used to describe these arc hitectures. This work unravels a series of material flow chains to reposit ion the building as only one part of the designed flow of wood\, water\, a nd clay.\n\nWhile questions about the relation of architecture to its envi ronment are increasingly prevalent among architectural historians and theo rists in general\, materiality offers a very tangible way of making visibl e architecture’s complicity in larger environmental issues. These lectur es are a methodological proposition: can we\, as architectural theorists\, designers\, or historians\, resituate architecture into an expanded narra tive about design whereby materiality is both the built (building) and unb uilt (landscape)\, but also the visible (structures) as well as the invisi ble (through policies and institutions)? By looking at design in this way\ , can we understand the choices made within the assemblage as design choic es that paired infrastructure with narrative? Together\, these lectures of fer a new approach to understanding architecture by focusing on design—e nvironmental design\, technological design\, building design\, and the des ign of material flows.\n\nDesigning water: Berlin’s first municipal wate r infrastructure \nIn combatting urban epidemics\, many European cities in the late-nineteenth century installed municipal water infrastructure. Thi s lecture looks at the example of Berlin and tries to understand the desig n of water supply and waste water removal infrastructure as a project that also designed an environment for the first time. By regulating the hinter land through its hydrogeological resources\, the project also changed what the countryside meant and represented\, it redefined urban public and pri vate space\, and designed an entirely new commodity: water itself.\n\nThis lecture is the second of three given within the frame of the ALICE y1 pro gramme. LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/99758098828 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR