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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by L.-C. Szacka
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DESCRIPTION:Léa-Catherine Szacka\n14:00 – 14:45 – Dr L.-C. Szacka\nSe
 nior Lecturer at University of Manchester\, UK\n\nOn Screen: The Architect
 ure of Media Environments\n\nSince March 2020\, with the outbreak of Covid
 -19\, most of our life has moved inside the home: from the space of the sq
 uare to the surface of the screen\, via Zoom and other virtual platforms. 
 Everything that was previously lived in the flesh has now transformed into
  a continuous flow of connectivity\, ushering in\, to paraphrase Habermas\
 , another structural transformation of the public sphere. How can we theor
 ize and historicize this changing relationship between inside and outside\
 , private and public\, local and global?\n         Looking at toda
 y’s reality\, we can argue that we are experiencing a shift initiated in
  the immediate post-war period when television and later computer screens 
 became ubiquitous. Already in 1973\, British architecture critic Martin Pa
 wley\, in his book The Private Future\, observing the changes that were oc
 curring around him\, foresaw a society with ever greater technical means o
 f communication becoming paradoxically more insular and dysfunctional. Mor
 e than forty years later\, screens regulate our public and private life an
 d modify our ways of interacting with space and between us.\n      
    Etymologically\, a screen refers to a filter\, a divider\, and a shel
 ter. Later\, the word became widely associated with flat vertical surfaces
  for the reception of projected images. Finally\, with the advent of new m
 edia\, screens' function expanded beyond the optical\, as surfaces that di
 splay images and data. In this lecture\, through a series of examples brid
 ging the history and theory of architecture\, design\, and engineering\, I
  question how our passive and active interactions with screens have led to
  a series of shifts at different scales: from urban to architectural and f
 rom public to domestic spaces. What are the consequences of these shifts o
 n the way we use and design spaces? How can screens - as an environment\, 
 a technology\, and a window on the world - serve as a lens to conceptualiz
 e and understand the past and future challenges of architecture?\n\n\nShor
 t bio:\nLéa–Catherine Szacka (Montreal\, 1979) is an architectural hist
 orian\, educator and researcher. Szacka is Senior Lecturer (Associate Pr
 ofessor) in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and visi
 ting tutor at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and 
 Urban Design. She has taught at Harvard GSD\, The Oslo School of Architect
 ure and Design\, and the ENSA-Versailles\, and has been a visiting fellow 
 at the Centre for Architecture Theory Criticism History in Brisbane\, and 
 at Monash University Art Design & Architecture in Melbourne. Szacka is th
 e author of the award-winning book Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Ve
 nice Architecture Biennale (Marsilio\, 2016) and of Biennials/Triennials
 : Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display (Columbia Books on 
 Architecture and the City\, 2019). She is co-author of Le Concert: Pink Fl
 oyd à Venise (B2\, 2017) and co-editor of Mediated Messages: Periodicals
 \, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture (Bloomsbury\, 2
 018). Her writing appeared in Log\, OASE\, AA Files\, AD\, ARCH+\, A
 TR\, Volume\, Art Papers\, The Journal of Architectural Education\, and
  The Journal of Architecture. She is currently councillor for the Europea
 n Architectural History Network and sits on the editorial board of Footpri
 nt: Delft Architecture Theory Journal and Architectural History. In 2020\,
  together with Véronique Patteeuw\, she co-founded Pasza\, a platform for
  Architectural Research and Pedagogy.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87063952658
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