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SUMMARY:The Rolex Learning Center Dialogues - Dialogue 1 'Higher Knowledge
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DESCRIPTION:Christophe van Gerrewey\, Brian Dillon\nDIALOGUES\nThe Rolex L
 earning Center Dialogues\n\nArchizoom is delighted to invite you to engage
  in a series of DIALOGUES to celebrate the first decade of the Rolex Learn
 ing Centre on the EPFL campus\, a building dedicated entirely to study\, i
 nterdisciplinarity and encounters.\n\nArchitecture is a practice at the co
 nvergence of many technical\, artistic and philosophical specialisations. 
 A dialogue represents an exploration of knowledge\, experiences and opinio
 ns based on empathetic listening and the desire to learn from the other. I
 n this spirit\, Archizoom invites two guests from two different fields to 
 discuss contemporary challenges of the built environment.\n\nDIALOGUE 1 - 
 26.05.21\nLaunch of the book Higher Knowledge. SANAA's Rolex Learning Cen
 tre at EPFL since 2010\nChristophe van Gerrewey and Brian Dillon\n\nThe es
 say remains an important form for thinking\, writing and reading. Durin
 g this conversation\, the characteristics of the essay will be discussed\
 , as well as its application to architecture. Is architecture a general 
 cultural subject\, and if so\, how can it be interpreted\, described an
 d communicated? Did the major essayists of the 20th century - Susan Sontag
 \, Roland Barthes or Walter Benjamin\, to name a few - consider architectu
 re as a topic? And how can a building like the Rolex Learning Center beco
 me a source of essayistic knowledge?\n\nGuests \n\nChristophe Van Gerrew
 ey (1982) is assistant professor of architecture theory at EPFL Lausanne. 
 As a critic and a theorist\, writing about contemporary buildings\, their 
 recent histories and intellectual dimensions\, and their connections to so
 ciety\, philosophy\, art and literature\, he has developed a position as a
 n expert on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas as well as on Belgian architectur
 e. He is one of the editors of architecture journal OASE and of art and 
 culture journal De Witte Raaf. He was trained as an architect-engineer at
  Ghent University and as a literary theorist at KU Leuven. In Dutch\, his 
 mother tongue\, he has published three novels and a collection of essays b
 etween 2013 and 2017.\n\nBrian Dillon (1969) was born in Dublin. He studie
 d English and Philosophy at University College Dublin and completed a Ph.D
 . in English at the University of Kent in 1999. His essays\, articles and 
 reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, London Review of
  Books\, New York Review of Books\, Financial Times and New Statesman. 
 He is a widely published art critic and writes regularly for Frieze\, Art
  Review\, Modern Painters\, Tate etc. and The Wire. He is UK editor of 
 Cabinet\, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of London. H
 is most recent books are Suppose a Sentence\, Essayism\, The Great Expl
 osion\, Objects in This Mirror and Ruin Lust.\n\n\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69020123815
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