Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty
Event details
| Date | 05.06.2013 |
| Hour | 18:30 |
| Speaker |
Iñaki Ábalos Iñaki Ábalos is a Ph.D. in Architecture (1991). Appointed Chair of Department of Architecture GSD Harvard University (2012). He is professor in Residence at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) (since 2012) and Chaired Professor of Architectural Design at the ETSAM (since 2002). He was Kenzo Tange Professor (2009) and Design Critic in Architecture (2010-2012). He is the codirector of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos, and the director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (LTPC, since 2002). He has sat on the scientific committee of the Study Center of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (2005/2011) and was a member of the board of directors of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture (2008-2012). In 2009 the RIBA awarded him its international membership. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
A thermodynamic conception of architecture stresses the importance of the air; it demands to project the air and not just the materials, forms and iconography. This leads, to some extent, to a growing evanescence of the spatial systems which, in turn, leads to new ways to experience architecture. In fact, projecting the air gives prominence to the somatic experience of the subject. In other words, to the individual that moves around and makes his/her own experience of art, city and life, following impulses that are regulated neither by the reason nor by a sort of phenomenological stimuli, but by a set of instincts, social and cultural rules, and by the will to expand the boundaries of his/her own experience. This idea can be included in what I like to call the thermodynamic beauty, close to the Aristotelian idea of a good life.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Organized by the EPFL Team of Jeannette Kuo
Contact
- Atelier Kuo: [email protected]