De­tail­sei­te

Ar­chi­tec­tu­re ex­em­pli­fies the po­ly­mor­phism, am­bi­gui­ty, and mul­ti­va­len­cy of the en­vi­ron­ment that we ar­ti­fi­cial­ly and ar­tis­ti­cal­ly crea­te for our­sel­ves.

In this con­text, the use and waste of ma­te­ri­als and pro­ces­ses are both in­ter­de­pen­dent and in­ter­sec­ting in equal me­a­su­re. The event in­tro­du­ced here brings this pro­duc­ti­ve con­tra­dic­tion of our built en­vi­ron­ment up for dis­cus­sion.

The de­ba­te will focus on four the­mes that have shaped the ar­ti­cu­la­ti­on, func­tion, and me­a­ning of ar­chi­tec­tu­ral lu­xu­ry from the Age of En­ligh­ten­ment to the pre­sent day: the re­la­ti­ons­hip bet­ween ob­li­ga­ti­on and uti­li­ty, the pro­ble­ma­tic role of in­dus­tria­liza­ti­on in buil­ding, the ten­si­on bet­ween ar­chi­tec­tu­ral ob­jects and built space, and the en­suing ques­ti­on of the (ir)re­spon­si­ble con­sump­ti­on of ma­te­ri­al and spa­ti­al re­sour­ces.

Fri­day, 19 No­vem­ber 2021

• 14.00-15.30, Round Table 1
  Mo­de­ra­ti­on: Marie The­res Stauf­fer (Genève)
  «Lu­xu­ry – Re­p­re­sen­ta­ti­on, Os­ten­ta­ti­on, Ob­li­ga­ti­on»
• 16.00-17.30, Round Table 2
  Mo­de­ra­ti­on: Sonja Hil­de­brand (Men­d­ri­sio)
  «Ma­te­ri­al and Ideo­lo­gi­cal (Mis-)Use: The In­dus­tria­liza­ti­on of Con­st­ruc­tion»

Sa­tur­day, 20 No­vem­ber 2021 

• 9.00-10.30, Round Table 3
  Mo­de­ra­ti­on: André Bideau (Zü­rich / Men­d­ri­sio)
  «From Ob­jects to Spaces»
• 11.00-12.30, Round Table 4 
  Mo­de­ra­ti­on: Tibor Jo­a­nel­ly (Win­ter­thur)
  «(Mis-)Use of Space»