The course aims at articulating a reflection upon the evolution of the relationship between the two fields of knowledge that are situated at the core of the identity of the DASP: architectural/urban history, on the one hand, and architectural/urban design, on the other hand. Both fields have been touched by strong epistemological changes in recent times. Their relationship, which could be understood as a mutual and nearly exclusive dialogue until a few years ago, is increasingly mediated by various forms of inter-disciplinary experiences that have brought them to consolidate links with various branches of the humanities and the hard and natural sciences. How to rethink the dialogue between history and design in such a changing context? “HiPotheses” will encourage highly reputed international scholars belonging to one of the two disciplinary fields (often to both) to present their approach to research and to discuss the epistemological problems currently faced by architectural historians and designers in their work. The selection of speakers reflects a variety of approaches to architectural research, all of which find an echo in some of the research practices promoted within the PhD program. The seminars are intended as key moments of plenary discussion involving both the students and the professors of the doctoral program. Although formally presented by the program coordinator, the course is the outcome of a shared initiative from the members of DASP’s Academic Board. Course calendar: Antonio Pizza de Nanno 17/02, 14,30, Sala Mollino David Wendland 12/03, room tbd Jala Makhzoumi 25/03, 10,30, Sala Mollino Ana Tostões 15/04, Salone d'Onore, as part of the DASP Day Mia Fuller 3/06, 14,30, Sala Mollino Tom Avermaete 13/06, 10,30, Sala Mollino José Ignacio Linazasoro date and room tbd

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The course aims at articulating a reflection upon the evolution of the relationship between the two fields of knowledge that are situated at the core of the identity of the DASP: architectural/urban history, on the one hand, and architectural/urban design, on the other hand. Guest lecturers: Antonio Pizza de Nanno (UPC) is an architect by the University Institute of Venice (IUAV, 1981) and Dr. of Architecture by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, 1989). He is professor (with Full Professor credentials) of History of Art and Architecture at ETSAB (UPC), where he teaches since 1982. He has been guest professor and has taught courses and conferences in various universities in Italy, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Chile and Venezuela. He has organized several exhibitions and has founded and edited manifold journals and book collections. His research focuses on the interrelations between art and architecture. His recent publications include La ciudad en el cine (2022), Crossing frontiers. International Networks of Spanish Architecture (2021), Imagining the Mediterranean house : Italy and Spain in the 50s (2019). David Wendland (Professor at TU Cottbus (D)): Wendland is Full Professor in Construction History at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg since 2019. He studied architecture at the universities of Darmstadt, Venice IUAV, and Stuttgart.He obtained a PhD in 2007 at the University of Stuttgart with Prof. Phil. D. Kimpel, with a thesis on “Lassaulx and vaulted construction with self-supporting wall layers. “New medieval architecture around 1825-1848”. Between 2012 and 2017 he was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant “Design Principles in Late-Gothic Vault Construction: A New Approach Based on Surveys, Reverse Geometric Engineering and Reinterpretation of the Sources”. He also obtained the ERC Proof of Concept Grant “Late Gothic vaults and their complex stone members: Recovering historical design procedures, implementing knowledge in restoration practice” (2016-2017). His books include Traces of Making: Shape, Design and Construction of Late Gothic Vaults (2016). Jala Makhzoumi (Adjunct Professor at American University of Beirut (LB)): Makhzoumi is an Iraqi landscape architect. She researches subjects within landscape design, including sustainable urban greening and postwar recovery strategies. After graduating from Yale University, Makhzoumi taught Environmental sciences at the University of Technology of Baghdad. After the first Gulf war of 1990, she relocated to the UK, where she obtained a PhD in Landscape architecture at the University of Sheffield. In 2023, she was elected vice president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects. She is also the Middle East Chapter president of the IFLA. Makhzoumi is co-founder of "UNIT44", a Lebanon-based design and planning practice of landscape and urban design, and landscape architecture. Makhzoumi has co-authored books such as Ecological Landscape Design and Planning: The Mediterranean Context and The Right to Landscape. Ana Tostões (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa) is an architect (ESBAL, 1982), architecture historian (UNL, 1994) and former chair of DOCOMOMO International. She is professor at the Civil Engineering and Architecture Department of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, where she is in charge of the architectural history and theory disciplines. She has been coordinating the master's degree in architecture (2007-2009). She was awarded the “Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture 1965” in 2024. Her research field is the history of architecture and the city of the twentieth century, in which she develops an operative view oriented towards the conservation of modern architecture, focusing especially on post-war architectural culture and relations between Iberian, African and American modernity. Mia Fuller Mia Fuller (UC Berkeley, Department of Italian Studies) is a cultural anthropologist and urban-architectural historian whose research concerns the interplays of physical space with political power. She has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism. She is currently completing a revised edition (in Italian) of this book, as well as a new book titled Monuments and Mussolini: A Cultural History of Fascist Memory. Tom Avermaete (Professor at ETH (CH)): Tom Avermaete holds the Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design at the ETH Zurich since 2018. The Chair investigates the histories and theories of urban development as critical and prospective capacities, which can forge connections in the present between the past and the future. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Avermaete has also edited numerous books, including Architecture and the Welfare State (2014, with Mark Swenarton and Dirk van den Heuvel) and Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History (2021, with Janina Gosseye). He is a member of the editorial team of “OASE Architectural Journal” and the advisory board of the “Architectural Theory Review”. José Ignacio Linazasoro is an architect by the School of Architecture of Barcelona, 1972 and PhD by the School of Architecture of Barcelona, 1980. He has taught in the School of Architecture of San Sebastián (1977-82), been a cathedratic in the School of Architecture of Valladolid (1982-88) y and in the School of Architecture of Madrid since 1988. Linazasoro works as well as a correspondant academic of Architecture in the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 1987. Linazasoro has been invited to the schools of Venice, Central London Polytechnic, Princeton and Pamplona, among others. His built work includes the School of Engineers in Bilbao (2005), the square in Barakaldo (2008), the Museum of Fine Arts in Gran Canaria (2015). He has restored the church of Santa Cruz in Medina de Rioseco, Valladolid (1985-88), the convent of Santa Teresa in San Sebastián (1983-91), the church of San Lorenzo de Valdemaqueda in Madrid (1997-2001), and the square in front of Reims cathedral (1992-2007).

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