CVs of guest lecturers Daniel Barber is Professor of Architectural History at the Sydney University of Technology. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton and has held research fellowships at, among among others, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Rachel Carson Center, and the Max Planck Institut. His research focuses on a historical reinterpretation of 20th century architectural modernism century in the light of the questions posed by the histories of the environment and globalisation. È co-founder of 'Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment', a research group on the research group on writing architectural history from an environmental perspective (currentcollective. org). Among other things, he has published A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (New York, Oxford University Press, 2016). As part of the excellence course, the talk will be based on the volume entitled Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton, Princeton University Press 2020). Barnabas Calder is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Liverpool. A specialist in the history of post-World War II British architecture, he has long worked on the New Brutalism and in particular the work of Denys Lasdun, on whom he is preparing a monograph monograph conducted with the support of the Graham Foundation and the RIBA. His work is characterised by a close link between scholarly research and the search for a new public role for the historian, supported by an intense activity as a publicist and polemicist. His most recent research interrogates the relationships between architecture, energy and resources over the long term, arriving at a radical rewriting radical rewriting of the periodisations and implications of architectural history on a global scale. In the context of the course of excellence, the talk will move from the volume entitled Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (London, Pelican, 2021). Stéphane Frioux is Maître de Conférences en Histoire Contemporaine at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. He is a specialist in urban environmental history, with a focus on the history of urban pollution in modern and contemporary times. He is a member of the editorial board of "Histoire Urbaine" and the "European Society for Environmental History" and president of the "Réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale'. Among other things, he has published Les batailles de l'hygiène. Villes et environnement de Pasteur aux Trente Glorieuses (Paris, PUF, 2013). In the context of the excellence course, the talk will be based on the collective work, which he directed, entitled Une France en transition. Urbanisation, risques environnementaux et horizon écologique dans le second XXe siècle (Ceyzérieu, Champ Vallon, 2021). Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the Department of Geography and King's College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the historical geography of contemporary cities between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular attention to the relationships between landscape, infrastructure, biodiversity and a critical reading of the transformations territorial transformations linked to the capitalist economy. He has been a visiting scholar or professor at various universities (Columbia University, UCLA, TU Berlin, etc.) and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université de Louvain. He founded and directed the UCL Urban Laboratory. His publications include: Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002; Spiro Kostof Award, 2003); The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (Cambridge, MA,The MIT Press, 2014; IPHS Book Prize 2016) . In the context of the excellence course, the talk will be based on the volume entitled Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2022). Sébastien Marot, a philosopher and historian by training, teaches History and Theory of Architecture and of the environment at the École d'Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est. He directed the Société Française des Architectes and the magazine Le Visiteur. He has taught at several international international schools of architecture and landscape architecture (Harvard GSd, Cornell, ETH...) and was a researcher at the CCA in Montreal. Among other things, he has published L'art de la mémoire, le territoire et l'architecture (Paris, Éditions de La Villette, 2010) and edited the re-edition of the work by Oswald Mathias Ungers, Rem Koolhaas et al, City Within the City. Berlin: A Green Archipelago (Zurich, Lars Müller, 2013). Since the 1910s, his research has focused on the themes of the relationship between architecture, energy and agriculture, work that culminated in the exhibition Taking the Country's Side, curated for the 2019 Lisbon Triennale and still circulating in several European cities. As part of the excellence course, the talk will move from the exhibition and the volume Taking the Country's Side: Agriculture and Architecture (Lisbon, Polígrafa, 2020).

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The course aims to take a close look at and discuss a series of research experiences which, in recent years recent years, have brought the themes of environment and resources to the centre of the histories of architecture the city and the territory. Questions related to the environmental crisis are acting as a powerful renewal factor in historical studies, leading to the observation of new objects, the to the experimentation of investigative practices, to the construction of new interdisciplinary perspectives, to the formulation of different forms of exchange between research, teaching and public dissemination of knowledge. The course will bring, for the first time at the Politecnico di Torino, some of the leading international specialists international specialists in the environmental history of architecture, who will be asked to present research in recently concluded and to discuss the present problems and future potential of this field of investigation. future potential of this field of investigation.

On site

Oral presentation

P.D.2-2 - May

The course will be held in spring or autumn 2023