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HiPotheses: Histories, Projects, and the State of Architectural Knowledge (insegnamento su invito)

01TKVRK

A.A. 2024/25

Course Language

Inglese

Degree programme(s)

Doctorate Research in Architettura. Storia E Progetto - Torino

Course structure
Teaching Hours
Lezioni 18
Lecturers
Teacher Status SSD h.Les h.Ex h.Lab h.Tut Years teaching
De Pieri Filippo Professore Ordinario CEAR-11/A 2 0 0 0 1
Co-lectures
Espandi

Context
SSD CFU Activities Area context
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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. 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 six 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. We will discuss approaches and strategies to the production of knowledge coming from the history of ordinary architectural production (Tom Avermaete); the environmental history of the built environment (Samia Henni); the integration of recycling within design practices (Lionel Devlieger); the role of university-led experimental projects in pursuing strategies for spatial justice (Dana Cuff); the global decentralization of professional practice and culture in landscape architecture (Jala Makhzoumi); the new interest for materiality as a challenge for teaching and research programs in architecture (David Wendland). The course is articulated in six seminars of a three-hour duration. These are intended as key moments of plenary discussion involving both the students and the professors of the doctoral program. Although formally presented by Filippo De Pieri as the program coordinator, the course is the outcome of a shared initiative from the members of DASP’s Academic Board.
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 six 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. We will discuss approaches and strategies to the production of knowledge coming from the history of ordinary architectural production (Tom Avermaete); the environmental history of the built environment (Samia Henni); the integration of recycling within design practices (Lionel Devlieger); the role of university-led experimental projects in pursuing strategies for spatial justice (Dana Cuff); the global decentralization of professional practice and culture in landscape architecture (Jala Makhzoumi); the new interest for materiality as a challenge for teaching and research programs in architecture (David Wendland). The course is articulated in six seminars of a three-hour duration. These are intended as key moments of plenary discussion involving both the students and the professors of the doctoral program. Although formally presented by Filippo De Pieri as the program coordinator, the course is the outcome of a shared initiative from the members of DASP’s Academic Board.
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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: - 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”. - Dana Cuff (Professor at UCLA (USA)): Dana Cuff is an architect and historian who engages spatial justice and cultural studies of architecture as a teacher, scholar, practitioner, and activist. Her leadership in urban innovation is widely recognized both in the US and abroad. In 2006, Cuff founded cityLAB, a research and design center that initiates experimental projects to explore metropolitan possibilities. Since 2013, Cuff has led a cross-disciplinary team at UCLA with a substantial multi-year award from The Mellon Foundation for the “Urban Humanities Initiative.” Dana Cuff publishes and lectures extensively about the modern American metropolis, architectural agency, affordable housing, and architecture’s potential for creating more just cities. Her books include: Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City (MIT Press, 2020), Architects’ People (with W.R. Ellis; 1989), Architecture: The Story of Practice (1989), The Provisional City (2000), and Fast Forward Urbanism (edited with R. Sherman, 2011). - Lionel Devlieger (Associate Professor at Ghent University /ROTOR (BE)): Devlieger trained as an architect and engineer in Ghent and Rome. He holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from Ghent University (2005) and Associate Professor in 'Cultural and Material History of Architectural Practice' at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University. In 2006 he co-founded ROTOR, a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment (https://rotordb.org). Within ROTOR, he managed research, exhibition and design projects until 2021. He is now a board member of ROTOR asbl/vzw. His publications include Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (with Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, James Westcott, 2023) - Samia Henni (Adjunct Professor at McGill U (CA)): Henni is a historian of the built, destroyed and imagined environments. She received her Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture from ETH Zurich and has taught at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, Geneva University of Art and Design, and Cornell University. Currently she is the co-chair of the University Seminar “Beyond France” at Columbia University, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Architecture and field: journal. She is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag 2017, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), which received the 2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (edition fink, 2024). She is also the maker of exhibitions, such as Performing Colonial Toxicity (Framer Framed, If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; gta Exhibitions, Zurich; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2023–4) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22). - 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. - 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).
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: - 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”. - Dana Cuff (Professor at UCLA (USA)): Dana Cuff is an architect and historian who engages spatial justice and cultural studies of architecture as a teacher, scholar, practitioner, and activist. Her leadership in urban innovation is widely recognized both in the US and abroad. In 2006, Cuff founded cityLAB, a research and design center that initiates experimental projects to explore metropolitan possibilities. Since 2013, Cuff has led a cross-disciplinary team at UCLA with a substantial multi-year award from The Mellon Foundation for the “Urban Humanities Initiative.” Dana Cuff publishes and lectures extensively about the modern American metropolis, architectural agency, affordable housing, and architecture’s potential for creating more just cities. Her books include: Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City (MIT Press, 2020), Architects’ People (with W.R. Ellis; 1989), Architecture: The Story of Practice (1989), The Provisional City (2000), and Fast Forward Urbanism (edited with R. Sherman, 2011). - Lionel Devlieger (Associate Professor at Ghent University /ROTOR (BE)): Devlieger trained as an architect and engineer in Ghent and Rome. He holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from Ghent University (2005) and Associate Professor in 'Cultural and Material History of Architectural Practice' at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University. In 2006 he co-founded ROTOR, a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment (https://rotordb.org). Within ROTOR, he managed research, exhibition and design projects until 2021. He is now a board member of ROTOR asbl/vzw. His publications include Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (with Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, James Westcott, 2023) - Samia Henni (Adjunct Professor at McGill U (CA)): Henni is a historian of the built, destroyed and imagined environments. She received her Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture from ETH Zurich and has taught at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, Geneva University of Art and Design, and Cornell University. Currently she is the co-chair of the University Seminar “Beyond France” at Columbia University, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Architecture and field: journal. She is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag 2017, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), which received the 2020 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (edition fink, 2024). She is also the maker of exhibitions, such as Performing Colonial Toxicity (Framer Framed, If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; gta Exhibitions, Zurich; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2023–4) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22). - 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. - 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).
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Oral presentation
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