A graduate student symposium dedicated to new research on the history of architectural education in the 20th century.

Education has persisted as a fundamental facet of architectural culture throughout a spectrum of aesthetic, scientific, ideological, institutional and political upheavals. Pervading the realms of both professional and experimental practices, and functioning as a potent medium for the dissemination of ideas and methods, architectural pedagogy’s multiple guises across different historical and international contexts offer a diverse range of lenses for critically examining the discipline’s continuing transformations. Recognizing the current emergence of much new research on the history of architectural education during the 20th century, this symposium seeks to create a platform for this expanding realm of scholarship.

Symposium Program

Friday, February 11, 2011

6:00pm / Keynote Lecture / “Studio to Lab: the Didactics of Modernization”Jean-Louis CohenSheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Visiting Professor, History and Theory, Princeton University School of Architecture

Saturday, February 12, 2011

9:00-9:30am / Registration

9:30-9:45am / Introduction

9:45-11:45am / Panel 1

"Research and Psychology: Kevin Lynch or the Idiosyncratic Roots of Urban Design at MIT" / Clément Orillard / Assistant Professor, ENSA de Versailles and Institut Français d’Urbanisme de l'Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

"'Long Live Individuality!' Psychotechnics and Architectural Pedagogy in Soviet Russia" / Alla Vronskaya / PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"'To the first machine that can appreciate the gesture': Nicholas Negroponte and the Architecture Machine Group" / Molly Wright Steenson / PhD candidate, Princeton University

Respondent: Lucia Allais / Behrman-Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Princeton University

1:30-3:30pm / Panel 2

"The A-building in Stockholm: A Structural Implementation of the Architecture Curriculum" / Frida Rosenberg / PhD candidate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

"Atelier Collégial n°1, Architectural Pedagogy According to Bernard Huet,1966-67" / Juliette Pommier / Associate Professor, ENSA Paris-Malaquais, France

"Did you say Architecture? Florence 1960s-1970s, a Students' Avant-garde and the Project of a Post-disciplinary Didactics of Architecture" / Manfredo di Robilant / Postdoctoral Fellow, Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Respondent: Jean-Louis Violeau / Research Fellow, Laboratoire ACS, ENSA Paris-Malaquais, France

4:00-5:30pm / Panel 3

"'The ‘architect’ is dead' and born again and again. Hannes Meyer’s Bauhaus Architecture as Biological Process" / Dara Kiese / PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center

"Prisoners of Ritoque" / Ana María Léon / PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Respondent: Claire Zimmerman / Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

5:30pm / Closing Remarks

Joan Ockman / Architectural Historian

Reception to follow

Information

Interested attendees please register via the symposium website: http://www.princeton.edu/tapDirections: http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/travel/

Email: practicingpedagogy@gmail.com

Teaching Architecture, Practicing Pedagogy

This event is sponsored by Princeton University's:

School of Architecture
Lewis Center for the Arts
Department of Art and Archaeology
Program in American Studies
Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure
Graduate Student Government
Department of History
Program in Latin American Studies
McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning
Program in Media + Modernity
Department of English
Department of Comparative Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department of French and Italian

Additional support has been provided by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

This symposium is organized by Vanessa Grossman, Enrique Ramirez and Irene Sunwoo.