AKADEMIA SZTUK PIEKNYCH W GDANSKU  THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN GDANSK
architektura + dialog  architecture + dialog
 Podyplomowe Studium Projektowania  Postgraduate Design Program
   
  teoria architektury  architecture theory
 LEKTORIUM BIENNALE  LEKTORIUM BIENNALE
 moderatorzy: jacek dominiczak, monika zawadzka  moderators: jacek dominiczak, monika zawadzka

9. architecture biennale in venice. re-reading the key texts.

spring 2005: Rem Koolhaas

Agnieszka Majkowska. Reading and writing . foto:jd

 

At the very entrance to the Venetian Arsenale one could hear the text by Kurt W. Forster, the curator of the 9. International Architecture Exhibition. Here is the passage from it which refers to the "crossroads around 1980" key books:

"During the 1970s and 1980s, journals fuelled debate and engaged critical positions hitherto overlooked. A few key books focused attention on past and present phenomena in light of the critical isssues of the moment: Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour; Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas and A Scientific Autobiography by Aldo Rossi all enlarged personal experiences and reflections to the scale of the expanding metropolis, whereas historical studies like La sfera e il labirinto by Manfredo Tafuri and the semiotics of Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco were tools eagerly adopted by architectural criticism."

The LECTORIUM BIENNALE is undertaking an effort to re-read the books listed by Mr Forster. However, the lectorium will refer also to other books by the same authors, when the dialogic perspective will require it.

We will not read all the books. Still, the following six texts are the Fall 2004 & Spring 2005 semester's theme:

 

 fall 2004

spring 2005

 ROBERT VENTURI

 ALDO ROSSI

  REM KOOLHAAS
         
Learning from Las Vegas Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture A Scientific Autobiography The Architecture of the City Delirious New York  S,M,L,XL
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour Robert Venturi  Aldo Rossi  Aldo Rossi  Rem Koolhaas OMA, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau
 1972, 1977  1966, 1977  1981

1966 - first publication in Italian: L'architettura della cita.

1982 - English translation.

1978 - first edition by Oxford University Press.

1994 - new edition by the Monacelli Press

 1995
 The MIT Press MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art  The MIT Press   The MIT Press  The Monacelli Press  The Monacelli Press

Rem Koolhaas

 PRESENCE

Absence is the highiest form of presence.

moderator: jacek dominiczak

01.06.2005. LECTORIUM BIENNALE: jacek dominiczak on rem koolhaas. foto: mz.

Aldo Rossi

moderator: monika zawadzka

 The Architecture of the City  
 Aldo Rossi  
part 1: the structure of urban artifacts  
15.11.2004. Lectorium Biennale. Monika Zawadzka on Aldo Rossi. foto:mr  
 part 2: primary elements and the concept of area  
   
 part 3: the individuality of urban artifacts; architecture  
   
 part 4: the evolution of urban artifacts  
3.01.2005. LEKTORIUM BIENNALE. Monika Zawadzka's course on Aldo Rossi. foto:asz  

 

 

Robert Venturi Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour

moderator: jacek dominiczak

 Learning from Las Vegas  Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour  Robert Venturi
 part 1: space, symbol, communication, persuasion part 1: A Gentle Manifesto
0811.2004. Lectorium on Robert Venturi moderated by Jacek dominiczak. foto:mz 10.01.2005. LEKTORIUM. Learning from Robert Venturi. Agnieszka Majkowska is writing her gentle manifesto on architecture. foto:jd
 part 2: city mapping  part 2: Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness
22.11.2004. LEKTORIUM. Venturi, Scott-Brown, Izenour. Las Vegas i Nolliego mapa Rzymu (na foto). [ar+di] foto:MR 17.01.2005. LEKTORIUM. Learning from Robert Venturi. foto:mz
 part 3: Decorated Shed and Ornament  part 3: Accomodation and the Limitations of Order: The Conventional Element.
  25.01.2005. LECTORIUM BIENNALE. Agnieszka Majkowska and Kasia Zawistowska. foto:mz
part 4: Post Scriptum: Re-learning from Las Vegas. Interview with Denise Scott-Brown and robert Venturi. By Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist. In: AMOMA, Rem Koolhaas, Simon Brown, John Link: Content. Taschen 2004.  
20.12.2004. lectorium on robert venturi. jacek dominiczak and agnieszka szeffel. foto:mz  

 

 

 drzwi [ar+di]

strona glowna [ar+di]

diaade

  asp w gdansku

ppa asp gd

© 2003-2005 architektura + dialog . Podyplomowe Studium Projektowania. wszystkie prawa zastrzezone