Graham Harman: Is there an Object-oriented Architecture?

Philosopher Graham Harman’s radical reading of Heidegger is discussed by six eminent architectural thinkers. Harman is joined by Peter Carl, Jonathan Hale, Lorens Holm, Patrick Lynch, Peg Rawes and Adam Sharr

Venue

The Swendenborg Society
20–21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Date

22 Jun 2013

Programme

7:00pm, Wednesday 1 May 2013
Peg Rawes, Nonhuman Architectural Ecologies
Patrick Lynch, The Resistance of Things

7:00pm, Wednesday 15 May 2013
Jonathan Hale, Coping without noticing?: Buildings as Tool-Beings
Adam Sharr, A House With One Wall

7:00pm, Wednesday 29 May 2013
Lorens Holm, Architecture and Its Objects
Peter Carl, A Punkt in Spice

5.30pm, Saturday 22 June 2013
Graham Harman, What Objects Mean for Architecture
Roundtable Discussion, + Q & A

 

 

Peg Rawes - Nonhuman Architectural EcologiesPLAY

Location

London

Date

1 May 2013

Duration

43:13

Biography

Peg Rawes is professor at University College London and author of Irigaray for Architects (Routledge, 2007); Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: through Kant and towards Deleuze (Pallgrave Macmillan, 2008); and Architectural Relational Ecologies (Routledge July 2013).

Patrick Lynch – The Resistance of ThingsPLAY

Location

London

Date

1 May 2013

Duration

55:35

Biography

Patrick Lynch is principle of Patrick Lynch architects. He is author of several book chapters including: ‘The Theatricality of the Baroque City – The Zwinger and Dresden,’ in The Theatricality of the Baroque City (Verlag Dr. Muller, 2011) and “Topography, Topology, Type and Archetype,” in Thinking Practice (Black Dog, 2007)

Jonathan Hale - Coping without noticing?: Buildings as Tool-BeingsPLAY

Location

London

Date

15 May 2013

Duration

49:15

Biography

Jonathan Hale is an architect and Associate Professor & Reader in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is the Course Director for the interdisciplinary MA in Architecture and Critical Theory. He is the author of Merleau-Ponty for Architects (Routledge 2013)

Adam Sharr - A House With One WallPLAY

Location

London

Date

15 May 2013

Duration

102:36

Biography

Adam Sharr is professor at Newcastle University and author of Heidegger’s Hut (MIT Press, 2006) and Heidegger for Architects (Routledge, 2007). He is the series editor for Routledges Thinkers for Architects series and editor of Architecture Research Quarterly

Lorens Holm - Architecture and Its ObjectsPLAY

Location

London

Date

29 May 2013

Duration

54:38

Biography

Lorens Holm is professor at Dundee University and author of numerous articles on Jacques Lacan and including “What Lacan said re: architecture” and “Vignettes of Death: Architecture and the Death Drive” and the book Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity (Routledge, 2010)

Peter Carl - A Punkt in SpicePLAY

Location

London

Date

19 May 2013

Duration

130:07

Biography

Peter Carl graduated from Princeton University and taught at Cambridge University for thirty years both in design and in the graduate program in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. After developing the PhD program in architecture at the London Metropolitan University, he took up a post as visiting professor at the GDS, Harvard University. His research interests includes contemporary architecture and urban reality.

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Graham Harman - What Objects Mean for ArchitecturePLAY

Location

London

Date

22 June 2013

Duration

39:03

Biography

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Arts Program Coordinator at SCI-Arc. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently Art and Objects (Polity, September 2019). Graham is the 2009 winner of the AUC Excellence in Research Award. In 2015 he was named by ArtReview as the #75 most powerful influence in the international art world, and in 2016 was named by The Best Schools to their alphabetical list of the 50 most influential living philosophers.

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Roundtable Debate - Is there an Object-Oriented Architecture?PLAY

Location

London

Date

22 June 2013

Duration

39:03

Participants

Peg Rawes, Patrick Lynch, Jonathan Hale, Adam Sharr Lorens Holm and Peter Carl

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