Come listen to Richard Hill from NYU London lecture about questions of representation in architectural drawings, arguing from a philosophical perspective that architectural drawings are pictorial mediums, rather than epistolary or diagrammatic tools. It is on Tuesday, October 22nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm in Silver 301.
Please join us in New York for an Open House on Wednesday, October 23rd from 5:00pm to 6:30pm in NYU Silver Center 302.
Program directors, faculty, and alumni will be there to discuss the program and answer your questions. Applications for 2019-20 are due March 1
Program directors, faculty, and alumni will be there to discuss the program and answer your questions. Applications for 2019-20 are due March 1
In this lecture, Phil Crew will give insight into the urban regeneration of London’s King’s Cross; its journey from dereliction to destination; and how a program of dead buildings and lifeless sites was transformed into a global exemplar of sustainable urban renewal.
NYU M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture
Open House / Information Session for 2019-20
Thursday, October 18, 6:00 p.m.
Silver Center 307
100 Washington Square East
Looking for a future path? Love old buildings? Why not make them new again? NYU’s London-based M.A. Program provides an immersion in adaptive reuse and sustainable building practice. Come learn about the program at our fall open house, featuring presentations about our faculty and curriculum, along with admissions information for 2019-20, and a discussion of career opportunities in the field. Academic directors and alumni will be there to discuss the program and answer your questions. Contact us at histsust@nyu.edu
Contact us at: histsust@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Kent State University Architecture Program; Associate of
the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, College of Architecture and Environmental Design,
Kent State University
Tuesday, May 1, 6:30 pm
New York University Department of Art History
Silver Center, Room 301
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)
In 1911, Italy held two international expositions—in Rome and Turin—to mark the 50th anniversary of the country’s unification. These little-known events provide a useful comparison, as their planners took highly divergent paths in addressing a fraught political and ideological context. Beyond its historical interest, this case allows us to interrogate prevalent approaches in exposition studies.
Over the last generation, most studies of World’s expositions and fairs have come from disciplinary positions associated with intellectual history or cultural studies. Many have focused
on the ideological goals of elites that organize these events. Alternatively, writers in the tradition of Walter Benjamin have emphasized the exposition as a laboratory for developing consumer visual practices. Neither of these approaches fully takes account of the complexity of the on-the-ground planning and design process. In the case of an exposition, that process involves the interactions of thousands of actors, responding to tight schedules and commercial pressures.
Drawing on ideas of Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour, this lecture treats the expositions of 1911 as instances in an ongoing series of apparatuses that deploy elite intentions, popular perceptions, and built artifacts in networked relationships. The result is neither phantasmagoria nor noiseless ideological transmission. Rather it is a narrative of redefinition and hybridization at the urban scale. Because exposition planners look at their predecessors, this narrative has a sequel, and in Italy, that story leads to the better-known events of the Fascist era, particularly the unrealized E42 exposition outside Rome, at which elements of the 1911 expositions were to be redeployed in surprising ways.
Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, New York Metropolitan chapter, and the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies
Free and open to the public
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It has been a time of change in the ways the historic environment is regarded. On the plus side, most people now see characterful historic neighborhoods as assets to be cherished. On the other hand, people are less prepared to accept top-down control and it is a challenge to keep up with modern values about what deserves protection. Roger Bowdler has just stood down from being director of listing at Historic England, the English government’s advisory body on the historic environment, where he was responsible for keeping the National Heritage List for England (a bit like the National Register) and all new recommendations for inclusion.
Fall Open House / Information Session for Current NYU Students with Directors Mosette Broderick and Jon Ritter
Tuesday, November 7, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Thursday, November 9, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
Silver Center 307
100 Washington Square East
Looking for a future path? Love old buildings? Why not make them new again? NYU’s London-based M.A. Program provides an immersion in adaptive reuse and sustainable building practice. Learn about the program at our Open House, featuring presentations about our faculty and curriculum, admissions information, and career opportunities in the field. Program directors and alumni will be there to discuss the program and answer your questions.
Sponsored by the NYU M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture
For more information, see our web pages: http://as.nyu.edu/arthistory/programs/graduate.html
Contact us at: histsust@nyu.edu
Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Reader in Architecture, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kent, School of Architecture
Thursday, October 12, 6:30 pm
New York University Department of Art History
Silver Center, Room 301
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)
British postmodernist architecture in the 1980s and 1990s looked ‘American’ to English eyes and many, including Charles Jencks, saw it as little more than a faint echo of a mainly New York or East Coast phenomenon. But quarter of a century later, it is becoming clear that British architects were drawing directly on their own Edwardian heritage. Timothy Britain-Catlin has spoken to the leading practitioners of the time and presents their architecture in a new light.
Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect who has been writing about architectural history for many years, both for a general readership and for those with an interest in the revolutionary changes in architectural thinking in early nineteenth-century England. He is deputy chairman of the 20th Century Society, and a member of the Southern Buildings Committee of the Victorian Society and the South East Regional Design Panel.
–Free and open to the public–