2019/20 seminars
Semester 1
Wed 25 Sep 2019 | Dr Moa Carlsson, ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art | ‘The Data Gaze: Design, Automation, and Politics of Aesthetics in Postwar Britain’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 2 Oct 2019 | Luke Pearson, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | ‘Toward a Videogame Urbanism’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 9 Oct 2019 | Dr Ray Lucas, University of Manchester | ‘Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isometric and Oblique Drawings’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Fri 11 Oct 2019 | Sam Barclay, Case Design, Mumbai | ‘The House to Collect Water’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1-2pm | View event >
Wed 16 Oct 2019 | Killian Doherty, ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art | ‘Extracts from a West African Utopia’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | Professor Adam Sharr and Dr Sam Austin, Newcastle University | ‘The University of Non-Stop Society’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 30 Oct 2019 | Laura Harty, ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art | ‘Butter Paper: Drawings Under the Surface’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 6 Nov 2019 | Elizabeth Deans Romariz, University of York | ‘Architects’ Books’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 13 Nov 2019 | Dr David Cunningham, University of Westminster | ‘Planetary Urbanisation and the Problem of Form: from Marx to Aureli’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 20 Nov 2019 | Simone Ferracina, ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art | ‘Towards a Glossary of Exaptive Design' | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Wed 27 Nov 2019 | Dr Nicholas Boyarsky, Oxford Brookes University / RMIT | ‘Bogdan Bogdanovich’s Mostar Partisans Necropolis’ | Adam House Lecture Theatre | 1pm - 2pm | View event >
Semester 2
Details to follow
Previous seminar series
2018/19
19 Sep 2018 | Ventilating Politics and The Politics of Ventilation, Henrik Schoenefeldt | Elliot Room, Minto House, Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
25 Sep 2018 | Harun Farocki on Technical and Virtual Images, Adam Jasper | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
3 Oct 2018 | Making Streamlines, Vortices and Plumes: Environmental Model Prototypes, Lisa Moffitt | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
10 Oct 2018 | Order & Disorder in Urban Spatial Form, Harry Smith | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
17 Oct 2018 | Worlding the Factory: A case study from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 1948-2018, Megha Chand Inglis | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
24 Oct 2018 | Legislative Architectures - Instituting Art, Law and Property, Lucy Finchett-Maddock | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
31 Oct 2018 | Thermal Performances: A method for interrogating the technical in architecture, Claudia Dutson | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
7 Nov 2018 | Is Architecture Turning Toward Production?, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Nick Beech & Tilo Amhof | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
14 Nov 2018 | Crowd to Cloud and Contract to Commons: Curating Control, Anne Bottomley | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
21 Nov 2018 | Crafting History: Archiving and the quest for architectural legacy, Albena Yaneva | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
28 Nov 2018 | Precision in Architectural Production: A 7-page specification for an unfinished ceiling, Mhairi Mcvicar | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
5 Dec 2018 | The Work of the Architect In Self-Managed Industrialisation, Tijana Stevanovic | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm - 2pm
23 Jan 2019 | Curating Derive (Geddes Visiting Fellow Seminar), Tina Di Carlo | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
30 Jan 2019 | Sketching Practice (Geddes Visiting Fellow Seminar), Tina Di Carlo | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
6 Feb 2019 | Writing in Space: Curatorial exercises in architectural drawing, Sophia Banou | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
13 Feb 2019 | Light Passes: Thinking the architectural exhibition geologically, Tiago Torres Campos | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
27 Feb 2019 | Objects and fields (George Simpson Visiting Professor Seminar), Stan Allen | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
28 Feb 2019 | Exhibiting Brutalism: Raw architecture in an untamed world, Ben Highmore | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
5 March 2019 | Space in photographs: A renaissance cure for present-day ills, Frank Doring | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 6:45pm - 7:45pm
6 March 2019 | Strange Bedfellows: An exhibition and its catalogue, Wallis Miller | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
13 March 2019 | Photographs of photographs: Disruptions and juxtapositions at the Miles Van Der Rohe Exhibition at Moma (1947 - 48), Catalina Mejia Moreno | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
20 March 2019 | Editing Inventions (Geddes Visiting Fellow Seminar), Tina Di Carlo | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
27 March 2019 | Fashioning the idle gaze (Geddes Visiting Fellow Seminar), Nicholas De Monchaux | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
3 April 2019 | Exhibiting on the surface, Mark Dorrian | Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street | 1pm
2017/2018
20 Sep | Liam Ross | Spectres of Edo Castle: Fire safety and "enforced cosmopolitanism" in Tokyo
27 Sep | Aikaterini Antonopoulou | The Online Presence of Golden Dawn and the Athenian Realities It Brings Forward
2 Oct | Richard Weller | Landscape Works
4 Oct | Mark Dorrian | On Michael Webb's Sin Centre and the Drawing of Mobility
11 Oct | Ana Bonet Miro | On Playgrounds and the Archive: Joan Littlewood’s Stratford Fair, 1967-1975
18 Oct | Catherine Ingraham | Place (rule) vs Space (actions)
25 Oct | Cristina Nan | Digital Ecologies and the Posthuman
1 Nov | Giorgio Ponzo | Architecture without End
15 Nov | Margaret Stewart and Peter Hagis | Animating architecture - an experiment in accessibility?
16 Nov | David Turnbull | Six images - six questions and one project"
22 Nov | Michael Webb | In conversation
29 Nov | Tahl Kaminer | Planning Appeals, Clandestine Policy Making, and Student Housing
6 Dec | Ella Chmielewska | Cover Stories: Blind Spots in Theory
2016/2017
28 September | Douglas Spencer | Affect and Individuation: Architecture and Experience in the Culture of Neoliberalism
5 October | Adam Bobbette | Cultures of Forecasting, Nature, and the Uncertainty of the Future
12 October | Glyn Davis | Waiting for something to happen: cinema and endurance
19 October | Isabelle Doucet | Architecture and Resistance: Within or against?
26 October | Anthony Auerbach | Reading Material: inscription, erasure, reconnaissance
2 November | Pablo Martinez | Andrea Branzi and the "Città senza Architettura": From the No-Stop City to Weak Urbanization Models
9 November | Linda Matthews | Pixel Versus Line: From the Digital Image to the Architectural Surface
16 November | Philip Goad | Marks on the Land, Crossing Currents: Identity and Australian Architecture
18 January | Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos | Spatial Justice: the violence of space
25 January | Nick Dunn | Dark Futures: the loss of night in the contemporary city?
1 February | Nat Chard | Devices of Indeterminacy
15 February | Stephen Graham | Vertical noir: Histories of the future in urban science fiction
16 February | Wang Shu | Lu Wenyu | In conversation
1 March | Sukanya Krishnamurthy | Public spaces and urban collective cultures
15 March | Andrew Herscher | Black and Blight
22 March | Luis Callejas | Title tbc
24 March | Tina Di Carlo | Exhibiting Architecture
29 March | Marc Schoonderbeek | Architectural Adjacencies: the dérive, mapping and 2.5D
5 April | Peter Salter | Walmer Yard: Housing
6 April | Maria Theodorou | The Enchantment of Things: Architects (dis)engagement with Space
3 May | Hugo Hinsley | Title tbc
10 May | Niall Hobhouse | Collections: Buildings and Drawings
2015/2016
Emily Brady | The Natural Sublime and the Self
Tom Weaver | This Has Killed That
Monika Bakke | Geologizing With Art: How to make kin among mineral species
Guan Lee | Clay Robotics at Grymsdke Farm
Aliki Economides | On Collective Memory and its Edification
Barry Bergdoll | Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright takes on Chicago, Co-hosted with the Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series
Francesca Hughes | The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision
Robin Wilson | Generic expectations and intermediary space: a reflexive architectural photography
Adrian Forty | On Nations and Materials: a nineteenth-century question revisited in the twenty-first century
Stefano Corbo | Archaeology of Infrastructures: a conceptual cartography
David Sorfa | Touch and History: The Body in Czech Phenomenology and 1960s Cinema
Hugh Campbell | Unconscious Places: Thomas Struth and the Architecture of the City
Lorens Holm | The City is a Thinking Machine - Or What We Might Call Spatial Consciousness
Dilip Da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur | Where does Design begin?
Mark West | The Control Question
Peg Rawes | Architectural Ecologies and Ratios
Simona Salvo | After the Ordeal: The Pirelli Tower in Milan and the conservation of metal and glass curtain walls
Katja Grillner | Enacting the Past, the Distant (or What is Not Here, But There): Performing Material Fictions (2013-2015)
Samantha Hardingham | Cedric Price Works - 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
Phillip Meuser | Seismic Modernism: Architecture and Housing in Soviet Tashkent
Jonathan Hill | A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction
Esther Leslie | Those in Glass Houses
2014/2015
Assemble Architects | Work in Progress
Nic Beech | Stuart Hall and the New Left: rethinking and reworking the metropole in the mid-1950s
Mark Dudek | Play Architecture
Harry Smith | Planning Issues
Film screening | How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Johanna Blocker | The Reconstruction of Architectural Monuments and Historic Townscapes
Fiona McLachlan | Colour and Contingency: Theory into Practice
David Cunningham | Architecture, Modernity and Acceleration(ism)
Stavros Stavides | On Urban Commoning: The City Shapes Institutions of Sharing
Tim Ingold | Knots and Joints …. / Atmosphere
Thomas Oles | Better: Toward a History of Dangerous Idea
Łukasz Stanek | Architectural Globalization in the Late Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait and Back
Stephen Walker | The Architecture of the Travelling Street Fair: Assembly, Apparatus, and a Guidebook
Perry Kulper | Madness in the Methods
Donald Mackenzie | History, Materiality, Morals: 'Futures Lag' in high-frequency trading
William Firebrace | Memo for Nemo
Katie Lloyd Thomas | The New Synthesist, Proprietary Specification, Ripolin and Elizabeth Benjamin’s East Wall
Paul Jones | Imagining Capitalist Futures: the architectural modelling of an urban development
Jonathan Mills | Revisiting the Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo - a proposal for an installation
Robin Moore | Interdisciplinary, evidence-based design education: reflecting on decades of ‘Human Use of the Urban Landscape’
Yue Zhuang | Liberty, Fear and the City of Sensations: Sir William Chambers’ Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772)
David Cunningham | Architecture, modernity and the idea of socialism
