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The Architect in Public Life Lecture

Event starts: 10 February 2012 18:00
Event ends: 10 February 2012 21:00

Location
The Mackintosh School of Architecture
11 Dalhousie Street
Glasgow G3

The Mackintosh School of Architecture Lecture 3 I The Architect in Public Life Lecture

Rolf Jenni and Tom Weiss, Principal Partners of Raumbureau, with Jan Kinsbergen Architect

Present-day architectural debate and production in Switzerland is dominated by a tendency to indulge regressive traditional imagery. Hidden within a deeply rooted culture of consensus and in unquestioning accord with the demands of the market, conventionalist values are established in order to resist the equalizing power and the uncertainty brought by globalization. Thus current architecture epitomizes a morally motivated suspicion toward anything experimental or radical. In opposition, Rolf Jenni, Tom Weiss and Jan Kinsbergen share the conviction, that architecture is itself the frame within which alternative forms of life and visions for the society are revealed and debated. They push the boundaries of convention because they believe that it has always been radical disciplinary thinking that advances architectural production. Their critique is not limited to Switzerland. It is an analysis of a general culture of relativism that regards the individual creative endeavor as a reoccurring spectacle, rather than a means to progress.


Friday 10 February 2012 18:00-21:00
£7.00 advance booking online | £10.00 on the door

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