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8 February 2019: Innovations in architecture often rely on energy transitions: an abundance of coal allowed for the single paned glass façade of the Bauhaus; the Seagram’s building emerged in concert with increased flows of oil.
This talk will focus on the latter case, examining debates around architecture and energy in the 1950s, and exploring the specific means through which design ideas intensified energy demand.
Birkbeck’s new MA in History of Architecture We are excited to announce our new MA in History of Architecture. The MA will be launched in October 2019 and is already taking applications for admission. Students can also apply for the… Continue Reading →
Call for Applicants to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme The ASSC welcomes contact from early career academics interested in applying for a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to be held at Birkbeck. These prestigious awards are intended to provide… Continue Reading →
Civic Centre: Architecture, Civic Design, and the Municipal Project in Interwar Norwich Neal Shasore (University of Liverpool) 7 December 6pm Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD This paper discusses the emergence of a new… Continue Reading →
Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital: a genealogy of individual and collective intelligence in his architecture Sophia Psarra (Bartlett School of Architecture) 9 November 6pm Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD In the 1960s Le Corbusier designed a hospital to… Continue Reading →
Call for Papers Building-Object/Design-Architecture: Exploring Interconnections 6-8 June 2019, Clore Business School, Birkbeck, London A conference jointly supported by the Design History Society, the European Architectural History Network, and the Architecture Space and Society Centre (Birkbeck). Deadline for… Continue Reading →
The organisers of the “Ha Ha: The Weirdness of Walls” Symposium (8th June 2018), Christina Parte and Miloš Kosec, reflect on the event. A wall seems like an all-too obvious architectural element: one of the simplest and oldest technologies of… Continue Reading →
With a focus on housing and public space, the first of three sessions co-organised by the ICA, the Architecture Space and Society Centre at Birkbeck (ASSC), and the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE), brought together… Continue Reading →
Whether precarious conditions are extended indefinitely, or whether, within the pendulum swing of a wrecking ball, the apparently solid is made ephemeral, the line between the temporary and the permanent can be a fine one. The second in a series… Continue Reading →
