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View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952
A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com
The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.
Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building
Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology
“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari
1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2
Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit
Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts
Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam
Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture
9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
SYMPOSIUM
Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1
Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen
5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University
Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen
Director of International Development, AREP, Paris
101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army
Former City Architect, Rotterdam
Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam
3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3
Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs
Laurens Tait
Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson
Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud
Mark Pimlott
CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES
PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tutor, Architectural Association, London
Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments
Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?
Welcome: Michiel Riedijk
Opening remarks: Filip Geerts
Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
9:00 am
Friday, May 23
Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Moderator: Han Meyer
Moderator: Rene van der Velde
Moderator: Jan Rot
Negar Sanaan Bensi
Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck
9:15 am
Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp
Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel
Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts
View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952
A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com
The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.
Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building
Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology
“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari
1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2
Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit
Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts
Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam
Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture
9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
SYMPOSIUM
Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1
Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen
5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University
Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen
Director of International Development, AREP, Paris
101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army
Former City Architect, Rotterdam
Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam
3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3
Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs
Laurens Tait
Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson
Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud
Mark Pimlott
CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES
PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tutor, Architectural Association, London
Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments
Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?
Welcome: Michiel Riedijk
Opening remarks: Filip Geerts
Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
9:00 am
Friday, May 23
Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Moderator: Han Meyer
Moderator: Rene van der Velde
Moderator: Jan Rot
Negar Sanaan Bensi
Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck
9:15 am
Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp
Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel
Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts
View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952
A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com
The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.
Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building
Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology
“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari
1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2
Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit
Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts
Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam
Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture
9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
6:00 pm Room B
SYMPOSIUM
Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1
Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen
5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University
Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen
Director of International Development, AREP, Paris
101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army
Former City Architect, Rotterdam
Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam
3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3
Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs
Laurens Tait
Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson
Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud
Mark Pimlott
CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES
PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Tutor, Architectural Association, London
Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments
Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?
Welcome: Michiel Riedijk
Opening remarks: Filip Geerts
Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
9:00 am
Friday, May 23
Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
Moderator: Han Meyer
Moderator: Rene van der Velde
Moderator: Jan Rot
Negar Sanaan Bensi
Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck
9:15 am
Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp
Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel
Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts