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AR-666: Contemporary modernity

Summary

The seminar will revisit notions, works, architects, and authors of XXIth century Modernism. It will question the issue of "being contemporary" - matching the characteristics of the era you live. Learning outomes: history of ideas, evolution of concepts, synthetic approach to research.

Lectures

Instructor

Christophe van Gerrewey

Christophe Van Gerrewey (1982) is an architecture critic and theorist, writing about contemporary buildings, their recent histories and intellectual dimensions, and their connections to society, philosophy, art and literature. In particular, he is an expert on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas as well as on Belgian architecture. He is one of the editors of architecture journal OASE, and of art and culture journal De Witte Raaf. In his writings, architecture is considered as a source of comprehensive and integrated knowledge that pertains to diverse disciplines – a way of looking at, and of understanding, many aspects of the world we live in. This gives his activities an unusually broad and comprehensive aspect, transcending divisions of knowledge. Since 2015, he is Assistant Professor Tenure Track of architecture theory at EPFL Lausanne. He was trained as an architect-engineer at Ghent University and as a literary theorist at KU Leuven. In Dutch, his mother tongue, he has published three novels and a collection of essays between 2013 and 2017.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/contemporary-modernity-AR-666

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/AR-666

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Christophe van Gerrewey

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/contemporary-modernity-AR-666

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/AR-666

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