Concepts of Sustainability

5/04/2022, h. 15:30
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 12, in presenza a invito
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A New Framework for Architectural Theory?

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Starting from Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative and its inherent conflict of “global” versus “individual” rationales, the seminar invites to discuss current understandings of sustainability in architecture and urban design, and their significance for contemporary architectural theory.

Dr. Christian Gänshirt is an architect, researcher and educator from Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, and his architecture diploma from Karlsruhe University. He currently is a Visiting Researcher at the Politecnico di Milano. He was a Senior Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, and a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Hong Kong, and at Kassel University. He taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the Berlin University of the Arts, Leibniz University Hanover, and the Brandenburg University of Technology. He was a project architect in the office of Álvaro Siza Vieira, and worked with architect José Paulo dos Santos in Oporto. He is registered with the Berlin Chamber of Architects since 1996 and co-edited the Internet architectural theory magazine [www.cloud-cuckoo.net]. His book Tools for Ideas – Introduction to Architectural Design has been published in German, English and Chinese.

Relatore: Christian Gänshirt, Berlin / Milano
Introduce: Massimo Bricocoli
Modera: Paolo Scrivano
Discussant: Arian Heidari Afshari, Marco Bovati, Gaia Caramellino, Pierre-Alain Croset, Alessandro Rocca, Giulia Setti, Francesca Zanotto

Responsabile: Paolo Scrivano