Death of the author, centre and meta-theory: future histories of urban design

9/10/2023, h. 16:30
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 11, AULA O.2
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Ciclo di seminari ‘UD – Rethinking urban design genealogie’

The lecture by Tom Avermaete is organized in the framework of the “UD – Rethinking Urban Design Genealogies”, an international seminar organized at DAStU – Politecnico di Milano by Gaia Caramellino and Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi. The Seminar aims to present and compare three research positions in Urban Design History and Theory. David Grahame Shane (GSAPP Columbia, New York), Tom Avermaete (ETH, Zurich), and Eric Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis) will present their trajectories and discuss the different UD genealogies proposed, the cultural matrices, the chronologies and geographies of reference, and other historiographical and interpretative frameworks offered by their researches. The Seminar is supported by DAStU, Politecnico di Milano and organized in collaboration with GUD_Genealogy of Urban Design Network.

Relatore: Tom Avermaete

Prossimo incontro:
23/10/2023: Eric Mumford, “Defining Urban Design: from the CIAM Heart of the City to Urban Design, 1933-69”

Responsabili: Gaia Caramellino, Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi

Credits immagini: Michel Ecochard, Carrières Centrales, Casablanca, 1954