Jacques Lucan & Joan Ockman

LES RENCONTRES DE L’EDAR

La recherche de cohĂ©rences aventureuses – JACQUES LUCAN

Lundi 3 juin 2019, 18:00
Project Room, bĂątiment SG, EPFL

Rechercher, c’est construire des cohĂ©rences pour des faits disparates, ou proposer de nouvelles constructions plus fortes que les prĂ©cĂ©dentes. Ces cohĂ©rences sont aventureuses parce qu’elles ne sont jamais dĂ©finitives. 
Les recherches que Jacques Lucan mĂšne regardent la comprĂ©hension de l’architecture, notamment contemporaine, d’un point de vue intrinsĂšque, c’est-Ă -dire du point de vue de la conception architecturale et de ses paramĂštres, de ce que l’on appelle la thĂ©orie de l’architecture…

A brief history of architectural research – JOAN OCKMAN

Tuesday 4 June 2019, 18:00
Project Room, SG building, EPFL

When did research cease to be a sedulous, nerdy, gray activity undertaken in fluorescent-lit laboratories and dusty archives and become a fetishistic activity carried out in design studios? How and when did it overtake theory and history in the architecture school curriculum? This lecture will raise some questions about the ways architectural research and its curation are related to a contemporary digital-global society and will contrast the intellectual culture of architecture schools today and in the past.