Category: Lecture
Abstraction and Autonomy in Architecture
Lecture
On 12 May 2026, Pier Vittorio Aureli delivered the keynote lecture Abstraction and Autonomy in Architecture at the 10th Rencontres de l’EDAR, the annual conference of the EPFL Doctoral Programme in Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR). Abstraction is the process through which we produce general frameworks out of the contingencies of our worldly (…)
The Winter of Our Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Project
Lecture
Pier Vittorio Aureli delivered the lecture The Winter of Our Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Project at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV), Venice, on 2 March 2026. The lecture analyzes the contemporary crisis in architecture, exploring the decline of the concept of the “project”—understood as a transformative and utopian vision—which (…)