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Building Ruptures

Please join the MA Architectural History 2016-17 cohort forÌýBuilding Ruptures, a symposium, exhibition and book launch.ÌýBuilding RupturesÌýwill feature a series of position papers from guest speakers, presentations by graduating students, discussions with guest respondents and an exhibition of students’ work. The symposium sessions will cover a diverse range of topics includingÌýterritories and places, materialities and subjectivities, histories and materialisms, site writing and theorising practices.

Keynotes:ÌýStuart Elden (University of Warwick), Owen Hatherley (Writer) and Katie Lloyd Thomas (University of Newcastle).ÌýRespondent:ÌýJon Astbury (Architects' Journal)Ìý

The event is free and open to all with no registration required. Contact:ÌýProfessor Peg Rawes

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9:30 Welcome

10:00 Panel 1
Keynote: Professor Stuart Elden,ÌýTerrain: The Materiality of Territory
Chair: DrÌýRobin Wilson

10:30 Presentations
Kirti Durelle,ÌýAgency at the threshold: Maronage as subaltern spatial practiceÌý
Joe Crowdy,ÌýSummer Land to Winter Land: Time and labour in the Isle of Ely, 1634-1652Ìý
Albert Brenchat Aguilar,ÌýAgainst Landscape Representations. Negotiations with Plants: theÌý‘Garden in Movement’ of Gilles Clément
Abhishek Senapati,ÌýBaths and Biopolitics: the constructed affect of public healthÌý

11:45ÌýPanel 2
Keynote: Professor Katie Lloyd Thomas,ÌýBuilding Relations
Chair: Dr Barbara Penner

12:15 Presentations
Andreas Overgaard, Fabricating place in Copenhagen’s post-industrial inner harbour: Kvæsthusprojektet and the ideology of ‘human centred architecture’
±Ê²¹´Ç±ô²¹Ìý°ä²¹³¾²¹²õ²õ´Ç,ÌýTerremoto in Palazzo: a disruptive historiography of the Vele of Scampia
Will McMahon,ÌýInto the Habit: The architecture of the solitude at Fountains Abbey

14:00 Panel 3
Keynote: Owen Hatherley,ÌýModernism and the Left: Writing political history and architecture in Britain
Chair: Dr David Roberts

14:35 Presentations
Jane Huang,ÌýResidential Developments in Shanghai from 1949 to Present: the aspiration and manifestation of urban housing
Ilyas Azouzi,ÌýWorthy of the mother country: British Pavilions on the eve of the second World War
Marisa Daouti,ÌýThe subversion of power hierarchies by the spatialization of radical politics: The case of the Athenian city centre under the Western gaze
Grace Etherington,ÌýArt, architecture and the modern catholic church: William Mitchell’s contributions to two British cathedrals, 1960-1973

15:45ÌýPanel 4Ìý
Respondent: Jon Astbury. Chair: Professor Jane RendellÌý
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16.30ÌýPresentation of theÌýTheorising PracticesÌý·¡³æ³ó¾±²ú¾±³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô
17.00ÌýClosing comments

17:30 – 20.30 Book launch and drinks reception
18:00 Music Performance, Sean McBride (of Martial Canterel, Xeno & Oaklander)

Images:
1.ÌýThe Vele, Scampia, Naples, 2017
2.ÌýA Turkish market from street, Green Lanes, July 2017
3. Fountains Abbey: a location of solitude
4.ÌýThe domestic interior of a shop-house built in the 1970s, Port Louis, Mauritius. Lee 2017
5.ÌýAthens as a space of mourning
6. William Mitchell, bell-tower relief, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 1967
7. William Mitchell, 'Jesus is crucified', Clifton Cathedral, 1973
8. An Island at the Garden in Movement in Parc André Citroën.ÌýBrenchat, A. 2017Ìý
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