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"City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan and Architecture" by Penelope Haralambidou
City of Ladies is a cross-disciplinary research project, which aims to introduce and promote the work of medieval author Christine de Pizan to an architectural audience for the first time. In her celebrated text, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405, Christine describes the construction of an imaginary city, a female utopia built and inhabited by women. Her work has been seen as a proto-feminist manifesto, conflating the act of building with collecting stories of notable female figures from fiction and history and erecting a thesis against misogyny. Our research builds upon existing scholarship on the relationship between image and text in Christine’s work. It proposes an innovative, design-led analysis of the architectural and urban allegory in her text and a spatial remodelling of the accompanying illuminations (miniature illustrations). Performing history and theory through design, the research aims to establish Christine as the first speculative female architect and to project the powerful message of her allegorical city into the future.
Penelope Haralambidou is Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture and Director of Communications at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She coordinates MArch PG24, where she promotes a highly innovative research-based teaching methodology that uses digital film and immersive environments to re-think architectural design through time. Her research employs architectural drawing, model-making and digital film as investigatory tools to analyse ideas and work, not only in architecture, but also visual representation, the politics of vision, art and cinema. Her work has been exhibited internationally, she is the author of the monograph Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire (London: Routledge, 2013), and she has contributed writing on themes, such as architectural representation, allegory, figural theory, stereoscopy and film to a wide range of publications. Her solo show, ‘City of Ladies’, presenting her recent practice-led research on Christine de Pizan’s proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405, was hosted at DomoBaal gallery in 2020.
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The Berlage Sessions: "From Delineation to Drawing" by Noam Andrews
Though they reached the apex of both their visibility and importance in the sixteenth century, polyhedra have descended today into the somewhat kitsch realm of the trinket: prized for their symmetry and sold in museum stores, mused about on innumerable blogs, linked to on Pinterest pages, and available for purchase in various materials on Etsy or Amazon. Nevertheless, the casualness with which these geometries are presented as tangible entities, made to be cut out and folded together in children’s books and easily modeled on the computer, belies the radicality of their prehistory as the premier test subjects for a newly material engagement with geometry and geometrical knowledge. Adopted to hone precision measurement and perspective skills in Renaissance workshops and first surfacing at the dawn of printing as early visualizations of Euclid’s Elements, in the hands of early modern artisans and architects the Platonic solids (or “regular bodies”) evolved into an intense field of experimentation into and out of the third dimension, at once a new language of abstraction and a starting point for potentially limitless geometrical invention and form-making strategies. The lecture will trace how geometry, long before the abandonment of the parallel postulate in the nineteenth century, found itself increasingly under strain by its tensile connections to media and how the distortion of the solids, both formally and at the level of their interaction with an imperfect materiality, fashioned a new space for geometry around and outward from unstable objects rather than through the hegemonic, spatial definitions of perspective.
Noam Andrews, a historian and architect, is the author of The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century (MIT Press 2022). Based in Brussels, he received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University, and his architectural degrees from Cornell University and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He has taught at Ghent University in Belgium, New York University, and as Diploma Master at the Architectural Association, and has been the recipient of fellowships from Research Foundation Flanders, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Villa I Tatti - Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Besides The Polyhedrists, his recent published work deals with the spatiality of early modern outer space, the material ambiguity of early cosmological models, and the history of the racial profile in the geometrical work of Albrecht Dürer.
The Berlage
11/25/2022 11:44:00 AM
The Berlage Sessions: "From Drawing to Text" by Philippa Lewis
This lecture imagines how we tell stories from architecture by closely studying twenty-five architectural drawings from the several thousand in the Drawing Matter Archive in Somerset (UK)—the most recent from 1970 America, the oldest from Italy in 1780; some are anonymous works, others by architects famous or otherwise. Clearly, all were created with a purpose, but what were the intentions of the creators? What were the reactions of the onlookers— maybe clients, developers, builders, or just idlers? What is the human backstory? What is their social context? Avenues for historical research are wonderfully varied and can throw up unexpectedly surprising information. Clearly, we can only surmise, but research and imagination can lead us to create a plausible history. This in turn allows us to see the work not merely as a representation of a building but as a space to be inhabited by people.
Philippa Lewis studied history of architecture and the decorative arts; worked as a picture researcher and picture edi- tor for a wide range of publishers, on historical documentaries for TV, and on compilations of historical photography and ephemera. Her authored books include A Dictionary of Ornament (with Gillian Darley); Details, A Guide to House Design in Britain; Everything you can do in the Garden without actually Gardening; and Everyman’s Castle, the Story of our Cottages, Country Houses, Terraces, Flats, Semis and Bungalows. She is cofounder of and photographer for Edifice, a stock photo library of architecture specializing in the illustrations of building types, period style, material, and detail; this was acquired by Historic England in 2015. For the past five years she is contributor to the database of Drawing Matter Archive of Architectural Drawings, from which the drawings in Stories from Architecture were chosen.
The Berlage
12/2/2022 11:44:00 AM
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