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Who develops, finances, and commissions architecture—and in whose interest? This lecture series examines the often-invisible forces that shape architectural production—the clients who commission, the contractors who build, and the capital flows that determine what gets realized. While architects are trained to focus on design, the political economy of construction is largely absent from architectural education—sustaining a disciplinary insularity that obscures architecture's deep entanglement with capital, labor, and power. Yet building is fundamentally contingent: dependent on forces beyond the designer's reach, shaped by actors whose decisions constrain and enable architecture far more than design intentions. The series invites scholars and practitioners …
Collective Repair presents examples of pedagogical and curatorial work produced from within the framework of the Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT and contenting with topics of repair and collectivity. These include: the Collective Architecture Studio series aimed at actively reconfiguring the way that architectural authorship flows, is understood, and is addressed in the context of academia, while simultaneously considering ways that collective ownership has historically, and might yet shape architectural outcomes. Ana Miljački is a historian, critic, curator and Professor of Architecture at MIT, where she directs the SMArchS program. In 2018, Miljački launched MIT’s Critical Broadcasting Lab (CBL), engaged …
DES CÈDRES À DORIGNY, BÂTIR L’ÉCOLE D’ARCHITECTURE 04.03-29.09.2026 Vernissage ! Mardi 3 mars 18h30 — School Lecture donnée par l’Atelier Scheidegger Keller suivie d’une introduction à l’exposition 19h30 — Ouverture des portes et apéritff Articulée autour de projets architecturaux construits ou non réalisés conservés dans les fonds des Archives de la construction moderne, l’exposition Des Cèdres à Dorigny retrace la naissance et l’évolution de l’école d’architecture à Lausanne. De ses débuts au sein de l’EPUL jusqu’à son intégration sur le campus de l’EPFL, cette traversée historique met en perspective les conditions de l’enseignement de l’architecture, ses relations avec l’ingénierie, ainsi …
Reading La ville et son sol, now translated into French in its entirety for the first time, gives a full picture of the trajectory of progressive urban planning, bringing together the contrasting urban visions of the great architects of the last century. From a 21st-century perspective, Bernoulli's thinking appears to be a particularly fruitful contribution to rethinking soil as a renewable resource and reclaiming its nature as a common good. Introduction by Florian Hertweck Postface by Elena Cogato Lanza and Mireille Senn Florian Hertweck is an architect and head of the master’s programme in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg. …
