Lecture Series: Materiality in the History and Theory of Architecture

November 17, 2022-April 27, 2023
Ghent
Belgium

Program

Simon Barker (Ghent University)
The processes between use and (re)use: carvers, builders, middlemen, and their roles in the Roman and late antique recycling industry
17 November 2022, 17:00-18:30 – VANDENHOVE

Christine Wall (University of Westminster, London)
Constructing Concrete: how oral histories reveal and inform architectural production
29 November 2022, 18:00-19:30 – VANDENHOVE

Hannah le Roux (University of Witswaterrand, Johannesburg)
Circulating Asbestos: Afterwards
15 December, 17:00-18:30 – VANDENHOVE

Fabio Barry (Warburg Institute, London)
Lecture: Painting in Stone: Reloaded?
1 March 2023, 17:00-18:30 – VANDENHOVE

Workshop: “Monumenting”: Poetry and Architecture
2 March 2023, 11:00-13:00 – Kleine Vergaderzaal, Rommelaere

 Réjean Legault (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Lecture: Brutalism and the Materialities of Postwar Architecture
26 April 2023, 17:00-18:30 – VANDENHOVE

Workshop: The Idea of Brutalism in Postwar Architecture
27 April 2023, 11:00-13:00 – Kleine Vergaderzaal, Rommelaere

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