Forum for Architecture Theory

During the 11th session we have been working on the famous chapter “Architecture ou Revolution” by Le Corbusier through the lenses of Simone Brott and hers „Architecture et #Révolution: Le Corbusier and the #Fascist Revolution.“ The session was co-curated in collaboration with Ilkay Tanrisever founder of Tanrisever Architektur. Many thanks to POOL Architekten and Marcel Jaeggi for hosting F.A.T. at the LOOP Aktions- und Ausstellungsraum!

The 10th session was co-curated by RominaGrillo and LiviuVasiu (CoFounders of unulaunu). The proposed texts offered three different points of view about the fundamental question “What is good architecture” and establish a metatextual approach to the semester topic. „Richard’s Alternative" by Steve Parnell „Intentions, inventions” by Kersten Geers “Notes on good architecture" by Lucien Kroll #Published on OASE 90 in 2013 by NAiPublishers

During the 9th session we worked on the essay "Extracraft: the Power of Infrastructure Space” by Keller Easterling, published by Verso Books in 2014. The text explores how infrastructure revolutionized the way we think and produce space not through the design of forms but through the definition of active forms or scripts and their repetition. The text inquires the limit between what we define as "Architecture" as opposed to "infrastructure space" and shifts the focus towards the latter in order to understand its hidden dynamics and its spatial and social consequences. The text has been proposed by Giulia Scotto (PhD candidate Urban Studies, University of Basel). Thanks to all participants for making the 9th session a success!

During the 8th Session we worked on "Modern Architecture and the Eclipse of History", the first chapter of Manfredo Tafuri's “Theories and History of Architecture” published by Granada publishing limited in 1980. The session took place in the foyer spaces of Zürich #iconic building “Lochergut”. But there is onemorething: in the 8th session we launched FATTV, a brand new TV channel, live streaming our sessions over the web! #getout and #getFAT.

The 7.th session was the first session of the new discussion series! According to its etymology, the term „revolution“ keeps an intriguing ambiguity. It can be understood as radical change of the status quo or as a 360° journey, bringing a movement back to its 0 position. The prefix „Re-„ covers indeed both the notion of „Against“ and the one of „Again“. Depending on the width of the historical frame „Revolution“ shows the vitalistic coexistence of dynamic and violence or the reiteration of the preexisting embedded in the idea of a circular movement. The new semester topic is an attempt to generate a contrast and maybe a continuity to the previous one “on Permanence” Our focus will be to explore this polarity in the history of architecture and possibly to formulate an hypothesis on the next coming revolution.

The #semester has already ended and we had the #amazing #chance to #celebrate the last F.A.T. #session in the former #atelier of #HansJosephson! #PeterMärkli joined the #debate on a very dense #text by #PhilipUrsprung proposed by @tiborblcky. Many #thanks to all the #participants and #contributors! #FAT #ForumForArchitectureTheory #getfat #getoutandgetfat (at Zürich, Switzerland)

It was a #greathonor to #present and #run the #5th #FAT #session at #ETH - #manythanks to the #AAA #association of #assistants at the #department #architecture #DARCH for the #invitation (at ETH Hönggerberg)

#during the #4thsession we #discussed the #topic of #bigdata #through the #lens of #mariocarpo’s #thestyleofbigdata #FAT #forumforarchitecturetheory (at Tanzhaus Zürich)

FAT - forum for architecture theory the 3rd session was discussing the article the “new world” by hannes meyer and it was proposed by architects carla ferrer llorca and Marco jacomella

FAT - Forum for Architecture Theory -  the 2nd session took place @ the baugenossenschaft kalkbreite and was focusing on the topic of proportion with essays by christopherpowell and rudolfwittkower.

FAT - Forum for Architecture Theory. The first session was focusing on Ananda Coomaraswamy and his essay “Traditional Art and Symbolism. Photo by Frida Grahn