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【Lecture 27.05.2024】 Architecture and Poststructuralism
Release time：2024-05-23
K. Michael Hays
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Hays has played a central role in the development of the field of architectural theory and his work is internationally known. His research and scholarship have focused on the areas of European modernism and critical theory as well as on theoretical issues in contemporary architectural practice. He has published on the work of modern architects such as Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Mies van der Rohe, as well as on contemporary figures such as Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, and the late John Hejduk. Hays was the founder of the scholarly journal Assemblage, which was a leading forum of discussion of architectural theory in North America and Europe.
Lectures and Seminars:
Architecture and Poststructuralism
Venue:
Bell Hall, Building B, CAUP (Lectures，18:00-19:00)
Room C1, Building C, CAUP (Seminars，19:20-21:00)
01 | Structure, Sign, and Play
Time:
May 28, Tuesday
Host:
Prof. LI Xiangning
02 | Realism and Formalism
Time:
May 31, Friday
03 | From Sign to Symptom
Time:
June 04, Tuesday
04 | Inscriptions
Time:
June 07, Friday
Special Event
Theme:
From Book Collection to Academic History: Seminar Report Based on the Collections of Stanford Anderson and Henry Millon
Time:
18:00-20:00, May 27, Monday
Venue：
Room C1, Building C, CAUP
Host：
Assoc. Prof. WANG Kai
Guests:
Prof. K. Michael Hays
and Prof. LI Xiangning
Abstract:
The concept of poststructuralism was influential on Western and Chinese architectural production, including but not limited to the debates on postmodernism beginning in the 1970s, and Chinese “experimental architecture” in the 1990s. This colloquium—through historical readings and collaborative discussions of selected examples of architectural practice— will trace the inauguration and developments of poststructuralist thought in architecture, in Euro-American and in Chinese architecture theory and practice.
We will begin by expanding out from the inaugural texts of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan, and their internalization by architecture theory. We will follow the development of poststructuralist thought through an examination of selected architectural projects and theoretical texts, which we will study in detail.
The embrace of poststructuralist theory eventually precipitated the end of historicist postmodernism, though it is arguable that certain vestiges of poststructuralism and its critique of Western Reason continue to frame recent architectural production, even if not made explicit by architects. In the second part of this colloquium, we will investigate the possible lineages of poststructuralism in contemporary architectural practice.
Ph.D. Seminar
Ph.D. Seminar
Time:
15:00-17:00, May 29, Wednesday
Venue：
Room C1, Building C, CAUP
Host：
Dr. WANG Ying
WANG Xuerui
The Term Architectural Art in Chinese Architectural Theory (1920s-1950s): A Semantic Transplantation
SUN Bochao
A Renewed Understanding of Michelangelo's Design Concepts in the 1960s: A Primary Study on Henry A. Millon's Academic Style and Research Methods
LIU Ziyue
Contradition and Constrains in Kazuyo Sejima's Practice
