Architecture and Philosophy：

A Conversation between Patrik 

Schumacher and Petar Bojanic

Patrik Schumacher

Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects

Lecture Title：Mataverse is Happening

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. He studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London and received his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Science in Klagenfurt. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the AA in London where he continues to teach. Since 2007 he is promoting Parametricism as epochal style for the 21st Century. In 2010/12 he published “The Autopoiesis of Architecture” in two Volumes and recently guest-edited AD - Parametricism 2.0, emphasizing the societal relevance of Parametricism. His latest book, ‘Tectonism – Architecture for the 21st Century’, was released in 2023. His current research and design interest is focused on the metaverse and the integration of real and virtual communication spaces.

Petar Bojanic

Professor of Philosophy；

Institute for Philosophy and Social 

Theory,University of Belgrade；

TIAS Fellow, Tsinghua University

Lecture Title：Concept, Project and Conject

Petar Bojanić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and the President of the Regional Network of Centers for Advanced Studies in Southeast Europe (RECAS) under the Southeast European and Western Balkans Rectors’ Forum. The main areas of Bojanić’s research are political philosophy, including the theory of institutions and collective action, violence and the ethics of war, Jewish political tradition, and the philosophy of architecture. He is currently a fellow at the TIAS Institute and is working on the project Victory in Global Governance.