El programa de Doctorado en Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos invita a asistir al Seminario «Following the Detective» por Thomas Weaver este jueves 27 de noviembre en la Casa de Doctorado, Campus Lo Contador actividad que será seguida por el PechaKucha 2025.
This lecture explores the genre of detective fiction and speculates on both the history and possible advantages of appropriating this genre for other forms of writing, including the one subject so far immune to its charms, namely architecture. Along the way it will examine ideas pioneered by the first detective authors (Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle) and through their celebrated fictional detectives (Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes). The lecture will go on to chart critics, historians, philosophers and even analysts who have secretly or not so secretly been influenced by these works, and will end with an account of the making of a new series of architectural books whose structure, tenor, tone and form has been shamelessly plagiarised from pulp detective fiction.
Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, teacher, critic and editor. Since the late 1990s he has combined editorial positions – notably at ANYmagazine in New York, editing AA Files at the Architectural Association in London, at the MIT Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture, and currently as a commissioning editor for Park Books – with academic appointments, at the Cooper Union, the AA School, as a Visiting Fellow at the Berlage, TU Delft, a Senior Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s GSD, a Guest Professorship at EPFL Lausanne, a Visiting Professorship at Princeton University, and currently as a Guest Professor at the Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio. He has lectured and taught extensively; has acted as an external examiner and studio critic in many schools of architecture worldwide, and is the founder and series editor (with Françoise Fromonot) of the Gumshoe series of architectural mysteries. He is also the author of Writing Not Typing (2019), Against Research/Model-maker Grimm (2018), From Soane to The Strip (2018, with Denise Scott Brown), AA Files Conversations (2013), and GOD & CO: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble (2011, with Alessandra Ponte and Laurent Stalder),in addition to numerous essays and published conversations.
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