This event brings togetherÌý²õ±ð±¹±ð°ù²¹±ôÌýcontributors to the recently published bookÌýIteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and ArchitectureÌýwho will each present their research, followed by a moderatedÌýpanelÌýdiscussion. Speakers willÌýconsiderÌýthe ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the finalÌýartefact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration.ÌýKey questions surround the roles of writing, the use of media, and relationships between object, image, and reproduction.ÌýArchitecture andÌýobjectsÌýwill be interrogatedÌýas unique yet mutable works by examining their antecedents, successive exemplars, and their afterlivesÌý–Ìýand thus their role as organizers or repositories of meaning.ÌýHow canÌýaÌýcloser look at iteration revealÌýnew perspectives into the production of objects andÌýthe production of thought alike?Ìý
Organised by Dr Robin Schuldenfrei (91Ó°ÊÓ)
Professor Zeynep Celik AlexanderÌýis Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She specializes in the history of architecture in the modern period. Çelik Alexander is the author ofÌýKinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern DesignÌý(Chicago and London: UniversityÌýof Chicago Press, 2017) and co-editor, with John May, ofÌýDesign Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural PracticeÌý(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). She is a member of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, an editor of the journalÌýGrey Room, and a co-director of Columbia’sÌýCenterÌýfor Comparative Media. She is currently at work on new book on Victorian databases.Ìý
Professor Peter ChristensenÌýis Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. His specialization is modern architectural and environmental history, particularly of Germany, Central Europe and the Middle East. His theoretical interests center on issues of geopolitics and multiculturalism. He is the author of the book, Germany and the Ottoman Railway Network: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), winner of the 2020 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture by a North American scholar. He is also the author of the forthcoming book Materialized: German Steel in Global Ecology,Ìýfrom Penn State Press. Peter received his PhD from Harvard University. Peter has served asÌýWissenschaftlicherÌýMitarbeiter at theÌýTechnischeÌýUniversität München (2012-2014) and Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (2005-2008). Peter holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, a Master of Design Studies in the History and Theory of Architecture, with distinction, and a Master of Arts, both from Harvard. Peter is the recipient of the Philip Johnson Book Award (2010) from the Society of Architectural Historians and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, the ForumÌýTransregionaleÌýStudienÌýin Berlin, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Historians of Islamic Art Association, among others.ÌýÌý
Professor Kathleen James-ChakrabortyÌýis Professor of Art History at University College Dublin.Ìý She has published extensively on the history of modern GermanÌýarchitecture, andÌýis currently working with Bryan Clark Green on a book on the Belgian Friendship Building on the campus of Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia.Ìý James-Chakraborty’s books includeÌýArchitecture since 1400Ìý(Minnesota, 2014) andÌýModernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of GermanyÌý(2018) as well as the edited collectionsÌýBauhaus Culture from Weimar to the Cold WarÌý(Minnesota, 2006) andÌýIndia in Art in IrelandÌý(Routledge, 2016).Ìý
Professor Peter SealyÌýis an architectural historian who studies the ways in which architects constructively engage with reality through indexical media such asÌýphotography.ÌýHe holds architecture degrees from the McGill University School of Architecture and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a Frank Knox fellow. He recently completed his PhD at Harvard on the emergence of a photographic visual regime in nineteenth-century architectural publications, seen through the lens of truth — in both architecture and its representations.Ìý
Peter’s research on Émile Zola and the immateriality of 19th century iron buildings was recently published inÌýFunction and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth CenturyÌý(Routledge), a volume he co-edited with PaulÌýDobraszczyk. His articles have appeared inÌýAbitare, Border Crossings, Canadian Architect, Domus, Harvard Design Magazine, The Journal of Architecture,ÌýandÌýOris, and in several edited volumes, including Blackwell’sÌýCompanion to the History of Architecture. Recently, he studied the resurgence of model photography and photomontage in contemporary architectural representation as a Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Current research projects include a study of the Berlin Wall in film, and of classicism’s persistent recurrence as the architecture of enslavement.Ìý
Dr.ÌýRobinÌýSchuldenfrei is the Katja and Nicolai Tangen Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism at 91Ó°ÊÓ. She has written widely on modernism as it intersects with theories of the object, architecture and interiors. Her publications includeÌýLuxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933Ìý(Princeton University Press, 2018) as well as numerous articles, essays, and the edited volumes:ÌýIteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and ArchitectureÌý(2020),ÌýAtomic Dwelling: Anxiety, Domesticity, andÌýPostwarÌýArchitectureÌý(2012) and, co-edited with Jeffrey Saletnik,ÌýBauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and ModernismÌý(2009).Ìý
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