Lisa Landrum
Toronto Metropolitan University, Architectural Science, Department Member
- University of Manitoba, Architecture, Department Memberadd
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- Chair of the Dept of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University, Dr. Lisa Landrum is a widely published... moreChair of the Dept of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University, Dr. Lisa Landrum is a widely published scholar, award-winning teacher, and a licensed architect in the US and Canada. With substantial experience from NYC, Lisa also holds a PhD, and M.Arch-2, in Architectural History & Theory, McGill University (Montreal), Professional B.Arch, Carleton University (Ottawa). Prior to joining TMU, Lisa was Associate Dean Research (2017-2023) and Chair of the PhD program in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, teaching Architecture Design Studios, Architectural History & Theory lecture courses and seminars since 2008. Lisa was Coordinator for the Architectural Masters Thesis there for 7 years, and continues advising graduate and doctoral students. Lisa served as Associate Head of the Department of Architecture from 2016 to 2019. During this time she led the 2017 Architecture Program Report and related collaborative preparations for the successful 2018 CACB Accreditation visit; and re-launched ArchFolio , the Department of Architecture's annual publication of representative student work. While at the University of Manitoba, Lisa helped to successfully re-launch the Faculty of Architecture's PhD program in Planning and Design, while simultaneously developing, coordinating, and growing the Faculty's new multi-disciplinary Co-op program.
Lisa's research is wide ranging, but focuses on the dramatic and ethical dimensions of architectural agency and representation, from the beginnings of the discipline through to the present day, and with equal concern and enthusiasm for the discipline's future.
Lisa has been an active member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), and the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture (ISPA), and serves as the lead academic advisor on a nationwide committee for the Future of Architecture in Canada, currently developing an inaugural Architectural Policy for Canada. In 2019/2020 Lisa launched and led the CAFE project (architecturecanada.ca), specifically to bring schools of architecture, and especially the students, into the conversation on shaping the future of architecture in Canada. With support from professional and academic bodies, and a federal grant, the outcomes of this CAFE project are continuing to inform and advance the discipline, at a time when questions about architecture's public and ecological agency have never been more urgent.
In 2017 Lisa earned the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award from the Faculty of Graduate Studies. In 2018, and again in 2022, Lisa earned a Students’ Teacher Recognition Award for outstanding teaching. In 2019, Lisa was inducted into the RAIC College of Fellows, in recognition of her exceptional scholarship and her leadership.
Lisa is also currently serving a 2 year term as President of CACB, the Canadian Architectural Certification Board, working to advance the discipline’s relevance, vitality, openness, and potential.
As an architect, educator, and researcher – concerned with both the history and future of architecture – Lisa is dedicated to strengthening bonds between academia and practice, while leveraging architecture’s potential for justice and joy.
An updated TMU profile will be provided when available. In the meantime, learn about TMU DAS here https://www.torontomu.ca/architectural-science/about/
More on Lisa here: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/facstaff/faclist/landruml.html
More on the CAFE project here https://architecturecanada.ca/
More on CACB https://cacb.ca/about-us/
More on RISE for Architecture https://roac.ca/history/edit
The Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉs) are part of an ongoing outreach project launched, by Lisa Landrum, in 2019 to discuss and debate the role of architectural education and research in shaping Canada’s future. The SSHRC... more
The Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉs) are part of an ongoing outreach project launched, by Lisa Landrum, in 2019 to discuss and debate the role of architectural education and research in shaping Canada’s future. The SSHRC funded initiative involves all 12 accredited Canadian schools of architecture and their extended communities.
Knowledge and ideas mobilized through these CAFE forums are informing the development of an inaugural architecture policy for Canada. The forums are enabling students, educators and academic researchers to play meaningful roles in shaping a policy framework, its priorities, ambition and depth of vision.
Between October 2019 and March 2020 five in-person forums were hosted at five universities across Canada. A Sixth CAFE, called "Toward Equity in Architecture" (also funded in part by SSHRC Connection grant) was held in 2022.
Key outcomes of the initial series of 5 CAFE forums, an online survey, and student manifestos, were published in this Summary Report, on Sept. 18, 2020.
Knowledge and ideas mobilized through these CAFE forums are informing the development of an inaugural architecture policy for Canada. The forums are enabling students, educators and academic researchers to play meaningful roles in shaping a policy framework, its priorities, ambition and depth of vision.
Between October 2019 and March 2020 five in-person forums were hosted at five universities across Canada. A Sixth CAFE, called "Toward Equity in Architecture" (also funded in part by SSHRC Connection grant) was held in 2022.
Key outcomes of the initial series of 5 CAFE forums, an online survey, and student manifestos, were published in this Summary Report, on Sept. 18, 2020.
Research Interests: Architecture, Participatory Research, Environmental Planning and Design, Architectural Education, Architecture and politics, and 15 moreEnvironmental Design, Architectural Theory, Environmental Sustainability, Ethical Architectural practices, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, Architectural Design, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Professional practice in Architecture, School-Based Consultation, Public Consultations and Social Dialogue, Canadian Architecture, Architectural Pedagogy, Architecture and public space, Architecture In Canada, and Public Policy
Theatres of Architectural Imagination explores connections between architecture and theatre, encouraging many varieties of imagination (including ethical, narrative, social, historical, poetic and creative imagination) in the design,... more
Theatres of Architectural Imagination explores connections between architecture and theatre, encouraging many varieties of imagination (including ethical, narrative, social, historical, poetic and creative imagination) in the design, interpretation and teaching of architecture, cities, landscapes and public places, and in the role of theatre, performing arts, and civic festivals and engagement, in shaping the architecture and meaning of the world. In its breadth of scope and detailed depth of inspiring examples, it will delight and provoke thinkers, makers, doers and teachers in theatrical and performing arts, as well as in many interrelated environmental disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. As such, it aspires to expand the already wide open field of architectural agency, while also attempting to ground that field in ethical and dramatic modes of action and interpretation.
Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention, and compassion. No simple power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied, social, and situational. Its performative potential and holistic scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship between theatre and architecture with essays, interviews, and entr’actes arranged in three sections: Bodies, Settings, and (Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples and contexts, from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern Europe, North America, India, Iran, and Japan. Topics include the central role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political drama, protest, and phenomenal play; and world- making through language, gesture, and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings; eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari, the book performs as a Janus- like memory theatre, recalling and projecting the architect’s perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful world.
Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention, and compassion. No simple power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied, social, and situational. Its performative potential and holistic scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship between theatre and architecture with essays, interviews, and entr’actes arranged in three sections: Bodies, Settings, and (Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples and contexts, from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern Europe, North America, India, Iran, and Japan. Topics include the central role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political drama, protest, and phenomenal play; and world- making through language, gesture, and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings; eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari, the book performs as a Janus- like memory theatre, recalling and projecting the architect’s perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful world.
Research Interests: Art History, Performing Arts, Architecture, Art Theory, Architectural Education, and 15 moreArchitectural History, Theatre Architecture, Architectural Theory, Imagination, Ritual Theory, Theatre, Mime, History of architecture, Architectural Design, Festival, Phenomenology of the Imagination, Architectural Drawing, Active Imagination, Literature and Architecture, and Architecture and Public Spaces
Introduction to 'Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life' (Intellect Books, 2020), co-edited by Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu, and Lisa Landrum. The introduction... more
Introduction to 'Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life' (Intellect Books, 2020), co-edited by Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu, and Lisa Landrum.
The introduction provides framework for contributions by 18 authors from diverse fields intersecting architecture, urbanism, film and media studies, and digital art. The book is part of a series called 'Mediated Cities', by series editor Graham Cairns.
Contributing authors: Louis D'Arcy-Reed, Shana Sanusi, Tania Ahmadi, Susannah Gent, Loukia Tsafoulia, Severino Alfonso, Katarina Andjelkovic, Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, Gül Kacmaz Erk, Jean Boyd, Gracia Ramírez, Michael Schofield, Wang Changsong, Kimberly Connerton, and Giorgos Papakonstantinou. (Introduced by Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu, and Lisa Landrum; with an afterword by series editor Graham Cairns.)
The introduction provides framework for contributions by 18 authors from diverse fields intersecting architecture, urbanism, film and media studies, and digital art. The book is part of a series called 'Mediated Cities', by series editor Graham Cairns.
Contributing authors: Louis D'Arcy-Reed, Shana Sanusi, Tania Ahmadi, Susannah Gent, Loukia Tsafoulia, Severino Alfonso, Katarina Andjelkovic, Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, Gül Kacmaz Erk, Jean Boyd, Gracia Ramírez, Michael Schofield, Wang Changsong, Kimberly Connerton, and Giorgos Papakonstantinou. (Introduced by Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu, and Lisa Landrum; with an afterword by series editor Graham Cairns.)
Research Interests: Media Studies, Architecture, Film Theory, Digital Media, Cinematic Space, and 12 moreArchitectural History, Urban Studies, Media, Architectural Theory, Cinema, Narrative Theory, Representation Theory, Film and Media Studies, Film Criticism, Utopia/dystopia, Architecture and Cinematic Space, and City Symphony Films
Download "Thinking Architecture" here > https://mar.mcgill.ca/issue/view/8 "Thinking Architecture" is a special issue of Montreal Architectural Review (volume 6) - guest edited by Lisa Landrum. My brief introduction is attached.... more
Download "Thinking Architecture" here > https://mar.mcgill.ca/issue/view/8
"Thinking Architecture" is a special issue of Montreal Architectural Review (volume 6) - guest edited by Lisa Landrum.
My brief introduction is attached. Download the full issue of this open access journal, via the link provided. Thanks to all the contributors, including Eliezer Perez, Rebecca Williamson, Marcia F. Feuerstein, Matthew Mindrup, Tordis Berstrand and Jonathan Foote, and all those who submitted.
Table of Contents
Lisa Landrum "Introduction: Thinking Architecture"
Rebecca Williamson "Thinking Through Building"
Marcia F. Feuerstein "In the sky with diamonds’ of Ronchamp’s East Wall: Constellations of Thought"
Matthew Mindrup "Thinking and Imagining Architecture at a Distance with Models"
Tordis Berstrand "Paper Architecture as a Site for Thinking, Writing and Spatial Agency"
Book Review by Jonathan Foote of Paul Emmons' 'Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices' (Routledge, 2019)
Excerpt of Intro:
"In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry exposes a fallacy: that in emergency situations thinking must cease for quick action to prevail. She returns to this false opposition of thinking and acting in the closing chapter of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. While the thrust of Scarry's argument is that weapons of mass destruction are incompatible with democracy, her underlying premise-that thinking does not oppose action but orients action-is also significant for the democratic art of architecture. Deliberative thinking enables action in the best direction. This capacity for deliberation, which Aristotle called 'bouleusis' and aligned with 'phronēsis' (prudence or practical wisdom), is essential for good decision-making, where the goal is not simply to act, but to act well in the midst of particular situations replete with complexities and uncertainties. Scarry's call for thinking resonates with Hannah Arendt's insights on action and judgment, as presented in The Human Condition, The Life of the Mind, and a recent set of essays based on Arendt's "Thinking Journal" (Denktagebuch)..."
"Thinking Architecture" is a special issue of Montreal Architectural Review (volume 6) - guest edited by Lisa Landrum.
My brief introduction is attached. Download the full issue of this open access journal, via the link provided. Thanks to all the contributors, including Eliezer Perez, Rebecca Williamson, Marcia F. Feuerstein, Matthew Mindrup, Tordis Berstrand and Jonathan Foote, and all those who submitted.
Table of Contents
Lisa Landrum "Introduction: Thinking Architecture"
Rebecca Williamson "Thinking Through Building"
Marcia F. Feuerstein "In the sky with diamonds’ of Ronchamp’s East Wall: Constellations of Thought"
Matthew Mindrup "Thinking and Imagining Architecture at a Distance with Models"
Tordis Berstrand "Paper Architecture as a Site for Thinking, Writing and Spatial Agency"
Book Review by Jonathan Foote of Paul Emmons' 'Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices' (Routledge, 2019)
Excerpt of Intro:
"In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry exposes a fallacy: that in emergency situations thinking must cease for quick action to prevail. She returns to this false opposition of thinking and acting in the closing chapter of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. While the thrust of Scarry's argument is that weapons of mass destruction are incompatible with democracy, her underlying premise-that thinking does not oppose action but orients action-is also significant for the democratic art of architecture. Deliberative thinking enables action in the best direction. This capacity for deliberation, which Aristotle called 'bouleusis' and aligned with 'phronēsis' (prudence or practical wisdom), is essential for good decision-making, where the goal is not simply to act, but to act well in the midst of particular situations replete with complexities and uncertainties. Scarry's call for thinking resonates with Hannah Arendt's insights on action and judgment, as presented in The Human Condition, The Life of the Mind, and a recent set of essays based on Arendt's "Thinking Journal" (Denktagebuch)..."
Research Interests: Architecture, Architectural Theory, Theory Of Architecture, Philosophy of Architecture, History of architecture, and 15 morePaper Architecture, Architectural Scale Models, Critical Theory and Architecture, History and theory of architecture, Le Corbusier, Architectural history and theory, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Architectural Theory and Criticism, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Embodied knowledge, Architectural Drawing, Architectural Philosophy, Ronchamp Chapel, and Marc-Antoine Laugier
Reflections on the critical role of distance in the disciplines of architecture, architectural history, and architectural education, with examples drawn from Alberti, and placed in present context of the surge in remote - and improvised -... more
Reflections on the critical role of distance in the disciplines of architecture, architectural history, and architectural education, with examples drawn from Alberti, and placed in present context of the surge in remote - and improvised - teaching sparked by the pandemic; and the corresponding expansion, and inclusive opening-up of the discourse to voices formerly off-stage. The paper was presented at an international conference that - like so many during the pandemic - was held online.
ISBN: 9781848225312
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ISBN: 9781848225312
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This chapter attests to the antiquity of architecture’s practical and poetic involvement with justice by describing three ancient Greek plays in which ‘architects’ figure into the dramatization of just acts. The plays to be discussed... more
This chapter attests to the antiquity of architecture’s practical and poetic involvement with justice by describing three ancient Greek plays in which ‘architects’ figure into the dramatization of just acts. The plays to be discussed include: Aeschylus’ fragmentary Dikē Play, Aristophanes’ comedy Peace, and Euripides’ satyr play Cyclops.
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This detailed account of the architecture of Edgar Allan Poe includes analysis of two lesser-known stories, fascinating context on Poe's critical writing on architecture, and implications for architectural agency and imagination. The... more
This detailed account of the architecture of Edgar Allan Poe includes analysis of two lesser-known stories, fascinating context on Poe's critical writing on architecture, and implications for architectural agency and imagination.
The aged, often dark and dreary, settings of Edgar Allan Poe have long been appreciated for creating a consistent narrative atmosphere, establishing, as Poe put it in Island of the Fay, “one vast animate and sentient whole.” Poe’s sentient settings are also typically remote and labyrinthine, enacting a gradual estrangement from reality and retreat into dream. This chapter considers a related phenomenon of Poe’s narrative environments: their dense profusion of eclectic objects, the ensemble effect and strange agency of which urge readers and researchers to reconsider their own imaginative involvement with multivalent settings of inhabitation and study. How can historians and researchers investigate and understand the influence of decorative objects in architectural spaces, through these descriptions?
Like the museum interiors of Sir John Soane or the imaginary vistas of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, several of Poe’s narratively concise but evocatively expansive settings are palimpsestically packed with curios: exotic, antique, and fantastic elements drawn from different times and places. As for Soane and Piranesi, such artifacts for Poe were less emblems of loss than means of invention—stimuli to memory and imagination, revealing how the entirety of past and distant worlds might act upon and within fragmentary presents. This chapter interprets the agency of such settings in two tales of Poe, The Assignation (1834) and Ligeia (1838). In each of these stories an architect-like protagonist intentionally configures a “medley architectural embellishments” to powerfully revive capacities of memory and wonder. Reading these descriptive tales in relation to selections of Poe’s other fiction and cultural criticism (including his architectural criticism), reveals the potency of imaginative description in establishing an efficacious scene, while also giving reason to fear unlimited powers of imagination.
The aged, often dark and dreary, settings of Edgar Allan Poe have long been appreciated for creating a consistent narrative atmosphere, establishing, as Poe put it in Island of the Fay, “one vast animate and sentient whole.” Poe’s sentient settings are also typically remote and labyrinthine, enacting a gradual estrangement from reality and retreat into dream. This chapter considers a related phenomenon of Poe’s narrative environments: their dense profusion of eclectic objects, the ensemble effect and strange agency of which urge readers and researchers to reconsider their own imaginative involvement with multivalent settings of inhabitation and study. How can historians and researchers investigate and understand the influence of decorative objects in architectural spaces, through these descriptions?
Like the museum interiors of Sir John Soane or the imaginary vistas of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, several of Poe’s narratively concise but evocatively expansive settings are palimpsestically packed with curios: exotic, antique, and fantastic elements drawn from different times and places. As for Soane and Piranesi, such artifacts for Poe were less emblems of loss than means of invention—stimuli to memory and imagination, revealing how the entirety of past and distant worlds might act upon and within fragmentary presents. This chapter interprets the agency of such settings in two tales of Poe, The Assignation (1834) and Ligeia (1838). In each of these stories an architect-like protagonist intentionally configures a “medley architectural embellishments” to powerfully revive capacities of memory and wonder. Reading these descriptive tales in relation to selections of Poe’s other fiction and cultural criticism (including his architectural criticism), reveals the potency of imaginative description in establishing an efficacious scene, while also giving reason to fear unlimited powers of imagination.
Research Interests: Architecture, Literature, Narrative, Environmental Studies, Architectural History, and 15 moreInterior Design (Architecture), Architectural Theory, Imagination, Theory Of Architecture, Orientalism in art, Philosophy of Architecture, History of architecture, Edgar Allan Poe, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, History of Art and Architecture, Narrative Architecture, Understanding Architectural Space, Sir John Soane, Literature and Architecture, and 19C American Literature
"In 1957, Canadian media theorist and University of Toronto English professor Marshall McLuhan predicted mass media would radically transform learning environments, having already 'cracked the very walls of the classroom.' In a related... more
"In 1957, Canadian media theorist and University of Toronto English professor Marshall McLuhan predicted mass media would radically transform learning environments, having already 'cracked the very walls of the classroom.' In a related 1967 article on the future of education, McLuhan foresaw 'free-roving students' interacting within media-rich settings, reveling in the realization that “our place of learning is the world itself, the entire planet we live on.' However prescient of twenty-first-century global connectivity, McLuhan’s prediction of 'classrooms without walls' did not come to fruition. At their best, university settings are productive laboratories of peace and democracy, providing dignified and inspiring places to freely exercise the individual and collective capabilities of imagination, experimentation, interpretation, and dissent. More concretely, campuses are living paradigms for cities, exemplifying our best urban ecologies by planning for dense cultural diversity; by integrating mixed-use development with thriving natural landscapes; by responsibly adapting buildings that have accrued over time; by implementing sustainable technologies; and by creating transit-accessible and pedestrian-friendly environments conducive to lingering, meandering, and face-to-face contact. Because of all this, universities are, as Michael Sorkin asserts, 'the closest we come to quotidian utopia.' This chapter centers on four exemplary campus designs of the 1960s that have remained influential touchstones throughout the decades to follow: Ron Thom’s Massey College (1960–1963) and Trent University (1963–1969); John Andrew’s Scarborough College (1963–1965); and Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey’s Simon Fraser University (1963–1965). These projects catapulted Canadian campus architecture onto the international stage."
This chapter on 50 years of campus architecture in Canada appears in the book 'Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present' (edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey) jointly published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect magazine.
This paper is uploaded for educational purposes only.
This chapter on 50 years of campus architecture in Canada appears in the book 'Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present' (edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey) jointly published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect magazine.
This paper is uploaded for educational purposes only.
Research Interests: Education, Architecture, Architectural History, History of Universities, Architectural Theory, and 15 moreModern Architecture, Online Learning, Place-based Learning Theory, Landscape Urbanism, Marshall McLuhan, Campus design (Architecture), Campus Planning and Design, Organic Architecture, Canada, University, Student Housing, Public Education, Brutalism, Architecture and Public Spaces, and Public Policy
The paper explores Tati's use of new film media in 'Playtime' in ways that reveal more fundamental modes of social, mimetic and situational mediation as performed in the film by architects, and architect-like characters, and by the... more
The paper explores Tati's use of new film media in 'Playtime' in ways that reveal more fundamental modes of social, mimetic and situational mediation as performed in the film by architects, and architect-like characters, and by the architectural settings which Jacques Tati devised.
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Architecture, Film Studies, Film Theory, Social Spaces and Interfaces, and 125 moreScreen Comedy, Comedy, The Everyday (Architecture), Film Music And Sound, Visual Culture, Transparency (Architecture), Philosophy of Film, Modern Europe, Silent Film, Architectural History, Urban Studies, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Techno-Utopia, Social Media, Urbanism, Cosmopolitan Urbanism, Modernity, Humor/Satire, Architectural Theory, Modern Architecture, Modernism, Social Production of Space, Sociology of Everyday Life, Pedestrian Walkability (Architecture and public spaces), Semiotic Social Space, Dystopian Fiction, Architecture and Phenomenology, Marshall McLuhan, Design Critical Thinking, Cinema and Architecture, Film and Architecture, Mimetic Theory, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Costume Design, Philosophy of Humour, History of Architectural Representation, Play Theory, Philosophy of Play, Theory of ornament, Film and Media Studies, Modernity and Critique, Hypermedia, Mime, Pantomime, History of architecture, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, Hollywood, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Serendipity, Architecture and social space, Romantic Comedy, Satire, Anti-Americanism, Urban Design, Satire, Irony, Parody, Placemaking, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Architectural Phenomenology, Social Exclusion in Virtual Spaces, Color symbolism, Film Architecture, Architectural Representation, Social movements and virtual spaces, Acting on the existent (Architecture), Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Tourism, Culture Studies, Domesticity, Interior design, Military Architecture, and Modern Movement and Local Traditions, Post War History of Europe, Smart City, Political Satire, Pedestrian Movement, New media, Social Network Sites and Youth Practices, Youth Online sociability and Identity, Media and Digital Literacies, Participation and Civic Engagement, and Tensions between Public and Private, Social Architecture, Jacques Tati, Social Theory, Urban and Cultural Studies, and the Interactions Between Urban Space, Politics, Memory, and Subjectivity, Relation between architecture and film, Commercial Architecture, Art Theory and Criticism, Narrative Architecture, Space, place and culture; geography of lifeworlds; Soundscape Studies, Spatial Choreographies, Creativity & Serendipity/Synchronicity, Architecture as symbolism in fiction, Technological Utopianism, Cultural Planning, Destiny, Sense of Place, Spirit of Place, Genius Loci, Cultural Mapping, Placemaking, Local Distinctiveness, Place Identity, Cultural Tourism, Literary Tourism, Gestalt, Culture-Led Regeneration, Social and Psychological Aspects of Architecture, Space and Society, Ethnicity and Space, Urban Segregation, Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man, Sound in Urban Space, Art & Architecture, Architecture and Tourism, Acting Theory, Governing the Large Metropolis, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Architectural Glass, Serendipity and sagacity, Place Branding and Destination Marketing Case: Marketing of Paris, Glass Architecture, Gender, Space and Feminist Geography, Social Space, Architectural Symbolism, Globalization of Capitalism and Production of Urban Space, Interactive architecture makes metaphors, Humanities in Architecture, Technology in Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Society of the Spectacle, Set Design in Film, Coincidence, Serendipity, and Synchronicity, French american relations, Public space for multicultural urbanism, Color In Film, Space, Feminism, Semiotics, The Cultural Politics of Architecture and Urban Design, Social and Psychological Dimensions of Architecture, Architecture is a Metaphor, Urban Life and City Space As They Intersect With New Technologies, The Interaction Between the Visual Arts, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Architecture, Metropolitan Cultures, Autonomy Politics Architecture Capitalism, Commercial Space, Set and Costume Design., Modernism and Posmodernism in Post World War Two North America, Modernism and Postmodernism In Architecture, Paris Modernity and Conflict 1937, Critique of Techno-utopianism, and Modernist Ornament
An essay connecting the imagined muse of architectural drawing and dreaming with Polymnia, the muse of pantomime. The essay provides context for a pantomime play, demonstrating the patient search for eudaimonia, through the act of... more
An essay connecting the imagined muse of architectural drawing and dreaming with Polymnia, the muse of pantomime. The essay provides context for a pantomime play, demonstrating the patient search for eudaimonia, through the act of architectural invention. This play was devised in honour of Marco Frascari, an advocate for mime as a mode of architectural interpretation and agency. It was performed as the culminating event of the 2nd Frascari Symposium on March 29, 2014. The text of the (originally silent) pantomime play is a retrospective poem, accompanied by a retrospective drawing synthesizing the event, and a series of staged photographs reenacting the play's choreography, costumes and props. The performance and text were created in collaboration with my partner, Ted Landrum.
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Research Interests: Theatre History, Architecture, Mimesis, Performance Studies, Drama In Education, and 63 morePerformance Art, Architectural History, Theatre Architecture, Drawings (Architecture), Architectural Theory, Theory Of Architecture, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Architecture and Phenomenology, Corporeal Mime, Philosophy of Architecture, Theatre Theory, Theatre, Jacques Lecoq, History of Architectural Representation, Architecture in Literature, Interactive Architecture, Phenomenology and Architecture, Mime, Pantomime, History of architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Architecture and Philosophy, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Architectural Phenomenology, History and theory of architecture, Architectural history and theory, History of Modern and Contemporay Architecture, Visual arts, Theater, History of Modern and Contemporary architecture; Visual Arts; History, Poetry, Literature, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Body and Architecture, History of Art and Architecture, Muses, Narrative Architecture, Eudaimonia, Theatre Arts, Architectural Theory and Criticism, Archicture and Philosophy, Architecture and Literature, Architectural Representation Theory, Art & Architecture, Literature, philosophy, architecture., Architectural Drawing, Phenomenology of Architecture, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Ancient theater architecture, Architectural Theory and Design, Literature and Architecture, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Architectural Pedagogy, Philosophy and Architecture, Theater Architecture, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez-Questions of Perception_ Phenomenology of Architecture-William Stout (2007), Eudaimonic Well-Being, Architecture is a Metaphor, Drawing as a research tool, Story of Architecture, Marco Frascari, Poetry and Architecture, and Theory and History of Architectural Drawing
Lisa Landrum's paper "Architectural Renewal and Poetic Persistence: Investing in an Economy of Stories" appears as Chapter 10.
Research Interests: Architecture, Architectural Education, Architectural History, Philosophy of History, Metaphor, and 42 moreVitruvius, Architectural Theory, Modern Architecture, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Theory Of Architecture, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Philosophy of Architecture, Homeric poetry, Architecture in Literature, History of architecture, Architecture historiography, Architecture and Philosophy, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Ancient Greek Architecture, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Oikos, The historiography of architectural history, Odysseus, Aristippus, Homeric Reception, Philosophy, Antropology, Architecture, Architectural practice, Art, Philosophy, Architecture, Architectural Theory and Design, Literature and Architecture, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Architecture & Engineering Economy, Architectural Pedagogy, Architecture and Public Spaces, Architectural Historiography, Philosophy and Architecture, Historiography of Architecture, Oikonomia, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Literary Architecture, History and Philosophy of Architecture, and Critique of deconstruction
Lisa Landrum's paper "Modus Operandi of an Architectus Doli: Architectural Cunning in the Comic Plays of Plautus" appears as Chapter 15. Also in the book are essays by Karsten Harries, Marco Frascari, David Leatherbarrow, Kenneth... more
Lisa Landrum's paper "Modus Operandi of an Architectus Doli: Architectural Cunning in the Comic Plays of Plautus" appears as Chapter 15. Also in the book are essays by Karsten Harries, Marco Frascari, David Leatherbarrow, Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, Steven Holl, and other colleages and former students of Alberto Perez-Gomez including: Ricardo L. Castro, Tracey Eve Winton, Robert Kirkbride, Paul Emmons, Indra Kagis McEwen, Santiago de Orduña, Caroline Dionne, Lily Chi, Louise Pelletier, Lawrence Bird, Lian Chikako Chang, Natalija Subotincic, Stephen Parcell, Graham Livesey, Juan Manuel Heredia, Anne Bordeleau, Peter Olshavsky, and David Theodore.
Paper summary/excerpts: "At least five of Plautus’ twenty extant comedies involve what classicists call an architectus doli, an “architect of trickery.” … Plautus’ elaboration of the cunning slave character has long been considered one of his most original contributions to Latin drama; but the “architect” terms associated with these slaves (and with Jupiter) were likely transposed from the now largely lost Greek comedies that Plautus adapted and translated into Latin. These five imported “architects” were generally ignored in early studies of Plautine inventiveness. They eventually gained attention, however, in an important 1952 study on The Nature of Roman Comedy. Since then, Plautus’ architectus figure has been interpreted in a variety of ways within classical scholarship: as a euphemism for the play’s lowly agent of intrigue; as a proxy for the scheming playwright; and as a media-reflexive figure associated with other craft imagery used throughout Plautus’ plays to qualify and vivify not only acts of scheming and plot construction, but also moral edification. Yet, there are further interpretations to be made and important questions to be asked…This essay cannot answer these questions in full, but it will initiate an interpretation of Plautus’ architectus doli with such questions in mind. By lifting this Roman dramatist up out of the footnotes of architectural scholarship (where he is sometimes merely credited with providing the earliest extant use of the Latin term architectus), the following study prepares the grounds for discovering how the cunning agents and agencies of Plautus’ comedies meaningfully illuminate the modus operandi of architects..."
Paper summary/excerpts: "At least five of Plautus’ twenty extant comedies involve what classicists call an architectus doli, an “architect of trickery.” … Plautus’ elaboration of the cunning slave character has long been considered one of his most original contributions to Latin drama; but the “architect” terms associated with these slaves (and with Jupiter) were likely transposed from the now largely lost Greek comedies that Plautus adapted and translated into Latin. These five imported “architects” were generally ignored in early studies of Plautine inventiveness. They eventually gained attention, however, in an important 1952 study on The Nature of Roman Comedy. Since then, Plautus’ architectus figure has been interpreted in a variety of ways within classical scholarship: as a euphemism for the play’s lowly agent of intrigue; as a proxy for the scheming playwright; and as a media-reflexive figure associated with other craft imagery used throughout Plautus’ plays to qualify and vivify not only acts of scheming and plot construction, but also moral edification. Yet, there are further interpretations to be made and important questions to be asked…This essay cannot answer these questions in full, but it will initiate an interpretation of Plautus’ architectus doli with such questions in mind. By lifting this Roman dramatist up out of the footnotes of architectural scholarship (where he is sometimes merely credited with providing the earliest extant use of the Latin term architectus), the following study prepares the grounds for discovering how the cunning agents and agencies of Plautus’ comedies meaningfully illuminate the modus operandi of architects..."
Research Interests: Roman History, Art History, Architecture, Comedy, Mimesis, and 105 morePerformance Studies, Design Research Method (Architecture), History (Architecture), Performance Art, Drama, Architectural Education, Architectural History, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), Roman Comedy, Theatre Architecture, Architectural Theory, Modern Architecture, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Metatheatre, Theory Of Architecture, History of Environmental design and Science in Architecture, Green architecture, Design Theory (Architecture), Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture and Phenomenology, Architectural Heritage, Architecture history (Architecture), Classical Drama, Corporeal Mime, Philosophy of Architecture, Mimetic Theory, - Architecture history, Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre, History of Architectural Representation, Phenomenology and Architecture, Anthropology of Architecture, History and Theory (Architecture), Architecture History, Mime, Pantomime, Architectural Representations, History of architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Plautus, Architectural Design, Architecture and Philosophy, Trickster, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Architectural Phenomenology, Critical Theory and Architecture, Architectural Representation, The discipline of architetcure, architecture and society, Architecture Theory, History and theory of architecture, Acting on the existent (Architecture), Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Tourism, Culture Studies, Domesticity, Interior design, Military Architecture, and Modern Movement and Local Traditions, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Architectural history and theory, Famous Architects and Their Works, Roman Architecture, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Architectural Research, Architecture Philosophy, History of Art and Architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Restoration and Heritage Conservation, Architectural Drawings Theory, Narrative Architecture, Drama, architecture, imagery, Architectural Theory and Criticism, Architecture and Comics, History and Theory of Architecture, Urbanism, Architectural Education, Architectural Representation Theory, Women Architects, Literature, philosophy, architecture., Architectre Theory, Phenomenology of Architecture, Philosophy, Antropology, Architecture, Architectural practice, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Art, Philosophy, Architecture, Architects, Phenomenology Architecture, Theory and History of Architecture, Architectural Theory and Design, theory and Analysis of architecture, Literature and Architecture, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Anthropological Philosophy of Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History of Architecture, Humanities in Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Roman Theatre Architecture, Philosophy and Architecture, Epistemology of Architectural Representation, History of Architecture, Cunning Intelligence, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Phenomenology in Architecture, Architects and Architectural Practice, Mythos mimesis catharsis, Theories of Corporeality and the Imagination, Underdogs, Theatre Architectrure, Architectural Anthropology, Play in architecture, History and Philosophy of Architecture, and Hermeneutics and Architecture
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Ancient History, Philosophy of Agency, Aristophanes, Art History, and 42 moreArt History, Theatre Studies, Humanities, Theatre History, Architecture, Art Theory, Mimesis, Performance Studies, Critical Regionalism (Architecture), Performance Art, Devised Theatre, History of Democracy, Architectural History, Agency Theory, Architecture and politics, Metaphor, Vitruvius, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Body in Performance, Architecture and Phenomenology, Classical Drama, Euripides, Representation Theory, Architecture in Literature, Leon Battista Alberti, Agency, Architecture and Philosophy, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Parades and Processions, Humanities and Social Sciences, Soundscapes Aural Architecture Urban Acoustic Environments Sensory Geography Public Art and Policy Concepts of Place Sense of place + place experience Place-making, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Theory of Mimesis, Architecture and Public Spaces, Mythos mimesis catharsis, Aristophanes Peace, and Architecture of Peace
"This essay explores the worktables of architects, especially architecture students, as crucial sites of dramatic knowledge construction. More than an instrumental platform for drawing operations, the space and occasion of worktables... more
"This essay explores the worktables of architects, especially architecture students, as crucial sites of dramatic knowledge construction. More than an instrumental platform for drawing operations, the space and occasion of worktables provide an immersive, allusive, and speculative environment for rehearsing architectural performances, negotiating divergent desires, and conjuring meaningful worlds. As this essay argues through a demonstrative matrix of examples, the architect’s worktable serves as a miniature theatre: a physically intimate place, which – when inhabited imaginatively – suggestively opens up as an expansive social space of dramatic transformation, mediation, and revelation. Moreover, the table surface and setting perform as in-situ archives, preserving – through traces of interaction and circumstantial evidence – a partial record of the very design practices they support."
Research Interests: Architecture, Design education, Mimesis, Physical Theatre, Modernist Furniture Design, and 15 moreArchitectural Theory, Studio Practice, Theory Of Architecture, Palimpsests, History of Architectural Representation, Tableaux Vivants, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Tableau, Architectural Representation Theory, Architectural Drawing, Francis Ponge, Saul Steinberg, Architectural Pedagogy, Theater In Architectural Pedagogy, and Marco Frascari
This paper, addressing "The Education and Emergence of Architects in Canada" offers an alternative view of professional growth. In short, I aim to soften the presumed hierarchy of the student–intern–architect trajectory. Instead of... more
This paper, addressing "The Education and Emergence of Architects in Canada" offers an alternative view of professional growth. In short, I aim to soften the presumed hierarchy of the student–intern–architect trajectory. Instead of emphasizing differences between these roles, I highlight fundamental attributes uniting all three: the essential A-B-C’s of any present or future architect – being an Amateur, a Beginner, and a Citizen. Let me explain...
Research Interests: Architecture, Learning and Teaching, Architectural Education, Architectural History, Edmund Husserl, and 15 moreRoland Barthes, Sociology of Professions, Architectural Theory, Theory Of Architecture, Philosophy of Architecture, Architectural history and theory, Internship, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Art & Architecture, Architectural practice, Amateurs, Architects, Architectural Theory and Design, architectural Ethics, and Louis Kahn
An homage to long serving studio tables, originally built for the architecture design studios in the faculty of architecture, at the University of Manitoba, this essay reflects on the primary site of making and decisive imagination which... more
An homage to long serving studio tables, originally built for the architecture design studios in the faculty of architecture, at the University of Manitoba, this essay reflects on the primary site of making and decisive imagination which for centuries has supported architectural agency.
Research Interests: Architecture, Experiential Learning (Active Learning), Architectural Theory, Tableaux Vivants, Design Studio, and 15 moreReflective practice, experiential learning, Architecture Communication and New Media, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architecture Design Studio pedagogical methods, Hands-on Learning, Offering tables, Drafting, Architectural Drawing, Design Studio Pedagogy, Tabula Rasa, Architectural Studio Design, The Design Studio Classroom, Architecture and Choreography as Interdisciplinary Practice, Tables, and Poetry and Architecture
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.... more
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. Student editors for Warehouse 25 were, Alena Rieger and Ally Pereira-Edwards.
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Art History, Humanities, Art, Architecture, and 149 moreArt Theory, Design History, Creativity, Design Creativity, Heuristics, Design Research Method (Architecture), Moral Imagination, Poetry, Design Theory, Philosophy of Art, Creative Cities, Creative Research Methods, Design Process (Architecture), Architectural History, Gaston Bachelard, Oulipo, Postmodernism, Architecture Design, Sculpture, History of Art, Philosophy of Design, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Aesthetics and Ethics, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Imagination, Architecture As Agency, Theory Of Architecture, Green architecture, Design Theory (Architecture), Artistic Research, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Avant-Garde, Creative thinking, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture and Phenomenology, Design Theory and Philosophy, Critical Thinking and Creativity, Philosophy of Architecture, Creative City, Situationist International, Marcel Duchamp, History and Theory (Architecture), Georges Perec, Art and Philosophy, John Cage, History of architecture, Ethical Architectural practices, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Virtual Reality, Pablo Picasso, Serendipity, Bauhaus, Architectural Design, Architecture and Philosophy, Placemaking, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Green Architecture and Environmental Design, Salvador Dali, Architectural Innovation, Imagination and Creativity in Design Thinking, Sociological Imagination, Critical Theory and Architecture, Architecture Theory, History and theory of architecture, Tectonic architecture, Hal Foster, John Hejduk, Architectural history and theory, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Philosophy of Imagination, History of Modern and Contemporary architecture; Visual Arts; History, Poetry, Literature, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Architectural Design Pedagogy, The Historical Imagination, Architectural Research, History of Art and Architecture, Architecture Design Studio pedagogical methods, Humanities and Social Sciences, Narrative Architecture, Alternative Reality Gaming, Peter Eisenman, Radical Architecture, Teaching Architecture, Daniel Libeskind, Phenomenology of the Imagination, Professional practice in Architecture, Tectonics Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism, Engineering and Architecture related researchs, Rem Koolhaas, Architecture and Narrative, Architectural Representation Theory, Arts and Humanities, Art & Architecture, Architecture Creativity and Innovation, Radical Pedagogy, Active Imagination, Frank Gehry, Pedagogy in Architecture, Architectural practice, Philosophy of Art and Design, Alfred Jarry, Ecophenomenology in an Architecture Design Pedagogy:, Material Imagination, Zaha Hadid, Unheimlich, Architectural Theory and Design, Creative Imagination, Fostering Creativity in Architectural Design Education, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Architectural Pedagogy, Poetics of Architecture, Forensic Architecture, Anthropological Philosophy of Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Mark Wigley, Philosophy and Architecture, The Role of the Imagination in Architectural Perception, Sociology of Imagination, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Cornell, Radical and Utopian Architecture, Starchitecture, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Teaching Methods in Architectural Design, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez-Questions of Perception_ Phenomenology of Architecture-William Stout (2007), Material Architecture, Spatial Imagination, Architecture and Choreography as Interdisciplinary Practice, Innovative Architecture, Ethics and Social Justice In Architecture, Theories of Imagination, Philosophy of Art and Design Education, Philosophy of Mind: Imagination, Architecture Research, Creativity In Architecture, Women In Architecture, Modernism and Postmodernism In Architecture, Edgar Allen Poe, Architecture and Agency, Architecture and Writing, Play in architecture, Architectural Design Innovations, Dream Architecture, and Architectural drawing's theory and history
"This paper argues for a pre-theoretical and pro-theatrical understanding of theory. To begin, it considers the Greek tradition of theōria as practiced around the fifth century BCE in the period just before Plato appropriated the cultural... more
"This paper argues for a pre-theoretical and pro-theatrical understanding of theory. To begin, it considers the Greek tradition of theōria as practiced around the fifth century BCE in the period just before Plato appropriated the cultural practice of theōria as a model for philosophical inquiry. As will be shown, this proto-philosophical practice of theōria was profoundly theatrical, which is to say, spectacular and dramatic in social, situational, and symbolic ways. Such events of theōria involved diverse citizens participating as active witnesses in recurring festivals that had both intimate and far-reaching political, religious, and aesthetic significance. Reflecting on some present-day settings and occasions for practicing theory, this paper concludes with a disciplinary provocation: the re-engagement of theōria’s fundamental theatricality can reanimate the social, situational, and symbolic dimensions of architectural theory, without sacrificing either its relative independence or its capacity for heuristic wonder.
Before theory was a thing, it was a practice. In ancient Greece theōria was a spatiotemporal practice thoroughly intertwined with socio-political experiences and endeavors. The cultural practice of theōria involved traveling to a foreign place, primarily for the sake of witnessing a spectacular festival and/or consulting an oracle, then returning home to share with others an account of events seen and understandings gained. All three stages of theōria – traveling, spectating, and returning with a report – were vitally important. Individuals would temporarily leave behind the familiarity of their local conditions, assumptions, and problems to immerse themselves in intensely social, synesthetic, and metaphysical encounters at a Panhellenic festival. They would then return home with the obligatory challenge of communicating the truth of what was witnessed to those who stayed behind...." — Lisa Landrum
Before theory was a thing, it was a practice. In ancient Greece theōria was a spatiotemporal practice thoroughly intertwined with socio-political experiences and endeavors. The cultural practice of theōria involved traveling to a foreign place, primarily for the sake of witnessing a spectacular festival and/or consulting an oracle, then returning home to share with others an account of events seen and understandings gained. All three stages of theōria – traveling, spectating, and returning with a report – were vitally important. Individuals would temporarily leave behind the familiarity of their local conditions, assumptions, and problems to immerse themselves in intensely social, synesthetic, and metaphysical encounters at a Panhellenic festival. They would then return home with the obligatory challenge of communicating the truth of what was witnessed to those who stayed behind...." — Lisa Landrum
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Classics, Aristophanes, Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, and 88 moreHistory of Ideas, Theatre History, Architecture, Plato, Spatial Practices, Mimesis, Performance Studies, Heterotopia, Cultural Theory, Critical Thinking, Performance Art, Architectural History, Pre-Socratic (Pre-Platonic) Philosophy, Architecture and politics, Contested Spaces (Anthropology of space), Philosophy of Theatre, Theatre Architecture, Architectural Theory, Travel theory, Architecture As Agency, Theory Of Architecture, Classical philology, Design thinking, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Creative thinking, Architecture and Phenomenology, Ancient Greek History, Philosophy of Architecture, Theatre and Philosophy, Theatre Theory, Mimetic Theory, Ancient Greek Philosophy, - Architecture history, Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Peripatetics, Jacques Lecoq, History of Architectural Representation, Phenomenology and Architecture, Origins of the State, History of architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, The sociology of ancient spectacle, Theatricality, Metatheatre and theatricality, Architecture and Philosophy, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Architectural Phenomenology, Classical Greek Philosophy, Polis, History and theory of architecture, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Architectural Design Pedagogy, History of Art and Architecture, Narrative Architecture, Travelling, Greek etymology, Phenomenology of Architecture, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Deconstructivism Architect, Meanings of Architecture, Staging the Archive/Performing History, Ancient theater architecture, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Architectural Pedagogy, Architecture and Public Spaces, Philosophy and Architecture, History of Architecture, History and Theory of the Theatre, Theater Architecture, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez-Questions of Perception_ Phenomenology of Architecture-William Stout (2007), Critical Spatial Practices, Architecture, Politics, Postcriticism, The Cultural Politics of Architecture and Urban Design, Theatrum Mundi, Theoria, History of the Theater, Theatre Architectrure, Greek Theoria -- Roman Contemplation -- Modern Minfulness, Powers of Ten, Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation, Bryony Roberts, and We Know How to Order
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"This essay initiates a new approach to the architectural interpretation of chōra by considering the pre-philosophical meanings of chōra, as an inhabited “region” or “land,” and by drawing attention to certain situationally transformative... more
"This essay initiates a new approach to the architectural interpretation of chōra by considering the pre-philosophical meanings of chōra, as an inhabited “region” or “land,” and by drawing attention to certain situationally transformative scenes from Athenian drama in which chōra appears in the script. Through this approach, I intend to reveal the relatively ordinary meanings of chōra from the time just before Plato recast it, in Timaeus, as a highly enigmatic entity fundamental to cosmological formation and human making. Unfortunately, Jacques Derrida, whose philosophy of deconstruction influenced architectural theory in the 1980’s and 90’s, generally ignored and even dismissed the “ordinary” meanings and contexts of chōra, in favor of its more abstract “paradoxes and aporias.” This essay counters that tendency with a hermeneutic approach. By taking a fresh look at primary sources, I aim to recover an understanding of the common yet complex world in which chōra originally came into being as a philosophically and architecturally suggestive concept. I believe this approach can help us to recognize not only where Plato’s notion of chōra was coming from, but also how chōra may remain relevant for present-day architects striving, amid politically and ecologically vexed circumstances, to engage and engender meaningful change."
Research Interests: Performing Arts, Architecture, Performance Studies, Place and Identity, Critical Regionalism (Architecture), and 31 moreSpace and Place, Performance Art, Architectural History, Performance, Jacques Derrida, Vitruvius, Theatre Architecture, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Theory Of Architecture, Philosophy of Architecture, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Leon Battista Alberti, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Architecture and Philosophy, History and theory of architecture, Ancient Greek Tragedy and its Reception, Architectural history and theory, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Plato Vs Drama, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Oedipus, Drama, architecture, imagery, Timeaus, Epistemology of space, semiotics of space, ontology of architecture, Dionysos in the theater, Architectural Theory and Design, Architecture and Public Spaces, Philosophy and Architecture, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, and Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez-Questions of Perception_ Phenomenology of Architecture-William Stout (2007)
"This study gathers and interprets the earliest extant references to architects in ancient Greek philosophy, as found in select works of Plato and Aristotle. Throughout this review, Plato and Aristotle [are] shown to consistently present... more
"This study gathers and interprets the earliest extant references to architects in ancient Greek philosophy, as found in select works of Plato and Aristotle. Throughout this review, Plato and Aristotle [are] shown to consistently present architectonic agents as exemplary civic and intellectual leaders, acting in awareness of their own (and others’) limits, with knowledge of the most appropriate archē, and with a view to the most comprehensive aims—the common good. This discloses an alternative and more accurate etymology of architects: not as master-builders but as leaders and makers of beginnings (archai). The aim of this essay has been not only to rediscover the discursive beginnings for a renewed philosophy of architecture, but to suggest how these philosophical 'archai' might help present-day architects reimagine the full relevance of their still contested role."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Political Philosophy, Aristophanes, Educational Leadership, and 114 moreArchitecture, Political Theory, Plato, Aristotle, Philosophy of Education, Leadership, Design Research Method (Architecture), Praxis, Change Leadership, Cultural Theory, Utopian Studies, Hermeneutics, Architectural Education, Bakhtin, Architectural History, Pre-Socratic (Pre-Platonic) Philosophy, Transformational Leadership, Cicero, Vitruvius, History of Art, Poetics as Praxis, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Theory Of Architecture, Classical Architecture, Archetypes, Architectonic Logic, Architectonic reasoning, Design thinking, Design Theory (Architecture), Role of Culture in Architecture, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture and Phenomenology, Design Theory and Philosophy, Philosophy of Architecture, Writing in the Disciplines, Teleology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Euripides, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Multidisciplinary, Herodotus, History and Theory (Architecture), Post-disciplinary Practice, Neo-platonic theory (Architecture), Leon Battista Alberti, Leadership Theory, History of architecture, Ethical Architectural practices, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, Peacebuilding, Plato and Aristotle, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Architectural Languages, Architecture and Philosophy, Philosophical Hermeneutics, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Interdisciplinary, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Architectural Phenomenology, Civic Virtue, Philosophy of Praxis, Education of an architect, Athenian Agora, Enterprise Architecture teaching, Critical Theory and Architecture, The discipline of architetcure, architecture and society, Architecture Theory, History and theory of architecture, Architectural history and theory, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Leone Battista Alberti: Defining Humanist Architecture, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Architectural Research, Architectonics, Architecture Education, Eudaimonia, Professional practice in Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism, History and Theory of Architecture, Urbanism, Architectural Education, Architectural Representation Theory, Art and Social Transformation, Theory and Praxis, ORIGINS OF DRAMA; DRAMATIC THEORY & CRITICISM; AFRICAN LITERATURE, Eudaemonia, Pedagogy in Architecture, Architectural practice, Design thinking in Architecture Education, Meanings of Architecture, Architects, Architectural Theory and Design, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Humanities in Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Ethics in Architecture, Philosophy and Architecture, Vitruvius Renaissance, Truth, Goodness and Beauty, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, Architects and Architectural Practice, Meaning in architectural design, The origin and philosophy of Human Right, Aristotle/Phronesis/Praxis, Architecture and Choreography as Interdisciplinary Practice, Art Design Social Theory Architectural Humanities, Archeology, Utopian Theory, Originary Philosophy, Ethics and Social Justice In Architecture, Literary Architecture, Architecture Without Architects, and Architectural Agency
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Research Interests: Epistemology, Architecture, Participatory Research, Mimesis, Architectural Education, and 54 moreArchitectural History, Philosophy of History, Alternative Pedagogy, Vitruvius, Architectural Theory, Theory Of Architecture, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Mimetic Theory, - Architecture history, Historical Epistemology, Radical Educational Philosophy, Interactive Storytelling, Collaborative Learning, John Ruskin, Leon Battista Alberti, Empathy, History of architecture, Historia, Architecture historiography, Agency, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, The discipline of architetcure, architecture and society, History and theory of architecture, Architectural history and theory, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Peter Eisenman, Radical Education, Radical Pedagogy, Learning-By-Doing, Rem Koolhaas, The historiography of architectural history, Learning by doing, Architectural Representation Theory, Radical Pedagogy, Role of an Architect, Free masonry, Hermenuetics, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Educational turn, radical pedagogy, praxis, Innovation in teaching and learning, Alternative teaching in art and design, History Plays, Architectural Historiography, Historiography of Architecture, The Role of the Imagination in Architectural Perception, Starchitecture, Pritzker Prize, I - Thou Relationship of Martin Buber, Dialogical Teaching, Dialogical Interaction, Radical Performance Pedagogy, Ensemble Characters, Prosopopoeia, and Women In Architecture
Forty years after inaugurating their now eminently successful architectural practice, John and Patricia Patkau are “beginning again.” So they happily declare in their new book Material Operations. This unique survey features eleven... more
Forty years after inaugurating their now eminently successful architectural practice, John and Patricia Patkau are “beginning again.” So they happily declare in their new book Material Operations. This unique survey features eleven experimental works, from their 2010-11 Skating Shelters for Winnipeg’s frozen Red River, to the nearly complete Temple of Light overlooking BC’s Kootenay Bay. Each work is presented more as...
Research Interests: Future Studies, Architecture, Heuristics, Construction Technology, Design Research Method (Architecture), and 56 moreIterative Methods, Architectural Geometry, Design Process (Architecture), Advanced materials in architecture, Contemporary Design (Architecture), Sculpture, Architectural Theory, Theory Of Architecture, Design Theory (Architecture), Architectural Surface, Architectural Competitions, Craft, Wooden Architecture, Arts and Crafts, Canada, Contemporary Architecture, Architectural Design, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, The Construction of Earthworks, Architectural Research, Architecture Critics and Design, Architectonics, Fabrication, Working with Prototypes in Architectural Design Research, Nexus Between Mathematcs and Architecture, Richard Serra, Architectural Criticism, Art & Architecture, Architecture Creativity and Innovation, Architectural practice, Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, Spirituality & Architecture, Architectural Sculpture, Free Form Timber Surface Architecture, Architecture Competitions, Architectural Theory and Design, Fostering Creativity in Architectural Design Education, Heuristic Methods, Canadian Architecture, Architectural Aesthetics, Aesthetics in Architecture, Model Making and Creative Thinking in Architectural Design, Visual Perception through Geometrical Manipulation, Alternatives In Architecture, Material Architecture, Strenghth of Materials, Architectural Prototypes, Innovative Architecture, Nordic Architecture, Form Finding, Architectural Form, Form-Finding and Analysis of Structures, Creative Tectonics Architectural Design, Ruled Lines Removal, Architecture as craft, Constructive Realism, and Noam Gabo
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Research Interests: Architecture, Atmospheres (Architecture), Architectural History, Architectural Theory, Architecture and Phenomenology, and 15 morePhilosophy of Architecture, Anthropology of the built environment, History of architecture, Ethical Architectural practices, Music and Architecture, History and theory of architecture, History of Art and Architecture, Atmosphere/ambiances, Moods (Stimmung), Architecture and Music, Joseph Rykwert, Neuroscience and Architecture, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez-Questions of Perception_ Phenomenology of Architecture-William Stout (2007), Aesthetics in Architecture, and Relation Between Architecture and Music
"Ever have the urge to take a sledgehammer to a nasty patch of asphalt?" Read this review by Lisa Landrum of a recent playground refurbishment designed (for Strathcona School in Winnipeg) by Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, who teach... more
"Ever have the urge to take a sledgehammer to a nasty patch of asphalt?" Read this review by Lisa Landrum of a recent playground refurbishment designed (for Strathcona School in Winnipeg) by Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, who teach landscape architecture at the University of Manitoba.
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Canadian Studies, Architecture, Landscape Archaeology, Landscape Architecture, and 27 moreSurrealism, Critical design practice, Adaptive Reuse, Philosophy of Design, Landscape, Earthworm ecology, Learning environments, Interactive Learning Environments, Design Criticism, Defensible space, Recycling of Building Materials, Nature and Nurture, Childrens play in primary school playgrounds, Playspace design in schools and public spaces, Adventure Playgrounds, Praise of Folly, Play and Playgrounds, Permeable Pavements, Architectural Theory and Design, Follies, Architecture and Public Spaces, Folly, Design of school playgrounds, Natural Playgrounds, Folly In 16th C Art, Architecture is a Metaphor, and Philosophy of Art and Design Education
"Difficult Harmonies" is a review of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a major museum of national and international importance, designed by architect Antoine Predock (with Architecture 49, and Ralph Appelbaum). Photos by Tom Arban.
Research Interests: Architecture, Museum Studies, Human Rights, Museums and Exhibition Design, Philosophy of Architecture, and 18 moreMuseum Design (Architecture), Organic Architecture, Museums, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Architectural Criticism, Areopagos, Glass Architecture, Architecural Design, Institutional and organizational design related to political participation and civic engagement, Canadian Architecture, Museum design, Theory, Criticism and History of Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Antoine Predock, Architecture is a Metaphor, Ethics and Social Justice In Architecture, Architecture of Peace, and Architecture of Justice
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Architecture, Architectural Education, Architectural History, History of Universities, and 7 moreArchitectural Theory, Music and Architecture, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, the History and Theory of Liberal Arts Education, History and Theory of Liberal Arts Education, University History, and Architectural Historiography
Research Interests: Architecture, Architectural History, Adaptive Reuse, Architectural Conservation, Palimpsests, and 17 moreRenaissance Rome, 16th Century Italian Art, History of Architectural Representation, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Architectural Preservation & Restoration, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Architectural Drawings Theory, Architectural Representation Theory, building of St. Peter's Basilica, Architectural Working Drawings, Visual Imagery Mnemonics, Roma nel Cinquecento, Cinquecento, Marco Frascari, Tiberio Alfarano, and Carlo Maderno
"Avenue Action" is a review of an adaptive re-use mixed-use development in Winnipeg's historic downtown core, written by Lisa Landrum "Before Portage Avenue became famous for forming, together with Main Street, the coldest, windiest... more
"Avenue Action" is a review of an adaptive re-use mixed-use development in Winnipeg's historic downtown core,
written by Lisa Landrum
"Before Portage Avenue became famous for forming, together with Main Street, the coldest, windiest intersection in all of Canada, it was celebrated for hosting Winnipeg’s warmest receptions and most heated public events. Nearly every parade, procession and protest in the city’s history--including royal visits, the 1919 General Strike, and the 2011 return of the Jets--has trodden on or across Portage Avenue, originally a muddy trading trail extending west to Portage la Prairie and beyond.
The Avenue Building, recently redesigned by Winnipeg’s award-winning 5468796 Architecture, participates in the animated history and potential of the legendary street it fronts. With its array of reflective balconies projecting over Portage Avenue like box seats in an urban theatre, this revitalized building performs as both avid spectator and engaging actor upon the Prairie’s primary promenade.
Originally built in 1904..."
written by Lisa Landrum
"Before Portage Avenue became famous for forming, together with Main Street, the coldest, windiest intersection in all of Canada, it was celebrated for hosting Winnipeg’s warmest receptions and most heated public events. Nearly every parade, procession and protest in the city’s history--including royal visits, the 1919 General Strike, and the 2011 return of the Jets--has trodden on or across Portage Avenue, originally a muddy trading trail extending west to Portage la Prairie and beyond.
The Avenue Building, recently redesigned by Winnipeg’s award-winning 5468796 Architecture, participates in the animated history and potential of the legendary street it fronts. With its array of reflective balconies projecting over Portage Avenue like box seats in an urban theatre, this revitalized building performs as both avid spectator and engaging actor upon the Prairie’s primary promenade.
Originally built in 1904..."
Research Interests:
A public exhibition of "Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change" was held from Sept. 2 to Nov.1 , at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, featuring early women architecture graduates from the University of Manitoba, and archival work in... more
A public exhibition of "Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change" was held from Sept. 2 to Nov.1 , at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, featuring early women architecture graduates from the University of Manitoba, and archival work in progress by undergraduate architecture student researchers working in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Landrum, "Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change" was designed and created by Lisa Landrum, with support from Marieke Gruwel at WAF, and participation of prior graduate student researchers, including Alixa Lacerna and Raik Laird, from the Dept. of Architecture.
A subsequent was held in the Spring and Summer of 2023 at Elizabeth Dafoe Library, 3rd floor, in the "Thorkalson Gallery", and adjacent University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections. This larger, expanded and interactive exhibition (extended through Sept. 2023) featured archival documents, including a display of original student drawings from the school's first female graduate, and additional documents and interactive devices for continued advocacy toward equity in architecture by past and present students.. The exhibition was participatory, allowing people to peruse (copies of) archival material, including material gathered by Alina Bilonozhko, an undergraduate researcher collaborating on the project. Several current and recent students participated in the installation, which included a large "Jar" for "JAR opening" comments, questions and suggestions; and a wall of fame for visitors to document their visit. A deck of cards was available for visitors to play the game of change, and learn about the history of women overcoming gender bias in architecture and architectural education.
See links below to several articles, including UM Today story with images and context, and explore the interactive website (in progress) >>> https://unstackingthedeck.ca/
Thank you for your interest - original decks can be purchased directly from Lisa Landrum, or via the online store at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation - get yours now, while supplies last!
UPDATE! the website is now live, where the full contents of Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change is shown and described, the accompanying booklet of Crib Notes is available for Download(!), and the open histories and futures of this collaborate and interactive research project is shared. >> https://unstackingthedeck.ca/view-cards/
A subsequent was held in the Spring and Summer of 2023 at Elizabeth Dafoe Library, 3rd floor, in the "Thorkalson Gallery", and adjacent University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections. This larger, expanded and interactive exhibition (extended through Sept. 2023) featured archival documents, including a display of original student drawings from the school's first female graduate, and additional documents and interactive devices for continued advocacy toward equity in architecture by past and present students.. The exhibition was participatory, allowing people to peruse (copies of) archival material, including material gathered by Alina Bilonozhko, an undergraduate researcher collaborating on the project. Several current and recent students participated in the installation, which included a large "Jar" for "JAR opening" comments, questions and suggestions; and a wall of fame for visitors to document their visit. A deck of cards was available for visitors to play the game of change, and learn about the history of women overcoming gender bias in architecture and architectural education.
See links below to several articles, including UM Today story with images and context, and explore the interactive website (in progress) >>> https://unstackingthedeck.ca/
Thank you for your interest - original decks can be purchased directly from Lisa Landrum, or via the online store at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation - get yours now, while supplies last!
UPDATE! the website is now live, where the full contents of Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change is shown and described, the accompanying booklet of Crib Notes is available for Download(!), and the open histories and futures of this collaborate and interactive research project is shared. >> https://unstackingthedeck.ca/view-cards/
Research Interests: Teaching and Learning, Architecture, Canadian History, Gender Equality, Archives, and 15 moreArchitectural History, Feminism, Interactive Media, Women's Empowerment, Women and Culture, Exhibition Design, Experiential Learning, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Hands-on Learning, Architectural practice, Creative research, Canadian Architecture, Feminist Curatorial Practices, Women In Architecture, and Playing Cards
Research Interests:
Contribution to a group exhibition called "Species"
Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College
June 28 - Aug. 21, 2016
Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College
June 28 - Aug. 21, 2016
Research Interests: Classics, Performing Arts, Art, Architecture, Art Theory, and 31 moreParticipatory Research, Mimesis, Contemporary Art, Puppetry, Collaboration, Philosophy of Art, Drama, Costume and Identity, Wearable Technologies, PHRONESIS, Architectural Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Face-to-Face Communication, Architecture and Phenomenology, Theatre Theory, Intimacy, Public Space, Consilience, Masks, Cabinets of Curiosities, Assemblage, Synesthesia and Art, Cultural mediation, Social Body, Body Politic, Personal space, Discursive Space, Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity, Microcosmos, Body and Public Spaces, and Proximics
""Exhibited March 12 - May 7, 2012
in the Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba.""
in the Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba.""
Research Interests: Classics, Philosophy of Agency, Art History, Performing Arts, Art, and 47 moreArchitecture, Art Theory, Ethnography, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Environmental Studies, Ritual, History of Costume, Design Theory, Performance Art, Devised Theatre, Spectacle, Avant-Garde Theater, Theory of Metaphor and Rhetorics, Costume and Identity, Performance, Urbanism, Metaphor, Theory Of Architecture, Street Art, Body in Performance, Avant-Garde, Performance Theory, Corporeal Mime, Ritual and Performance (Egyptology), Sustainable Design, Creative City, Theatre Theory, Costume Design, Street Theatre, Revolutionary Theory, Bauhaus, Agency, Costumes, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Masked Performance, Iconography and Iconology, Parades and Processions, Magical Fetishism, Halloween, Theatre Arts, Nick Cave, Social Body, Tactical Urbanism, Critical Urban and Cultural Theory, Sociology of Space and Architecture, and Rituals and Architecture
The "THEATRES OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGINATION: FRASCARI 5 SYMPOSIUM" [May 27-29, 2021, Winnipeg / Montréal / Adelaide / Zoom] was Co-Chaired by Lisa Landrum, University of Manitoba and Sam Ridgway, University of Adelaide, and in... more
The "THEATRES OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGINATION: FRASCARI 5 SYMPOSIUM" [May 27-29, 2021, Winnipeg / Montréal / Adelaide / Zoom] was Co-Chaired by Lisa Landrum, University of Manitoba and Sam Ridgway, University of Adelaide, and in collaboration with Louise Pelletier, UQÀM (Université du Québec à Montréal), and Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University (Montréal). On the original Symposium, more here > https://www.marcofrascaridreamhouse.com/future-events
and here > https://umanitoba.ca/architecture/theatres-architectural-imagination
A selection of essays, interviews, manifestos and entre-acts on Theatres of Architectural Imagination" has been published by Routledge (2023) and is available to order now > https://www.routledge.com/Theatres-of-Architectural-Imagination/Landrum-Ridgway/p/book/9781032286112
Thank-you to all contributors and participants in the Symposium, the Book, and related Exhibitions and Spin-off events!
and here > https://umanitoba.ca/architecture/theatres-architectural-imagination
A selection of essays, interviews, manifestos and entre-acts on Theatres of Architectural Imagination" has been published by Routledge (2023) and is available to order now > https://www.routledge.com/Theatres-of-Architectural-Imagination/Landrum-Ridgway/p/book/9781032286112
Thank-you to all contributors and participants in the Symposium, the Book, and related Exhibitions and Spin-off events!
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Mnemonics, Applied Drama/Theatre, Architectural Education, Architectural History, and 15 moreTheatre Architecture, Architectural Theory, Memory Theatres, Architecture and Phenomenology, Phenomenology of Space and Place, History of Architectural Representation, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Sociological Imagination, Dramatic Arts, Architectural Theory and Design, Architecture and Public Spaces, The Role of the Imagination in Architectural Perception, Architecture and Choreography as Interdisciplinary Practice, Theatre and architecture, and Theory and History of Architectural Drawing
ATMOSPHERE 10 explores Fabrications. Fabrications implicate diverse artifacts and modes of making, together with the places, practices, contingencies and intentions that enable and contextualize making. In other words, this symposium will... more
ATMOSPHERE 10 explores Fabrications. Fabrications implicate diverse artifacts and modes of making, together with the places, practices, contingencies and intentions that enable and contextualize making. In other words, this symposium will examine not simply what, how and why we make, but sites and situations of making. The aim is to explore how cultural and environmental circumstances become meaningful catalysts of design, building, teaching and research. This theme encompasses manifold concerns beyond the digital: complexities of urban and social fabrics; intricacies of environmental skins; potentials of building sites and workshops; as well as the stories and arguments through which we craft shared understandings of our fabricated world.
Abstracts due Nov 1, Symposium Feb 1-3, 2018 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Keynote Speakers include: Brian MacKay-Lyons & Philip Beesley
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/atmosphere/2018/brian-mackay-lyons.html
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/atmosphere/2018/philip-beesley.html
Abstracts due Nov 1, Symposium Feb 1-3, 2018 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Keynote Speakers include: Brian MacKay-Lyons & Philip Beesley
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/atmosphere/2018/brian-mackay-lyons.html
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/atmosphere/2018/philip-beesley.html
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Indigenous Studies, Design, Architecture, Participatory Research, and 147 moreParticipatory Action Research, Space Syntax, Participatory Media, Participatory Design, Fabrication Fantasies (Architecture), Design Research Method (Architecture), Space and Place, Community Engagement & Participation, Duplicity and Deception Studies, Environmental Planning and Design, Active Learning, Surrealism, Design Theory, Anthropology of space, Sustainable Building Design, Sustainable Urbanism, Creative Research Methods, Storytelling, Cultural Landscapes, Sustainable Urban Environments, Architectural History, Tensegrity Structures, Indigenous Knowledge, Advanced materials in architecture, Deception / Lying (Deception Lying), Experiential Learning (Active Learning), Landscape Theory, Interior Design (Architecture), Theory and Philosophy (Interior Design ), Adaptive Reuse, Architectural Theory, Sustainable Building Materials, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Theory Of Architecture, Craft Knowledge, Design thinking, Allegorical, Narrative, and Rhetorical Architecture, Sustainable Architecture, Green Building Materials (Architecture), Collage, Sustainable Urban Environments (Architecture), Design-based research, Sustainable Design, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Studio (Architecture), Urban Design (Urban Studies), Craft Theory, Situationist International, Figurative language, Community-Based Participatory Research, History of architecture, Experiential Learning, Deception, Research Through Design, Urban Design, Architecture and Philosophy, Architectural Scale Models, Acting on the existent (Architecture), Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Tourism, Culture Studies, Domesticity, Interior design, Military Architecture, and Modern Movement and Local Traditions, 19th-century Arts and Hand-craftsmanship movement; William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Collage, Montage, & Assemblage, Connectivism, History of Modern and Contemporary architecture; Visual Arts; History, Poetry, Literature, Lying, Deception, Truthfulness, Marimekko: fabrics, fashion, architecture, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Participatory Decision Making, History of Art and Architecture, Adaptive reuse, Interior Architecture, Sustainability, Architecture and Human Settlement, Art and Architecture, City Theory, Architecture Design Studio pedagogical methods, Fabrication, Cognitive heuristics in design processes, Interior Architecture, Crafts & Technology, Narrative Architecture, Analogy in creative thinking, Relationship between craft, design and society, Understanding Architectural Space, Design for Dis-Assembly (Architecture), Architectural Assembly + Materials, Hands-on Learning, Planning Theory, Architecture/ Planning/ Ekistics / Social Sciences / Architecture Pedagogy, Artifice, Architecture and Narrative, Art & Architecture, William Morris and his influence, Open Innovation, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Participatory Design, Technology-based Paradigm Shift in Architectural Pedagogy, In-Build Constructions (New Architectural Designs in Historical Urban Fabrics), Architectural design quality, Soundscapes Aural Architecture Urban Acoustic Environments Sensory Geography Public Art and Policy Concepts of Place Sense of place + place experience Place-making, Epistemic artifacts, Laurie Baker - His Architecture - Its effects on the social fabric, Experiential hands-on learning, Authorship and Deception, Drawing, Modeling, Diagramming and the Process of Architectural Design, Material for Landscape Architecture, Participatory architecture, design and research, Collage City, Indigenous Architecture / Indigenous Knowledge, Design to fabrication, Society of Architectural Historians, Literature and Architecture, Heuristic Methods, Architectural Pedagogy, Poetics of Architecture, Humanities in Architecture, Architecture and Public Spaces, Future Building Adaptive Reuse, Architectural Interventions In the Historical Urban Fabrics, Adaptive Reused Historical Building for New Purposed, Indigenous Arts & Crafts, Environmental Storytelling, Critical Spatial Practices, Architecture, Politics, Creative reuse of architecture, Indigenous Architecture, Model Making and Creative Thinking in Architectural Design, Visual Perception through Geometrical Manipulation, Material Architecture, QUALITY IN ARCHITECTURE, Art Design Social Theory Architectural Humanities, Architectural Models of Ships and Aircraft, Craft Design Process, Pragmatics of Figurative Language, Sustainable Design and Architecture, Artifactuals, Architecture & Material Culture, Sculpture and Architecture, Critical Urban Planning Theory, Socially Responsible Design, Socially Engaged Craft, Environment and Architectural Antecedents of Quality of Life, Traditional Materials, Methods, Ways of Making (Architecture and Urbanism), Craftsmanship During Middle Ages, Creative Adaptive Reuse, Role of Critique In Architectural Studios and Architectural Projects, Landscape Theory and Representation, Fictive Art, Proximics, Personal Space In Architecture Design Studio, Society & Indigenous Architecture, Creative Tectonics Architectural Design, Deconstruction Creativity Architecture History Education, Lessons from Indigenous and Vernacular Architecture, Architecture as craft, and Architectural Design and Fabrication
Conference Chair, Lisa Landrum: "Each year the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture hosts an interdisciplinary symposium entitled Atmosphere. This symposium explores the less tangible aspects of design and experience: the... more
Conference Chair, Lisa Landrum: "Each year the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture hosts an interdisciplinary symposium entitled Atmosphere. This symposium explores the less tangible aspects of design and experience: the ephemeral, social, situational, emotional, elemental, phenomenal and epi-phenomenal conditions of our shared world."
The theme of Atmosphere 2014 is Action!
“Action” shifts attention from designed objects to design motives, agencies, conditions and effects. “Action” poses questions about performative and collaborative modes of making and inhabitation. “Action” prompts designers and researchers to reflect on their
modus operandi, and on the actions and interactions of the diverse materials, circumstances, policies and people they work with. “Action” invites consideration of the transformative agencies of situations and situated events.
We invite PAPER PROPOSALS for 20-minute presentations exploring one of the following six sub-themes: building acts, dwelling acts, representational acts, socio-political acts, environmental acts, and research in action. Proposals should be well grounded in historical, theoretical or creative research, and develop compelling arguments and insights that contribute to interdisciplinary knowledge""Submit Paper Proposals by October 15th 2013.
Who? Academics in the allied disciplines of Architecture, Landsape Architecture, Environmental Design, Interior Design and City Planning."
5 Keynote speakers to be announced. See website for futher details, including inspirational quotes, a suggestive bibliography, and updates.
""
The theme of Atmosphere 2014 is Action!
“Action” shifts attention from designed objects to design motives, agencies, conditions and effects. “Action” poses questions about performative and collaborative modes of making and inhabitation. “Action” prompts designers and researchers to reflect on their
modus operandi, and on the actions and interactions of the diverse materials, circumstances, policies and people they work with. “Action” invites consideration of the transformative agencies of situations and situated events.
We invite PAPER PROPOSALS for 20-minute presentations exploring one of the following six sub-themes: building acts, dwelling acts, representational acts, socio-political acts, environmental acts, and research in action. Proposals should be well grounded in historical, theoretical or creative research, and develop compelling arguments and insights that contribute to interdisciplinary knowledge""Submit Paper Proposals by October 15th 2013.
Who? Academics in the allied disciplines of Architecture, Landsape Architecture, Environmental Design, Interior Design and City Planning."
5 Keynote speakers to be announced. See website for futher details, including inspirational quotes, a suggestive bibliography, and updates.
""
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Agency, and 138 morePerception, Art History, Education, Humanities, Architecture, Anthropology of Dress, Globalization, Reflective Practice, Design, Ethics, and Responsibility, Ethnography, Environmental Psychology, Design Creativity, Performance Studies, Canadian History, Material Culture Studies, Participatory Design, Community Resilience, Space and Place, Political Ecology, Actor Network Theory, Landscape Architecture, Praxis, Community Development, Situated Cognition, Environmental Planning and Design, Active Learning, Urban Planning, Embodiment, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Psychogeography, Design Research, Devised Theatre, Interior Design, Performativity, Consumption, Domesticity, Rural Development, Gender Equality, Architectural History, Agency Theory, Design multi-disciplinary practice, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Built Environment, Exile, Subalternity, Subaltern Agency, Architecture and politics, Architectural Theory, Early Modern Material Culture, Architecture As Agency, Architecture And Photography, Theory Of Architecture, Processes Underpinning Creative Practice, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Women's Empowerment, Civil Rights (History), Urban And Regional Planning, Urban Tourism, Architecture and Phenomenology, Indigenous ecological knowledges and practices, Environmental Activism, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy of Architecture, Sustainable Design, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Praxeology, History of Architectural Representation, Situationist International, Proxemics, Material Culture, Phenomenology and Architecture, Art and Activism, Nostalgia, Multidisciplinary design practices, Ethical Architectural practices, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, Critical Mass, City planning, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Interiority, Representation, Civic Agency, Active Learning Environments, Actor-Network Theory, Urban Design, Agency, Architecture and Philosophy, Immersive Environments, Existentialism, Place Marketing, Disaster risk reduction, Acting on the existent (Architecture), Architecture, Built Environment, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Tourism, Culture Studies, Domesticity, Interior design, Military Architecture, and Modern Movement and Local Traditions, Enaction, Green Design, Participatory Decision Making, Disaster Culture, Identity Studies, Poverty Studies, Site Specificity, Consumption theory, Architecture for Humanity is a group of designer that work for the poor around the world. We are working on a School Project in Nepal, Hands-on Learning, Rem Koolhaas, Landscape Architecture as Practice & Social inclusion/exclusion, Canadian Archaeology, Place Making, The Modern Interior, Architecture and design history, Soundscapes Aural Architecture Urban Acoustic Environments Sensory Geography Public Art and Policy Concepts of Place Sense of place + place experience Place-making, Achitecture, School Design, Civil Society Organizations, Zaha Hadid, Community participation and engagement, Indigenous Architecture / Indigenous Knowledge, Architectural Theory and Design, Climate Politics, Architecture and Public Spaces, Philosophy and Architecture, Fashion, Cold War politics, Political Agency, Architecture and Choreography as Interdisciplinary Practice, Technology for Community Development, Public Life, Humanistic Geography and Literature, History and Epistemology of Geography, Urban Landscape and Planning, Urban Anthroplogy, Performance/live Art, Geographical Dislocation, Gender Studies In Design, Post war Design, Gender RIghts Advocacy, Critical Acts, Substative Representation, and Architecture and Agency
Session #8: What’s in a name? The title “architect” has been around for 2500 years, and “architecture” for 2000. Throughout this time, great care has been taken by architect-authors to define and delimit these Greek and Latin terms. In... more
Session #8: What’s in a name? The title “architect” has been around for 2500 years, and “architecture” for 2000. Throughout this time, great care has been taken by architect-authors to define and delimit these Greek and Latin terms. In recent years, however, “architect” and “architecture” have been put into question. In a 2010 “Backseat Interview,” Mark Jarzombek opined that “architecture [with its Euro-centric ideology] is out,” and that any word whatsoever would be just as good to name the discipline. Similarly, in a 2011 lecture called “Architecture After Discipline,” Mason White surmised that we ought to substitute the title with another that better speaks to architecture’s “expanded field.” With this, he echoed not only Rosalind Krauss but Anthony Vidler, who in a 2004 essay sketched a kind of architecture that is “not exactly architecture”.
Like Shakespeare’s Juliet vainly wishing that her loved one could “O, be some other name”, a growing number of architects seem to be longing for a terminological fix to their disciplinary crises and cross-disciplinary infatuations. This session asks: What is at stake in this anxiety over the architect’s name? What would be lost if the title were changed? What might be regained if its full social implications were recovered? And, what examples from the history of architectural discourse can best help us to (re)contextualize and (re)consider such questions?
This session seeks papers considering the meanings, etymologies and rhetorical effects of “architect” titles in any period or language. Especially welcome are studies of the original emergence of the title in the fifth century BCE. Also welcome, are studies from the Middle Ages, when the term “architect” passed through curious vicissitudes, as Nikolaus Pevsner suggested in an important 1942 essay. Papers may also address figures performing the role under other names, such as the Turkish “Mìmār,” or consider the metaphoric capacity of “architects” in any genre of literature.
"SAH Conference April 10-14, 2013. (call for papers closed)
Lisa hosted this paper session called "An Architect By Any Other Name? (Re)Contextualizing 'Architects' ”
Session chair: Lisa Landrum, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba; landruml@cc.umanitoba.ca.""
Like Shakespeare’s Juliet vainly wishing that her loved one could “O, be some other name”, a growing number of architects seem to be longing for a terminological fix to their disciplinary crises and cross-disciplinary infatuations. This session asks: What is at stake in this anxiety over the architect’s name? What would be lost if the title were changed? What might be regained if its full social implications were recovered? And, what examples from the history of architectural discourse can best help us to (re)contextualize and (re)consider such questions?
This session seeks papers considering the meanings, etymologies and rhetorical effects of “architect” titles in any period or language. Especially welcome are studies of the original emergence of the title in the fifth century BCE. Also welcome, are studies from the Middle Ages, when the term “architect” passed through curious vicissitudes, as Nikolaus Pevsner suggested in an important 1942 essay. Papers may also address figures performing the role under other names, such as the Turkish “Mìmār,” or consider the metaphoric capacity of “architects” in any genre of literature.
"SAH Conference April 10-14, 2013. (call for papers closed)
Lisa hosted this paper session called "An Architect By Any Other Name? (Re)Contextualizing 'Architects' ”
Session chair: Lisa Landrum, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba; landruml@cc.umanitoba.ca.""
Research Interests: Humanities, Architecture, Architectural Education, Architectural History, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), and 41 moreHistory of Professions, Architectural Theory, Modern Architecture, Comparative Philology, Theory Of Architecture, Classical philology, Architectural Heritage, Philosophy of Architecture, - Architecture history, Italian Renaissance Architectural History, History of architecture, Ethical Architectural practices, Multidisciplinary approach in architectural education and practices, Architectural Design, Architecture and Philosophy, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM, Metaphor in Architectural Design, Architectural Phenomenology, History and theory of architecture, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Architecture Theory and Philosophy, Mimar, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Architecture Philosophy, History of Art and Architecture, Sociology of the architecture profession, modern history of the architecture profession and architectural design practice in Turkey, corporate modernism in architecture., Architectural practice, Architects, Architectural Theory and Design, architectural Ethics, Architectural history, philosophy, theory, Architectural Philosophy, Architecture and Public Spaces, Philosophy and Architecture, History of Architecture, Theory and Philosophy in Architecture, The Relationships Between Architectural Theory, Cultural Practices, and Lived Experience, Architects and Architectural Practice, History of Non-Western Architecture, Development in Greek Architectural Practices, and Non Western Cultures
Call for Papers Montreal Architectural Review (Volume 6, 2019) Special Issue: “Thinking Architecture” Guest Editor: Dr. Lisa Landrum Closing Date: September 1st, 2019 (now closed) Thinking Architecture In Thinking in an... more
Call for Papers Montreal Architectural Review (Volume 6, 2019)
Special Issue: “Thinking Architecture”
Guest Editor: Dr. Lisa Landrum
Closing Date: September 1st, 2019 (now closed)
Thinking Architecture
In Thinking in an Emergency (2011), Elaine Scarry exposes a fallacy: that in emergency situations thinking must cease for quick action to prevail. She returns to this false opposition of thinking and acting in the closing chapter of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom (2016). While the thrust of her argument is that weapons of mass destruction are fundamentally incompatible with democracy, her underlying premise – that thinking does not oppose action but orients action – is significant for the democratic art of architecture. Deliberative thinking enables action in the right direction. This capacity for deliberation, which Aristotle called bouleusis and aligned with phronēsis (prudence or practical wisdom), is essential for good decision-making, where the goal is not simply to act, but to act well in the midst of particular complex situations.
Scarry’s call for thinking resonates with Hannah Arendt’s insights on action and the faculty of judgment, as sketched in The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind; and as elucidated by Jacques Taminiaux in The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker (1997). At a time when architects are advocating for more immediate and impactful agency in view of global crises, and calling for less talk/more action, it is timely to patiently reflect on the agencies of careful and imaginative architectural thinking, and to recover thoughtful speech as a form of architectural action.
This Call for Thinking, for the sixth volume of the Montreal Architectural Review, invites papers exploring crucial manifestations, modalities and milieus of architectural thinking.
Contributions may probe any combination of the following themes, considered through analysis of specific discursive practices and/or built works from around the world and across time:
• the inherently embodied, situated, social and material modes of architectural thinking;
• ensemble thinking, or thinking in concert (and in tension) with plural agents in dramatic situations;
• places for thinking, which, as Marco Frascari argued, enable quests for wonder, truth, justice, happiness and a beautiful life;
• philosophical models for architectural thinking, such as interpretations of what Aristotle called in Nicomachean Ethics “architectonic phronēsis” [see MAR, vol. 2 (2015) > http://mar.mcgill.ca/article/view/17 ]; and
• habits of thinking fostered via architectural education. Alberto Pérez-Gómez has argued that the architectural education should focus not on solutions, but on “tactics for thought” nurtured through creative dialogue and critical debate. What are the best pedagogical strategies to cultivate these tactics for thought, so as to best prepare future architects to think and act well – even in an emergency?
We hereby invite submissions related to the history and philosophy of architecture on the above theme in one of three formats: scholarly essays (5,000 – 7,500 words, including endnotes); book reviews (1,000 – 1,500 words); or discursive experiments in deliberative or poetic dialogue (1,000 – 1,500 words). Each submission should be accompanied by a 100-word biography, and, in the case of an essay submission, an abstract of not more than 300 words.
The Montreal Architectural Review welcomes illustrated submissions but stresses the responsibility of the author in both providing the images and securing permissions to reproduce them. Please read the Review’s Copyright Notice before making a submission.
Submissions must be made through the Montreal Architectural Review website:
http://mar.mcgill.ca/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions - where you will be asked to register and to complete the online submission process. A guide to the online submission process is available on our website. All submissions must be in English and adhere to the Montreal Architectural Review Author Guidelines, also available on our website. You will be asked to follow a Preparation Checklist before making a submission.
Any queries should be made through the Montreal Architectural Review website.
Special Issue: “Thinking Architecture”
Guest Editor: Dr. Lisa Landrum
Closing Date: September 1st, 2019 (now closed)
Thinking Architecture
In Thinking in an Emergency (2011), Elaine Scarry exposes a fallacy: that in emergency situations thinking must cease for quick action to prevail. She returns to this false opposition of thinking and acting in the closing chapter of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom (2016). While the thrust of her argument is that weapons of mass destruction are fundamentally incompatible with democracy, her underlying premise – that thinking does not oppose action but orients action – is significant for the democratic art of architecture. Deliberative thinking enables action in the right direction. This capacity for deliberation, which Aristotle called bouleusis and aligned with phronēsis (prudence or practical wisdom), is essential for good decision-making, where the goal is not simply to act, but to act well in the midst of particular complex situations.
Scarry’s call for thinking resonates with Hannah Arendt’s insights on action and the faculty of judgment, as sketched in The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind; and as elucidated by Jacques Taminiaux in The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker (1997). At a time when architects are advocating for more immediate and impactful agency in view of global crises, and calling for less talk/more action, it is timely to patiently reflect on the agencies of careful and imaginative architectural thinking, and to recover thoughtful speech as a form of architectural action.
This Call for Thinking, for the sixth volume of the Montreal Architectural Review, invites papers exploring crucial manifestations, modalities and milieus of architectural thinking.
Contributions may probe any combination of the following themes, considered through analysis of specific discursive practices and/or built works from around the world and across time:
• the inherently embodied, situated, social and material modes of architectural thinking;
• ensemble thinking, or thinking in concert (and in tension) with plural agents in dramatic situations;
• places for thinking, which, as Marco Frascari argued, enable quests for wonder, truth, justice, happiness and a beautiful life;
• philosophical models for architectural thinking, such as interpretations of what Aristotle called in Nicomachean Ethics “architectonic phronēsis” [see MAR, vol. 2 (2015) > http://mar.mcgill.ca/article/view/17 ]; and
• habits of thinking fostered via architectural education. Alberto Pérez-Gómez has argued that the architectural education should focus not on solutions, but on “tactics for thought” nurtured through creative dialogue and critical debate. What are the best pedagogical strategies to cultivate these tactics for thought, so as to best prepare future architects to think and act well – even in an emergency?
We hereby invite submissions related to the history and philosophy of architecture on the above theme in one of three formats: scholarly essays (5,000 – 7,500 words, including endnotes); book reviews (1,000 – 1,500 words); or discursive experiments in deliberative or poetic dialogue (1,000 – 1,500 words). Each submission should be accompanied by a 100-word biography, and, in the case of an essay submission, an abstract of not more than 300 words.
The Montreal Architectural Review welcomes illustrated submissions but stresses the responsibility of the author in both providing the images and securing permissions to reproduce them. Please read the Review’s Copyright Notice before making a submission.
Submissions must be made through the Montreal Architectural Review website:
http://mar.mcgill.ca/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions - where you will be asked to register and to complete the online submission process. A guide to the online submission process is available on our website. All submissions must be in English and adhere to the Montreal Architectural Review Author Guidelines, also available on our website. You will be asked to follow a Preparation Checklist before making a submission.
Any queries should be made through the Montreal Architectural Review website.
Research Interests: Architecture, Aristotle, Architectural Education, Architectural History, Deliberative Democracy, and 15 moreHans-Georg Gadamer, PHRONESIS, Judith Butler, Habitus, Architectural Theory, Architectonic reasoning, Philosophy of Architecture, Design Critical Thinking, Hannah Arendt, Chantal Mouffe, Elaine Scarry, Architecture and Public Spaces, Ethics in Architecture, Theoria, and Democratic Spaces
Research Interests: Architecture, Architectural History, Architecture Design, Architectural Theory, Architecture and Phenomenology, and 17 morePhilosophy of Architecture, Architectural Design, Architecture Teaching Pedagogies, Architectural Design Pedagogy, Architecture Design Studio pedagogical methods, Architectural practice, Aesthetics of Architecture, Architectural Theory and Design, Literature and Architecture, architectural Ethics, Architectural Pedagogy, Poetics of Architecture, Humanities in Architecture, The Role of the Imagination in Architectural Perception, Architectural Aesthetics, Dream Architecture, and Poetry and Architecture
In the fifth century BCE, two Greek dramatists brought "architects" into their plays—and into performance—at the Great Dionysia festival in Athens. For Euripides, "architect" named a protagonist (Odysseus) scheming to overcome the... more
In the fifth century BCE, two Greek dramatists brought "architects" into their plays—and into performance—at the Great Dionysia festival in Athens. For Euripides, "architect" named a protagonist (Odysseus) scheming to overcome the Cyclops; for Aristophanes, a verb form of "architect" qualified a comic hero (Trygaeus) daring to restore Peace. Although remarkable for being among the earliest extant "architects" to appear in Greek literature, these architect-protagonists are also surprising because architecture, as it tends to be objectified in the form of buildings, is not their target of attention. Rather, transformative and restorative schemes are their foremost concern. While such peculiarities already commend these figures for study there are further grounds for considering their deeds: by their exemplary performances in particular situations these "architects" offer mimetic demonstrations of primary architectural acts; acts that, being subtle and ephemeral, are otherwise difficult to perceive. This dissertation interprets the actions of the "architects" in Euripides' satyr play Cyclops and Aristophanes' comedy Peace, specifically by asking: What motivated the dramatic poets to qualify their protagonists as architects? What is implied about architects and architectural acts by the manners in which they did? And, what do the dramatic plots and their mythic models suggest about the peculiar situations that architects figure into and struggle to transform? Beyond probing the plays through such questions, this dissertation also has two theoretical aims: to uncover the earliest examples of a topos, one that posits dramatic protagonists (and dramatic poets) as architects; and, correspondingly, to draw-out the performative aspects of "architecting" that this topos suggests. As this study unfolds, I intend to show that what at first might seem like a casual metaphor opens more profoundly onto an intricate web of mythic, ritual and metaphoric associations that are as telling as they are troubling about the representative deeds and ethical dilemmas that architects perennially enact. Furthermore, in treating Greek sources from the fifth century BCE—from a time when architects were only just beginning to gain that title and so appear as figures of cultural significance—this dissertation argues for a reconsideration of how architektons can be most fundamentally understood; that is, less hierarchically as master-builders, and more poetically and dramatically as agents of archai—as individuals who knowingly initiate, make, and make apparent for others, auspicious beginnings, originating conditions and exemplary restorative schemes.