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Lisa Landrum
University of Manitoba, Architecture, Former Assoc. Dean Research, Assoc. Professor, currently Adjunt Professor
Chair 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/
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/
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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.
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.
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.)
"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)..."
ISBN: 9781848225312
Link to the eBook listing on WorldCat OCLC and find access through a library in your area
>> https://worldcat.org/en/title/1334884252
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.
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.
Link to the eBook listing on WorldCat OCLC to find it a library near you:
https://worldcat.org/en/title/966446247
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..."
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
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.
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.
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.)
"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)..."
ISBN: 9781848225312
Link to the eBook listing on WorldCat OCLC and find access through a library in your area
>> https://worldcat.org/en/title/1334884252
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.
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.
Link to the eBook listing on WorldCat OCLC to find it a library near you:
https://worldcat.org/en/title/966446247
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..."
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
A link is provided also to the publisher's website for Attunement
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..."
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/
Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College
June 28 - Aug. 21, 2016
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!
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
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.
""
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.""
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.