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19:00
THE END OF WAYS
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Conference
. Barcelona
Organitza
Centre Obert d’Arquitectura
Lloc
Sala d'Actes
Plaça Nova, 5
Barcelona
Horari
19 h
Preu
Free
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Conference by Alejandro Zaera-Polo. The architect from Madrid will talk about his projects in the context of post-truth. In ‘The End of Ways’, Zaera-Polo will try to articulate the implications that certain contemporary cultural and political processes have on the discipline. And vice versa: how the discipline influences certain cultural processes such as post-truth, populism and identity politics.
For the architect, COVID 19 and the war in Ukraine become the milestones that mark the end of the postmodern/poststructuralist culture that has been prevalent since the 70s in architecture and artistic disciplines. AZPML ‘s work in recent years will be presented not so much as an example, but as an index of the changes to come.
Alejandro Zaera Polo
Founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML). Graduated with honours from the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University (MARCH II). He worked for the Metropolitan Architecture office in Rotterdam, before establishing Foreign Office Architects in 1993 in London. He started AZPML as a legacy practice of FOA after its dissolution in 2011.
In addition to his professional practice, he was the dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and the Princeton School of Architecture, where he was a professor between 2012 and 2021. Zaera-Polo has been a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA and was a master of unity at the Architectural Association of London.
He has been a frequent contributor to professional publications such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Log, AD and Harvard Design Magazine, and has published a series of books: ‘The Sniper's Record. Architectural Chronicles of Generation X’ (BCN: Actar 2012); ‘Imminent Commons. Urban issues for the near future/The expanded city’ (BCN: Actar 2017); and ‘The Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces’ (BCN: Actar 2021).