Felicity Scott – Bartlett International Lecture Series
Wednesday, Dec 14, 20166:30 PM - 8 PMBST
| Cruciform Lecture Theatre, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
London, GBRelated
Working against the grain of the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 70s, in June 1970 a group of California hippies disenchanted by the ongoing war in Indochina, rented a vacant six-story industrial warehouse in downtown San Francisco and founded Project One as an urban commune of architects, artists, filmmakers, musicians, craftspeople, and, in turn, media collectives and computer programmers.
Focusing on Resource One – a group of computer programmers within the commune – along with the media collective Optic Nerve, this lecture will trace how Project One served, for a short while, as a key nexus between an architecture symptomatic of emergent post-Fordist forms of life and communication networks. Moreover, it will put this supposedly alternative environment into a dialogue with British critic Reyner Banham who in 1971, and with typical lyrical flair, incisively revealed the limitations of ideals of alternative networks and emergent models of participation in architecture. Felicity D. Scott is director of the PhD programme in Architecture (History and Theory), and co-director of the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. Seeking to expand and complicate the subject matter and methodological frameworks through which modern and contemporary architectural practices are addressed.
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