The committee
As the mainspring of our ongoing evaluation project, we have invited a visiting committee to provide us with new perspectives on the course. In alphabetical order:
Elena Carlini is an architect based in Trieste, Italy. She received her education from the Istituto Universitario d’Architettura (IUA) in Venice and, as a Fulbright Scholar, from Columbia University in New York. Formerly a visiting professor at Syracuse University, University of Texas and Kansas State University, she currently teaches at the Università di Ferrara. In addition to numerous built projects, her writings have appeared in Casabella, Detail, Parametro and other journals.
Magnus Haglund is an author and art critic based in Gothenburg, where he also teaches at the HDK Academy of Design and Crafts. In particular, his course Writing as an artistic tool shares much common ground with the one under evaluation here. Among his many books, one in particular deserves mention in this connection: Den nakna staden: människor och platser i Göteborg (The naked city: people and places in Gothenburg), a collaboration with the German photographer Stefan Schneider.
Mari Hvattum is professor of architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Norway. After studies in Trondheim, Bergen and Cambridge, she has taught at a range of universities across Europe and also acted as vice president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) in 2010–2014. At present, she heads the research project The Printed and the Built: Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe.
Peter Lang is professor in architectural theory and history at the Royal Institute of Art (“Mejan”) in Stockholm, Sweden, where he conducts post-graduate research courses in architecture, design and multi-media communications. Educated at Syracuse University and New York University, Lang works on the history and theory of post-war Italian architecture and design. He has been a member of the Rome based urban arts research group Stalker since 1997.
Philip Ursprung is professor in the history of art and architecture at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He has studied and taught in Geneva, Vienna, Berlin, Zürich, Basel and, as a visiting professor, at Columbia University in New York as well as the Barcelona Institute of Architecture. Currently, he leads the project Tourism and Cultural Heritage: A Study on Franz Junghuhn at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.
The committee will gather in Gothenburg on December 5, 2016 for a public seminar at the Chalmers School of Architecture. Stay tuned for more information!