e-flux Architecture

Theory's Curriculum launch event and symposium
Saturday, May 18, 10am–5pm

e-flux
311 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
USA

www.e-flux.com

Syllabi are theory's infrastructure. They set a program for study, give structure to vast networks of ideas, and define an interpretative stance on the world. This one–day event will address who our theory syllabi represent, what theoretical objects or concerns they should address, and why we should continue to teach architectural theory today? The program will include the launch and presentation of the e–flux Architecture project Theory's Curriculum as well as responses to the project by twelve panelists who will discuss the who, what and why of architectural theory today in a series of panel sessions.

Panelists
Marta Caldeira, Yale University
Tao Sule DuFour, Cornell University
Mario Gooden, Coumbia GSAPP
Sophie Hochhäusl, University of Pennsylvania
Dora Epstein Jones, Texas Tech University
Sanford Kwinter, Pratt Institute
Peter Laurence, Clemson University
Sylvia Lavin, Princeton University
John May, Harvard GSD
Ana Miljacki, MIT
Meredith TenHoor, Pratt Institute
David Theodore, McGill University 

Provocateurs
Matthew Allen, University of Toronto
Joseph Bedford, Virginia Tech
Elisa Dainese, Dalhousie University
Gabriel Fuentes, Marywood University
Antonio Furgiuele, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Joseph Godlewski, Syracuse University
Jeremy Lecomte, SCI-Arc
Jake Matatyaou, SCI-Arc
Ginger Nolan, University of Southern California
Bryan Norwood, University of Michigan
Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Iowa State University
Marrikka Trotter, SCI-Arc

Program
Introductions
10–11am

Session 1: Who?
11am–12:15pm
Meredith TenHoor, David Theodore, Tao Sule DuFour, Sophie Hochhäusl; ​moderated by Joseph Godlewski

Lunc
12:15–1:30pm

Session 2: What?
1:30–2:45pm
Ana Miljacki, John May, Mario Gooden, Dora Epstein Jones; moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco

Break
2:45–3pm

Session 3: Why?
3–4:15pm
Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, Marta Caldeira, Peter Laurence; moderated by Joseph Bedford

Closing remarks
4:15–4:45pm: Joseph Bedford and Nick Axel

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.