Reinhold Martin: Ideal-Material - přednášky v Galerii VI PER
Aesthetics, Technics, and Dialectics
Gallery VI PER warmly invites you to another lecture this summer as part of the lecture series History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture.
The lecture, operating at the intersection of historical materialism, proposes instead of the metaphysics of the material basis – whether it is technology or labor – an inexhaustible dialectic of ideal and material processes. The aesthetics that perceive the artwork more as a medium of thought than as a medium of experience or ideological expression provides, within this ideal-material dialectic, a basis for the study of technical media, including architecture. To give an idea of the implications of this approach, the lecture will outline the conception of technology as a symbolic form, which returns to the neo-Kantian philosophy of Ernst Cassirer and from there progresses through the philosophical aesthetics of the twentieth century to contemporary politics of technological significance. It is a dialectic in the full sense of the word: a constant meeting of the world of ideas and the world of material production, with both worlds remaining vividly real.
Reinhold Martin is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and a historian of architecture and media. In his research, he explores the intersections of architecture, media, and political economy, focusing on corporate spaces, postmodernism, urban infrastructure, and universities as media complexes. He is the author of several books, including The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (2003), Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (2010), The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (2016), and Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University (2021). He is a co-editor of the book Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International (with Claire Zimmerman, 2024). At Columbia University, Martin is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Media, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Committee on Global Thought. He previously directed the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and was also a co-founder and co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Grey Room.
Respondent: Jana Ndiaye Beránková
The lecture is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Suture Press publishing house as part of the ArchConcepts project (reg. no. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008600), which is co-financed by the European Union under the operational program Jan Amos Komenský.
The lecture, operating at the intersection of historical materialism, proposes instead of the metaphysics of the material basis – whether it is technology or labor – an inexhaustible dialectic of ideal and material processes. The aesthetics that perceive the artwork more as a medium of thought than as a medium of experience or ideological expression provides, within this ideal-material dialectic, a basis for the study of technical media, including architecture. To give an idea of the implications of this approach, the lecture will outline the conception of technology as a symbolic form, which returns to the neo-Kantian philosophy of Ernst Cassirer and from there progresses through the philosophical aesthetics of the twentieth century to contemporary politics of technological significance. It is a dialectic in the full sense of the word: a constant meeting of the world of ideas and the world of material production, with both worlds remaining vividly real.
Reinhold Martin is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and a historian of architecture and media. In his research, he explores the intersections of architecture, media, and political economy, focusing on corporate spaces, postmodernism, urban infrastructure, and universities as media complexes. He is the author of several books, including The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (2003), Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (2010), The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (2016), and Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University (2021). He is a co-editor of the book Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International (with Claire Zimmerman, 2024). At Columbia University, Martin is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Media, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Committee on Global Thought. He previously directed the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and was also a co-founder and co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Grey Room.
Respondent: Jana Ndiaye Beránková
The lecture is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Suture Press publishing house as part of the ArchConcepts project (reg. no. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008600), which is co-financed by the European Union under the operational program Jan Amos Komenský.
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