bread spring 2021: Dialogues III

Teaching Art for Architects: Manifesto
Art and architecture have fragmented.
The teaching of architecture contributes to the alienation of art and architecture.
The mainstream of architectural schools is directed towards technology.
Architecture schools focus mainly on digitalization, sustainability, and planning.
Architecture is not here to serve.
It is here to change the world.
It is time to reconnect architecture with art and to introduce theory, politics, and beauty into the curriculum.
 
Philip Ursprung is a professor of art and architectural history at ETH Zurich. He studied in Geneva, Vienna, and Berlin. He has taught at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, the University of Zurich, Columbia University in New York, and the Institute of Architecture in Barcelona. He was a guest curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the author of the exhibition Herzog & de Meuron: Archeology of the Mind, and the catalog Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (2002). From 2017–2019, he led the Institute of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
 
Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist currently living in Berlin and Zurich. She studied at the Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Karin Sander refers to existing situations in her works and engages with their institutional and historical context. Since September 2007, Karin Sander has been a professor of fundamental principles of design, art, and architecture at ETH Zurich. She is responsible for the artistic education of students in the Department of Architecture.

The originally planned lecture by Philip Ursprung and Anne Lacaton was postponed to May 2022 due to persistent restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.