kruh autumn 2014: Adam Caruso + Laurent Stalder

The Kruh Association and the Faculty of Architecture at ETH invite you to a series of lectures by prominent Swiss architects at the Světozor cinema in Prague. The autumn series will be introduced by architectural theorist Laurent Stalder and architect from London Adam Caruso. Both share an interest in connecting the old with the new and the context.

Adam Caruso + Laurent Stalder

October 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM

Světozor Cinema, Vodičkova 41, Prague 1

Adam Caruso, The Illusion of Modernism
About the difference between orthodox modernism and modern architecture that seeks to communicate with the full reality of contemporary culture.

Adam Caruso studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Before founding his own practice with Peter St John (1990), he worked in the offices of Florian Beigel and Arup Associates. From 1990 to 2000, he taught at the British University of North London, and between 2002-2005 he was a professor of architecture at the University of Bath. He has guest lectured as a professor of architecture at the following schools: Akademie für Architektur in Mendrisio, Harvard Graduate School of Design, ETH Zurich, and the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. Adam Caruso became a professor of architecture and construction at ETH Zurich in 2011.


Laurent Stalder. Neither Old Nor New. The Search for Autonomous Architecture
The lecture will provide a concentrated overview of Swiss architectural production over the last forty years – the 1970s and their groundbreaking competitions, the 1980s and the emergence of the so-called Analog School, the turn of the century and the shift from a cultural to a more material understanding of architecture, and finally the contemporary production. The lecture will focus on the changing fate of the concept of autonomy.

Laurent Stalder has been an extraordinary professor of the history and theory of architecture at ETH Zurich since 2011. His research focuses on the history and theory of architecture from the 19th to the 21st century in relation to the history of technology. His most recent publications include: Herrmann Muthesius: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf (The Country House as a Cultural-Historical Construct, 2008), Valerio Olgiati (2008), Der Schwellenatlas (The Threshold Atlas, 2009), God & Co. François Dallegret: Beyond the Bubble (God & Co. François Dallegret. Beyond the Bubble, 2011), Atelier Bow-Wow: A Primer (Atelier Bow-Wow. A Primer, 2013). Articles by Laurent Stalder have been published in the journals AA Files, Arch+, Greyroom, The Journal of Architecture, Werk, Bauen & Wohnen, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.

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