Stephan Trüby: Right-Wing Spaces - lecture at Galerie VI PER

Galerie VI PER would like to cordially invite you to a lecture by Stephan Trüby, which is part of the accompanying program to the exhibition Contested Sites of Memory.
Is the architectural and urban agenda hiding behind the politics of contemporary (neo)fascists and populist, radical, and extremist right-wing forces? The research project Right-Wing Spaces, which has been ongoing since 2018 at the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (design and theory) (IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart (Director: Prof. Dr. Stephan Trüby), suggests that the answer to this question is quite clear, not just in the German context: "it seems that architecture ... has become a key instrument of authoritarian, populist right with a revisionist view of history." The ongoing results of the project were presented in the magazine ARCH+, no. 235: Rechte Räume: Bericht einer Europareise (Right-Wing Spaces: Report on a Journey through Europe, 2019), and also in Trüby's book Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Right-Wing Spaces: Political Essays and Conversations, 2020). In his lecture in Prague, Stephan Trüby will present some of his observations in the context of recent debates about places of memory (lieux de mémoire) by Pierre Nora and "multidirectional memory" by Michael Rothberg.

Stephan Trüby (*1970) has been a professor of architecture and cultural theory and director of the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Institut für Grundlagen moderner Architektur und Entwerfen, IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart since April 2018. He served as a visiting professor at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe (2007–2009), head of the postgraduate study program in Scenography/Spatial Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (2009–2014), and professor of architecture and cultural theory at the Technical University of Munich (2014–2018). His publications include Exit-Architecture: Design between War and Peace (2008), The World of Madelon Vriesendorp (2008, co-authored with Shumon Basar), Germania, Venezia: The German Entries to the Venice Architecture Biennale since 1991 (2016, with Verena Hartbaum), Absolute Architekturbeginner: Schriften 2004–2014 (2017), Die Geschichte des Korridors (2018), and Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (2020). He is a regular contributor to the magazine ARCH+.