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The Berlage lecture: David T. van Zanten

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In May 1912, the young Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony won an international competition to design and eventually carry out the capital city of Australia. They furthermore attempt to turn a second competition for the parliament building itself into a model of new, “modern” architecture, gaining the support during a trip to Europe (March, 1914) of a number of the leading architects—Otto Wagner, Louis Sullivan, John James Burnet, Victor Laloux. Projects exist for that second competition by leading radical “modern” architects such as Eliel Saarinen and Purcell & Elmslie, although the First World War cuts the project short.

 

However, our usual “history” pretends that buildings emerge one after another in a quietly developing “conversation in form” when, in fact, they are complex professional thrusts and parries, dreams and nightmares. A competition is, first of all, political in its nature: the politics of making a certain design decision “in public”, the politics of images (not buildings at all yet) produced to take advantage of this, the politics of jury decision-making in itself. This is a moment when the real complexity of design decision-making becomes unmistakable and fascinating. In addition, this particular project throws Chicago modernist architecture in a new light, its reach and ambition is much larger and more systematic than historians have come to make us imagine. On the Eve of the First World War it extended to partnerships with the leading progressive architects of Europe and realized itself in a whole city: the new capital of Australia, Canberra.

 

The Berlage Sessions is a thematic seven-part seminar series focusing on scholarly research and critical approaches to the history and theory of architecture and urban design. This semester’s theme, “Building Competitions,” explores architectural competitions as opportunities of experimentation. Lecturers will examine the histories, politics, policies, and processes of canonical architectural competitions, from the mid eighteenth century to the present.

General information
Type
Lecture
Date
June 12, 2020
Schedule
17:00 - 19:00 hrs.
Location
Delft, The Netherlands
Venue
Your home (Online event)
Organizer
The Berlage TU Delft Faculty of Architecture
Price
Free
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