Beatrice Galilee: The Institute Effect
Wednesday, Nov 18, 20155:39 AMEDT
| SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Los Angeles, CA
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Wed, Nov 18, 7pm W.M. Keck Lecture Hall From fanzines to epoch-defining museum exhibitions, the discourse of architecture has traditionally taken place far from the event of the building itself. Yet today as the discipline of architecture expands and contracts, responding to complexities and the varying dynamics of its construction and representation in the world today; varyingly taking on forms that are political or social, scientific, instructional or artistic, institutional practice is mutating to form part of architectural production. An institution could once be regarded as a physical space or event that mediates the work of building and preserves the material ephemera and working process for future generations, but can now comfortably occupy a territory-less digital space. This lecture reflects on the plurality of contemporary architectural practice and the role of institutions in both mediating, reflecting and contributing towards it. Beatrice Galilee is the Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Trained in Architecture at Bath University, and in History of Architecture MSc at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Galilee specialises in the dissemination of architecture and design through media, curatorial practice, research, editing and teaching. She was the Chief Curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Close, Closer, and has curated exhibitions and events around the world including 2013 and 2012 Milan Design Weeks, 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale and 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Biennale. She is the co-founder and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and event space in London, architectural critic at Domus, and associate lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design. She was the architecture editor of ICON Magazine between 2006 and 2009. http://sciarc.edu/lectures.php?id=2425
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