The Knight's Move: Anthony Vidler
Monday 20 June 2011, 8 pm
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language: English
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Anthony Vidler is a professor of architecture at Cooper Union in New York. He is the author of important and inspiring books like ‘Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture' (2000), ‘The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely' (1992) and more recently ‘Histories of the Immediate Present. Inventing Architectural Modernism' (2008).
The lecture at Stroom is entitled 'Utopia and Architecture from Plato to Koolhaas: Possible and Impossible Futures for Cities.'
Utopias from Plato to More, from Ledoux to Le Corbusier, have often
invented or adopted architectural forms to imply that they could be
built in the present. Vidler will argue that the role of utopias is to
invent futures as a critique of the present. Utopias should never be
built but rather act as paradigms of the impossible, urging the possible
to higher efforts.
The Knight's Move
‘The Knight's Move' is a series of lectures by eminent
international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and
inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain,
and community. Just as the knight moves in an atypical and unusual way
across the chessboard, Stroom Den Haag likewise wants to cut across all
disciplines and thus stimulate rethinking the city.
Media partner of this series of lectures is: De Groene Amsterdammer
The Knight's Move is made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund.
Archive 'The Knight's Move' 2009-present
- Monday 20 Jun '11 8 pm
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free
