I was given an opportunity by Architect/Professor Peter Lynch to participate in this amazing class that he is running/organizing for Architecture students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, called:
“The Most Basic Things”
In a series of lectures, conversations, and design projects, we will examine the most basic level of architecture—the underlying ideas and concepts that structure the discipline; the intuitions and shared understandings that ground those concepts; basic design methodology; and the everyday “working material” of architecture and other creative practices.
Leading philosophers, designers, and scholars from Sweden, Hong Kong, and the US will reflect upon the intuitions, feelings, senses, and experiences that underlie our notions of design, professional judgment, history, program, type, drawing, place, and landscape.”
The line up of amazing speakers include:
- Jonna Bornemark, Professor in Philosophy, is a teacher and researcher at the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University (Stockholm)
- Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University (Stockholm) https://www.sh.se/english/sode… , and the founder of Södertörn’s philosophy department. Main research interests: phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and philosophy of history and memory.
- Elizabeth B. Hatz, architect, critic, and art curator, is teaching at KTH Stockholm and SAUL Limerick.
- Malin Zimm is an architect Ph.D. and editor-in-chief at Sweden’s architecture magazine Arkitektur. Zimm has worked as research and analysis strategist at White arkitekter and as Senior Advisor in Architecture at ArkDes (formerly the Swedish Museum of Architecture), as well as editor-in-chief of the architecture magazine Rum.
- Peter Lynch, KTH Guest Professor, organizer of “The Most Basic Things,” has run his own architecture studio since 1991 in New York, Hong Kong/Shenzhen, Beijing, and now Stockholm. Building Culture PLA focuses on applied research in architecture, urbanism, and building technology: www.buildingculture.se.
- Katja Grillner is Professor of Critical Studies in Architecture, Head of Department at KTH School of Architecture (2019-) https://www.kth.se/profile/gri… . Her research on architecture and landscape combines theoretical, historical and literary strategies for spatial exploration.
- Thordis Arrhenius, Associate Professor at KTH, is an architect and postdoctoral researcher https://www.kth.se/profile/thordis?l=en. Her teaching, practice and research is focused on contemporary critical issues in heritage and urbanism.
- Mikael Bergquist is an architect and Lecturer at KTH https://www.kth.se/profile/mbergqu?l=en, living and working in Stockholm. Educated at KTH and the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Started his own office in 1996: www.mba.nu.
- Per Johansson holds a PhD in human ecology and PhD in the history of ideas, and is a prominent cultural critic and public philosopher in Sweden https://diakrino-perjohansson…. senior lecturer, researcher, and educational leader in human ecology at Lund University.
- Beate Hølmebakk runs the architectural practice manthey kula together with partner Per Tamsen. http://www.mantheykula.no/ manthey kula’s production spans from ideal, explorative projects to public commissions.
- Stanislaus Fung is a researcher in landscape architecture and architecture who has written extensively on Chinese landscape architecture and architecture in both traditional and contemporary contexts.
The talk which I gave on the first day of this symposium component of this class can be found with this link.
All of the talks of this series are being streamed live here at NAV Sweden’s facebook page.