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Siegfried Kracauer, a cultural theorist and film critic active during the Weimar Republic and then in the United States, was trained as an architect. His theory of the mass ornament is the point of departure in Joan Ockman’s reflection on the architectural spectacle.

lecture: Joan OCKMAN, “Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Substance of the Surface.”
Wednesday, 11/20
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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“Let us not deceive ourselves,” Victor Hugo once advised, in his iconic Hunchback of Notre Dame. “Architecture is dead, and will never come to life again; it is destroyed by the power of the printed book.” Both as a discipline and a profession, architecture lagged behind the other applied arts. Even when measures toward modernization were finally instituted, many of the most innovative, technically reproducible designs were hived off from the realm of architecture proper as mere works of “engineering.”

“Ruins of Modernity” with Peter EISENMAN, Reinhold MARTIN, Joan OCKMAN, Bernard TSCHUMI, & more
Thursday, 02/07
7.00-10.00 pm / Room 802
NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square S.
New York, NY 10012

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