UNAPOLOGETICALLY FAT: Voluptuous Architecture

Thursday, March 7, 2013, 2 - 3:30pm

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | COOPER THESIS LECTURE SERIES

LECTURE BY IVI DIAMANTOPOULOU

Architecture can now become voluptuous -and that does not mean that at  it jettisons the line or embraces the curve. Re-think architecture as a bottom-heavy construct, barely escaping  symmetry, succumbing to gravity and being legibly informed by its forces. Shaped by a counter-aesthetic theory that aspires to re-conceptualise  antiquated notions of ‘kallos’ revolving around metrics and proportions,  and contemporary aesthetics of reduction and hype-rarticulation, Voluptuous Architecture negotiates surface and massing, austerity and lavishness, the complex and the monolithic , the beautiful , the weird  and the grotesque.

Thursday 7 March at 2pm

Room 714

Foundation Building

 

Open to current students/faculty/staff of The Cooper Union

 

 

 

 

 

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