BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:549@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T193000 DTSTAMP:20240523T154506Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2022-sciame-lecture-series-willi am-brinkman-clark/ SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: William Brinkman-Clark DESCRIPTION:This lecture is held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sci ame Lecture Series\, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."\n\n \;\n\nWilliam Brinkman-Clark is a professor at t he Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research focuses on the cosmetic relation between the aesthetic and the politic as it regards publ ic space and Architecture. He has written various articles for Historia y Grafía\, Cuadernos de Vivienda y Urbanismo\, Theorein and Bitácora Arquitectura. In 2019 he published Ciudad:Tragedia\, an exploration of the unavoidably tragic nature of all modern practices of architectural and urban design. His forthcoming book\, Antígona Plástica\, explores the way aesthetic categories of rigidity and uprightness have manifested and entrenched themselves in western notions of class and gender\, and how the concept of plasticity can be an instrument that can not only help us i n understanding the resilience of traditional societal structuring\, but a lso in their dismantlement.\n\nThroughout late-modernity\, Architecture ha s progressively relied on scientific and technological knowledge as a mean s to justify itself and its projects. With some notable exceptions\, aesth etic considerations have been relegated to a secondary or complementary ro le. Beauty in Architecture has become something that can be considered onl y if Reason has first solved its socio-economical requirements\; and even then\, we tend to frame the quest for Beauty as superficial\, capricious\, and banal.\n\nThroughout Western Culture\, Beauty has had an unrelinquish able part in the construction of any World deemed worthy of chasing. Archi tecture holds a special responsibility in these Ethics: the Vitruvian Tria d does not give us a choice on whether we should incorporate Beauty into o ur design of the habitable world\; it mandates Stability\, Utility\,and Be auty.\n\nIn the relation between Architecture and Migration\, this forgott en mandate becomes apparent. Solving problems such as -- among others -- h ousing for the displaced or shelter for those in movement in a functional and economical manner is\, of course\, indispensable. However\, Architectu re must remember that Beauty it is one of the main forces that jumpstarts human movement. Aristotle speculated that only a beautiful image can move us in the direction of what is fair and just. Has that really changed? If not\, Architecture must not only reconsider the importance of Beauty\, it must also question who determines what is Beautiful: are we to continue pr etending a few can dictate what Beauty is\, or are we to open our eyes to what really moves people\; to Democratic Beauty?\n\n \;\n\nProfessor B radley Horn will introduce the speaker.\n\nSuggested Reading: Notes on th e Topologies of the Migrant Body and the Philosophy of the History of Capi tal.\n\n \;\n\n"Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration" in the Americas presents meditations on the topic of migration from nontraditiona l\, creative\, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The distinguished speak ers -- architects\, landscape architects\, architecture historians\, socia l historians\, a philosopher\, an anthropologist\, and an attorney -- ques tion conventions\, especially the conceptualization of migration as linear . They frame migration as a multivalent process\, considering the lived re alities and material conditions of migration\, historically and in the pre sent. Migration in the Americas is more than just the movement and resettl ement of bodies\, numbers that cross lines and appear/disappear in differe nt places. Migration is not merely (dis)placement\, it is also a metamorph osis. Migrants are human beings who are transformed to the core by their m ovement\, and they transform not only their places of departure and arriva l\, but the entire space that is filled with their journeys.\n\n \;\n\ nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium with remote option a vailable. See https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirem ents for in-person visitors.\n\nFor remote viewing via Zoom\, please regis ter here.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitze r Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO o f Sciame Construction.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Archived Video,Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR