A Matter of Opinion
The Qualifications of Contemporary Architectural Criticism
A Criticism Conference organized by the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture
11 April 2009, Knowlton Hall Auditorium 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Through the presentations of current work by a select group of architectural historians, theorists and critics, this conference surveys and analyzes the techniques of description, discernment and discrimination in relation to the issues of architectural criticism today.
| Introductory Remarks Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Director, Knowlton School of Architecture |
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| 10:00am | Descriptions This panel will consider the question of the act of description as a critical operation, in relation to both generating descriptions for yet unnamed phenomena, and the re-description of established entities in a new light. |
| “Matter of Facts: The New Casual-ty, revisited” John McMorrough, The Ohio State University |
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| "Dictionary Entry: IAUS" Lucia Allais, Princeton University Society of Fellows |
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| “Architecture as Corporate Ontology; or, the Topology of the System of Objects” John Harwood, Oberlin College |
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| Timothy Hyde: Moderator | |
| 1:00pm | Discriminations This panel will consider the role of qualitative judgments in architectural writing and explore the means and frameworks by which it is possible to make such claims today. |
| “Winning” Jeannie Kim, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
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| "Britain's Ugliest Building" Timothy Hyde, Harvard Graduate School of Design |
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| “Under Constraint” Enrique Walker, Columbia University |
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| Ana Miljacki: Moderator | |
| 3:00pm | Discernments This panel will examine how the qualities of novelty, criteria without previous definition, can be made legible, or understood in relation to emerging conditions. |
| “Disciplinary Kickbacks” Penelope Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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| “Opting to Matter: situating concerns” Ariane Lourie Harrison, Yale School of Architecture |
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| “Adaptations: The Architectural Project in The Age of Postproduction” Ana Miljacki, MIT School of Architecture and Planning |
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| John McMorrough: Moderator |
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