Architectural Theorists Mark Cousins
Debating Fundamentals: Probing the Autopoiesis of Architecture – Part 6 – Mark Cousins
Lecture date: 2011-03-11AA Symposium Patrik Schumacher and Mark CousinsAA SymposiumParticipants: Patrik Schumacher, Jeff Kipnis, Lars Spuybroek, Charles Jencks, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf...
Mark Cousins – The Ugly – Part 5
Lecture date: 2007-02-09This series elaborates The Ugly as a subjective response to certain objects, and analyses the defences of the subject to The Ugly....
Mark Cousins – Conservation: Victims and Politics – Part 11
Lecture date: 1997-02-28'Conservation' has established itself as the unexamined virtue of our age. It serves as a new norm with which to express a...
Mark Cousins – Where is Everyday Life? – Part 3
Lecture date: 2012-11-09This year’s Friday lectures investigate the architectural and artistic use of the category ‘everyday life’, a realm which appears to be immune...
Mark Cousins – Technology and the First Person Singular: Homer and the Voice – Part 1
Lecture date: 2010-10-22Many writers consider technology as a self-evident thing; these lectures will not assume that it exists in this form. By looking at...
Mark Cousins – Miracles: The Poetry of the Poor
Lecture date: 2016-11-18In modernity the question of miracles has been almost completely displaced. If they are discussed at all, it is usually to show...
Mark Cousins – The Poetics of Cliché – Part 7
Lecture date: 2012-02-03Friday Lecture SeriesThis term Mark Cousins’ Friday evening lectures will deal with the fact that commonplaces nonetheless frequently exercise a powerful...
Mark Cousins – To whom do we turn?
Lecture date: 2017-02-03In modernity the question of miracles has been almost completely displaced. If they are discussed at all, it is usually to show...
Architecture and it’s Past – Part 6 – Mark Campbell – ‘A Man without Qualities’
Lecture date: 2010-05-21Mark Cousins introduces Mark Campbell, who presents a paper on the historian Geoffrey Scott. It is interesting to discuss Scott’s architecture of...