Mark Cousins – Where is Everyday Life? – Part 8
Lecture date: 2013-02-22Friday Lecture SeriesMark Cousins' Friday lectures recommence by addressing the architectural and artistic use of the category ‘everyday life’ – a realm...
Scenography – Mark Cousins (PART 3/7)
31st January 2014 Friday LecturesThis year’s Friday lectures by Mark Cousins focus on scenography and are primarily concerned with how works of art, drama, literature...
Mark Cousins – Odysseus and Homecoming – Part 3
Lecture date: 2002-01-16Third in a three-part lecture series hosted at the AA by the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History. The homecoming of...
Psychoanalysis and Space – Part 1 – Mark Cousins
Lecture date: 2000-12-10The 'Psychoanalysis and Space' conference, chaired by Mark Cousins, is based upon the premise that many conditions of spatial experience are unconscious,...
German Architecture and its Changing Past – Part 1
Lecture date: 2001-02-10Reunification has created urban and architectural problems concerning the nature of Germany and its past. This conference concentrates upon two acute...
Peter Cook – Stuff and Nonsense for Architecture – Part 1
Lecture date: 2012-01-16Architecture and Education Series, organised by Mark CousinsThis Monday evening lecture series co-ordinated by Mark Cousins asks invited speakers to introduce...
Architectural Education Symposium: Accreditation
Lecture date: 2004-11-03How does the current debate about accreditation affect the AA? How can the issue of the AA’s independence be related to...
Mark Cousins – The Poetics of Cliché: Emma Bovary; Love as Cliché – Part...
Lecture date: 2011-11-25Mark Cousins' lecture course will examine the power of formulations in language or in images which would normally be described as cliché....
The Gesture – Mark Cousins (PART 4/8)
5 December 2014 Friday LecturesThis year’s Friday lectures follow from the previous three years. The Gesture is considered as a fundamental cultural act, one which...
Mark Cousins – Distructure: The Destruction of the Library at Alexandria – Part 3
Lecture date: 2008-11-07This lecture series concerns the destruction of cities and urban objects. It is not a material history of such destruction, but rather...