Debating Fundamentals: Probing the Autopoiesis of Architecture – Part 6 – Mark Cousins

Lecture date: 2011-03-11 AA Symposium Patrik Schumacher and Mark Cousins AA Symposium Participants: Patrik Schumacher, Jeff Kipnis, Lars Spuybroek, Charles Jencks, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf...

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: 2012-11-09 This 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: 2010-10-22 Many 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: 2016-11-18 In 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: 2012-02-03 Friday Lecture Series This 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: 2017-02-03 In 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: 2010-05-21 Mark Cousins introduces Mark Campbell, who presents a paper on the historian Geoffrey Scott. It is interesting to discuss Scott’s architecture of...

Mark Cousins – Where is Everyday Life? – Part 8

Lecture date: 2013-02-22 Friday Lecture Series Mark Cousins' Friday lectures recommence by addressing the architectural and artistic use of the category ‘everyday life’ – a realm...