Mark Lee, “Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture”
Mark Lee, “Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture”
A recording of this event is available with audio description .
Event Description
Mark Lee will deliver the 2023 Walter Gropius Lecture at the GSD.
AIA members who attend this event may be eligible for continuing education units. Please reach out to [email protected] if you are interested.
Speaker
Mark Lee, MArch ’95, is Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor in Practice at the GSD. He is also a principal and founding partner of the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee . Since its establishment in 1998, Johnston Marklee has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 40 major awards. A book on the work of the firm, entitled HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE, was published by Birkhauser. This followed monographs on the firm’s work, published by 2G, El Croquis, and ATU.
Iñaki Ábalos, “Architecture for the Search for Knowledge”
Iñaki Ábalos, “Architecture for the Search for Knowledge”
“Architecture for the Search for Knowledge” is the title of an aphorism written by Friedrich Nietzsche and included in his book The Gay Science (1882). Since the time Iñaki Ábalos was a student at the ETSAM in Madrid, while he has practiced as an architect, educator, and essayist, he has regarded this aphorism as a mantra. He has quoted it in nearly all his books, used it in many of his projects, and thought of it as a mandate during the years of his service as chair of the Department of Architecture at the GSD, from 2013 to 2016.
One day, and probably soon, we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities; quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with high, glazed cloisters for rainy or sunny weather where no street-vendor’s cry or horse-drawn traffic noise can reach, and where good manners would prohibit even priests from praying aloud -buildings and sites that would altogether give expression to the sublimity of thoughtfulness and of stepping aside (….) We wish to see ourselves translated into stone and plants, we want to take walks in ourselves when we stroll around these buildings and gardens. (From Nietzsche’s The Gay Science)
The Walter Gropius Lecture is a lecture on architecture, given by the departing chair of the Department of Architecture.