Modernity is a story about how forms of calculation grew across the world allowing more things to be measured, exchanged, and circulated. It is a story about how certain value systems came to colonise and finally rule over others. It is also a story about changes in the kinds of things we can calculate – since they are not even ‘things’ anymore – calculation applies to attention, to knowledge, certainly to our very future, perhaps even to our souls.[1]
This presentation will argue that today this ‘complexity’ is the very medium for contemporary forms of power. In response we must rescue an important, if under theorised, architectural term and give it a new life. This term is scale, and it is the key that will allow us to recompose a new political relation to our present order of indirect violence. [2]
Bio
In 2010 he guest edited a special issue of Architectural Design titled ‘Post-traumatic Urbanism’. More recently, his work has been published in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth,The Journal of Architecture, Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, New Geographies 5: The Mediterranean, and Performing Trauma. He exhibits and lectures internationally, most recently at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Tate Britain, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, and Storefront for Art and Architecture New York. He has been a guest critic at the Royal College of Art London, Columbia University GSAPP, Angewandte Vienna and TU Berlin. [3]
[1] Presentation syllabus as stated in Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo
[2] Ibid.
[3] Bartlett School of Architecture website, April 2015
ADRIAN LAHOUD / BARTLETT INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES 2014/15Adrian Lahoud // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2014/15 // from Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo.
Adrian Lahoud / Bartlett International Lecture Series 2014/15
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