Vortrag
Architektur des Lebens: Der sowjetische Modernismus und die Humanwissenschaften
07/2023
URL: https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/kultur/termine/2023_workshop_life-building.html
Organisation: Freie Universität Berlin
Veranstaltungsname: "Life-Building. On Metabolic Structures, Energetic Art, and Dynamic Architecture in the Early Soviet Period"
Beschreibung
This presentation will detail the argument of the author’s recently published book Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Situating Soviet interwar architectural theory in its transdisciplinary and transnational context, it will unpack it as a discourse about society and the human. The presentation will identify this discourse as monism, an intellectual framework centering on 'life,' a synthetic notion that had been developed at the intersection of architecture, psychology, and social engineering since the end of the nineteenth century.
