
We see architecture as the direct result of a way of life (A+PS 1955)
Irénée Scalbert è uno critico e storico dell’architettura. Ha insegnato alla AA dal 1989 fino al 2006, è stato visiting professor nel GSD della Harvard University ed attualmente è professore al SAUL (Univeristy of LImerick).
Irénée Scalbert es crítico y historiador de arquitectura. Ha sido profesor en la AA desde 1989 hasta 2006, visiting profesor en la GSD Harvard Univesity y actualmente da clase en SAUL (University of LImericK).
Irénée Scalbert is architecture critic and historian. He has taught at the AA School from 1989 to 2006, at the GSD, Harvard University as a Visiting Professor, and presently at SAUL at the University of Limerick.
Si è formato alla AA, università in cui ha successivamente insegnato a partire dagli anni ‘80. Durante questa esperienza, con suoi colleghi e amici (Peter St. John, Adam Caruso, Tony Fretton, Mark Pimlott, …) ha sviluppato una riflessione critica “laterale” rispetto ai temi dominanti della Golden Age di Alvin Boyarsky (info sul clima AA 1971-90: Rem Koolhaas in Field Trip: (A)A Memoir ; Peter Cook in Architectural Review): una reazione ai formalismi e alla Paper Architecture che “riscopre” le basi sociali e materiali (aggettivi-tabú nella AA) dell’architettura.
Ha estudiado en la AA y ha impartido clase en la misma universidad a partir de los años 80. Durante esta experiencia, con sus colegas y amigos (Peter St. John, Adam Caruso, Tony Fretton, Mark Pimlott, …) ha desarrollado una reflexión “lateral” con respecto a las temáticas dominantes de la Golden Age de Alvin Boyarsky (info sobre el clima AA 1971-90: Rem Koolhaas in Field Trip: (A)A Memoir ; Peter Cook in Architectural Review ): una reacción a los formalismos y a la Paper Architecture que “re-descubre” las bases sociales y materiales (adjetivos-tabú en la AA) de la arquitectura .
He was educated at the AA, where he has subsequently taught since the Eighties. During that time, with his colleagues and friends (Peter St. John, Adam Caruso, Tony Fretton, Mark Pimlott, …) he has developed a “lateral” reflection opposed to the prevailing AA themes: a reaction to the formalisms and the Paper Architecture, typical of the Golden Age of Alvin Boyarsky (info about the AA atmosphere between 1971 and 1990: Rem Koolhaas in Field Trip: (A)A Memoir ; Peter Cook in Architectural Review), which “re-discovers” the social and material (taboo-adjectives at the AA) basis of architecture.
Scalbert delinea così una complessa rete di relazioni umane che mostra in tutta la sua articolazione e chiaroscuri le influenze tra generazioni e i flussi non lineari delle idee: da Trista Tzara a Caruso-St John.
De esta forma, Scalbert delinea una compleja red de relaciones humanas que muestra/enseña en toda su articulación y claroscuros las influencias entre generaciones y los flujos no lineares de las ideas: de Tristan Tzara a Caruso-St John
Thus, Scalbert draws a complex net of human relations that shows, by its entire articulation and “chiaroscuro”, the influences through generations and the non linear flows of thought: from Tristan Tzara to Caruso-St John.
Qui l’audio e alcune slides della presentazione:
Aquí, el audio y unas diapositívas de la conferencia:
Here, the podcast and some slides of the lecture:

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6:30 Zaha Hadid - The Peak (1983)

7:00 Nigel Coates: paper architecture

8:00 Peter Salter: Oriental Museum competition, Durham University (1983). PSa link between the AA and APS during Boyarsky’s Golden Age

10:00 Peter St. John with Adam Caruso: Dolls house (1994)

15:30 John Winter: Summer house (1991)

19:00 A+PS: Upper Lawn Pavilion (1959-62)

20:00 - Caruso - St. John: house in Lincolnshire (1993-94)

26:00 Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery (1992) /1

26:00 Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery (1992) /2

31:30 CIAM in Brussels (1930): a “political party” inside architecture

33:00 Team X at Van Eyck’s garden: “family oriented” and elitist meeting

34:00 Charter of Athens Urbanism nowadays

40:00 Independent Group: Parallel of Life and Art (1953 - ICA, London)
42:30 Retrospectively, Paolozzi seems quite dismissive about Parallel of life and he reminds it as: “Pop meets America….little boys things”
47:00 Henri Michaux: Mouvements (1951)

48:00 Eduardo Paolozzi: Figure ca 1940-50

49:00 Jean DUfuffet: Materiologies

50:00 Michel Tapié: un art autre. “the materiality things” (PS)

52:00 Tristan Tzara: poetry is a natural activity of the mind

55:30 Sigurd Lewerentz: Flower Kiosk (1969)
Scritto da / written by / escrito por Michela Bassanelli ed Enrico Forestieri
(1) Image by Peter Smithson: Play Brubeck “Ideogram of net of human relations. P.D.S. A constellation with different values of different parts in an immensely complicated web crossing and recrossing. Brubeck! a pattern can emerge.”
Slides: Irénée Scalbert ©
Ringraziamenti / Agradecimientos / Thanks to: Irénée Scalbert, Gennaro Postiglione, DAStU-Politecnico di Milano


































































































