OPEN Conversation with Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley

Weaving together history, philosophy, technology, and critical theory, the two renowned architectural historians and theorists, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, re-enter the architectural discourse, moving toward a biotic architecture. How can we challenge the conventional distinctions between the natural and the artificial, the human and the non-human, and the designed and the undesigned?Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University, and Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University, New York. The session is titled WE THE BACTERIA, and is moderated by Matīss Groskaufmanis, Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture.Save the date for OPEN26 – SEP 18 Introduction: Lawrence SpragueProduction: Jonas Munk Clausen, Aarhus School of ArchitectureMusic: Sultans of Streams by Jozeque (licensed via artlist.io)See more content from OPEN at https://aarch.dk/open-conversation