On Publishing Architecture
The first event of 2021 looks at the production of architecture through printed publications. Architecture is here considered as a strategic thinking, a critical understanding of diverse and contradictory conditions, synthesized in different formats, including written research, the production of theory and discourses. Our guests are Dr. Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, founder of the publishing platform Black Square and editor of AA Files -the in-house journal of the Architectural Association- and Spanish architect Moises Puente, founder of Puente Editores and editor of 2G Magazine since 1998. Both guests will introduce their editorial projects –including the collaboration with a vast constellation of authors- while also giving a critical reading of the current production of architecture.
After the guests presentations, the conference will continue with a talk moderated by the curators of Common Field - Diana Menino and Felipe De Ferrari - in which we invite those who attend to participate and ask questions. The lecture will be held in English and exclusively online in live streaming format.
Biographies
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
Dr. Maria Shérazade Giudici completed a PhD at Delft University in 2014; her thesis ‘The Street as a Project: The Space of the City and the Construction of the Modern Subject’ is a critique of the contemporary idea of public space and an attempt to rethink the ‘void between the buildings’ as the object of political and architectural intentions. In 2011 Maria joined Pier Vittorio Aureli as Studio Master of Diploma Unit 14 at the Architectural Association. Maria is also the founder of publishing and educational platform Black Square and editor of AA Files since 2019. Moisés Puente
Moisés Puente is a Spanish architect, editor and curator. He worked as editor at the Gustavo Gili publishing house between 1998 and 2020, in particular as editor of the 2G magazine, which he now directs for the German publisher Walther König. In 2016 he founded the independent publishing house Puente editores, specialised in contemporary art and architecture essays. In 2010 he received the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism. In his most recent book "Cháchara and other stories of architecture" (2020, Caniche) he opens up ways of discussion based on the analysis of consecrated architects and contextualising new values of contemporary architecture, along with launching an acute critique on the devoid discourse criticism prevailing in the current scene.
About Common Field
This lecture series takes architecture as a strategic attitude to space and resources. By adopting a critical and optimistic attitude, it can take on reality in radical ways, unveiling contradictions and potential, and developing projects that enable emancipatory ideas, thus building a common field. Such an approach can be conceived as a cumulative process of constant appropriation, imitation, repetition, translation, and re-contextualisation with open-minded thinking - embracing pragmatism and humour - based on the careful review of material reality and social conditions. Exploring these threads will lead us towards a collective form of construction.
Curated by Diana Menino and Felipe De Ferrari.