- Culture is Out Business
- The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
in association with the editors of Harvard Design Magazine presents
CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS:
ARCHITECTURE IN THE CURRENT MARKETPLACE
Fall 2001 Lecture Series
How has the triumph of free-market capitalism and its associated phenomena-the increasing privatization of the public realm, the packaging of buildings and cities as tourist destinations, the techniques of branding and media hype, the ubiquity of shopping, the spectacularization of museums, and the commodifying of dissent-transformed the way we make and think about architecture? The title of the series is borrowed from a book by Marshall McLuhan published in 1970, when most of these developments were still in their infancy. Four noontime lectures followed by discussions, plus the keynote Buell Evening Lecture sponsored by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, explore the nexus between culture and business in a contemporary "consumer democracy" and its impact on the conception and practice of architecture today. The series is presented in association with Harvard Design Magazine.
Guest conveners:
Nancy Levinson and William Saunders, co-editors, Harvard Design Magazine
Noontime Series
All lectures 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Room 114, Avery Hall
Friday, October 12
"Businessmen, They Drink My Wine": The New Capitalism from the Sixties to Today
Thomas Frank
Editor, The Baffler
Author, One Market under God (2000); The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism (1997)
Response by Michael Sorkin
Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio, New York
Director, Graduate Program in Urban Design, City College of New York
Author, Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42º North Latitude (1993); Exquisite Corpse (1991); editor, Variations on a Theme Park (1991)
Friday, October 26
Can Architecture Survive Consumer Culture? A Conversation
Kevin Kelley
Principal, Shook Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
James S. Russell
Architect and writer, New York; Editor at Large, Architectural Record
Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Friday, November 9
Full of Shopping: How Consumer Culture is (Always) Taking Over
Rachel Bowlby
Professor of English, University of York
Author, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (2000); Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (1997); Shopping with Freud (1993); Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola (1985)
Response by Chuihua Judy Chung
Co-editor, The Harvard Guide to Shopping (2001)
Principal, Coda Group, New York
Friday, November 16
Museum as Mirror: Installation, Investment, Globalization, Architecture
Mary Anne Staniszewski
Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical Theory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Author, The Power of Display (1998); Believing Is Seeing (1995); The Lens of Culture: Art, Money, Politics, Activism, the Internet and Everyday Life (forthcoming)
Response by Hal Foster
Townsend Martin Professor of Modern Art, Princeton University; co-editor, October
Author, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (1996); Compulsive Beauty (1993); Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (1985)
Buell Evening Lecture sponsored by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
6:30 pm, Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Wednesday, November 14
The Aesthetic of Accident
T. J. Jackson Lears
Professor of History, Rutgers University
Author, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1995); No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 18801920 (1981); co-editor, The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History (1993); The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 18801980 (1983)
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