Work category » Conferences and presentations
Engineering Beaubourg’s information spaces
Conference paper (SAH Annual Meeting, 2008)
From the outset, the Centre Pompidou was to be a live center of information. This paper situated the challenges posed by that vision in the context of emerging models of technical expertise in architecture.
Belongs to category Conferences and presentations, Historical research, Project archive
Themes: Centre Pompidou
The mediated spaces of the archaeological park
Conference paper (National Committee for the History of Art conference, Getty Villa, Los Angeles, 2006)
This paper considered the history of the archaeological park (the passeggiata archeologica) in Rome as a result not only of changes to the practices of curatorship, archaeology, and preservation, but also of the emergence of a modern information society.
Belongs to category Conferences and presentations, Historical research, Project archive
Themes: archaeological parks, landscape, memory environments, open-air museums, preservation/reuse/intervention, Rome
Fieldworks: Art-Geography
Symposium (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2005)
I was a co-organizer of this symposium, which brought together practitioners from art, architecture, and geography to examine how emerging relations between geographical science and artistic production are transforming the meaning of information gathered in the “field”. The original symposium web site is here.
Belongs to category Conferences and presentations, Project archive
Themes: contemporary art, landscape
Architecture’s Media, Messages, and Modes
Architectural history and theory exhibition (Main Gallery, UCLA Department of Architecture, 2004)
I was a co-curator of this exhibition (and co-organizer of the accompanying conference) that examined alternatives to the written text as the dominant mode of scholarly communication in architectural research.
Belongs to category Conferences and presentations, Display and exhibition, Project archive