We are looking for additional papers for a session -- titled CONSTRUCTED SPACE:
ARCHITECTURE AND SPECTACLE -- for the Seventh Annual Conference of
The Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne
pour l'étude des idées européenes to be held in conjunction with the
LearnedSocieties, at The Memorial University of Newfoundland,
St. John's, Newfoundland, 4-5 June 1997.
The abstracts already received include:
Meta-Advertising: The Architecture of Chiat Day Kenneth Hayes
In the context of a general examination
of Chiat Day's corporate patronage, this paper will focus on the design
and reception of the agency's Toronto offices by Frank Gehry, completed in
1989. It will show how the architect's auto-biographical indulgences
conspire with a corporate mythography to advance an image of marginality.
Further examination of Chiat Day's New York offices will consider the
architectural image of the down-sized mega-corporation in an era of
hyper-mediated space.
Rockspace Marie-Paule Macdonald
In the mass culture context, rock music merged into mainstream culture
unaccompanied by any specific architecture or building type. The architectural
proposition called 'Rockspace' addresses the formal issues of a building
specifically
designed for a rock subculture. The project proposes an utopian club scaled
to a
rock music listening and performing community.
Please send abstracts by February 14 to:
Rafael Gómez-Moriana
1865 Haro Street, Apt. 101,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6G 1H3;
tel. (604) 688-4336, fax (604) 688-4355;
e-mail: rafgomez@xxxxxxxxxxx
The original call for papers:
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne
pour l'étude des idées européenes invites papers to be presented at its
Seventh Annual Conference, to be held in conjunction with the Learned
Societies, at The Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's,
Newfoundland, 4-5 June 1997.
This session should be of particular interest to practitioners,
theoreticians, educators, students, historians and writers of architecture:
CONSTRUCTED SPACE: ARCHITECTURE AND SPECTACLE
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among
people, mediated by images." (Guy Debord)
As a retinal artform whose object is also itself often an instrument for
viewing, architecture can be seen to both constitute as well as
institutionalise 'spectacle.' Certain buildings, cities and landscapes are
often popularly constructed as spectacular, but in addition, architectural
discourse and criticism tends to revolve around extraordinary and unusual
examples of architecture rather than typical, everyday buildings. The
proliferation of images of architecture on the internet and on CD ROM, as
well as the recent patronage of 'designer' architecture by the Disney
Corporation, attests to a shift toward architecture as a form of
entertainment. Walter Benjamin wrote in 1936 that architecture is
"consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction." We might,
however, ask today: has architecture become a source of distraction? Papers
on reception theories of space, institutional critiques of architecture,
and analyses of historical examples are welcome. Please send an abstract by
February 1, and the completed paper (up to twelve pages long or 20
minutes reading time, double spaced) by April 1st, 1997, to:
Rafael Gómez-Moriana
1865 Haro Street, Apt. 101,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6G 1H3;
tel. (604) 688-4336, fax (604) 688-4355;
e-mail: rafgomez@xxxxxxxxxxx
ARCHITECTURE AND SPECTACLE -- for the Seventh Annual Conference of
The Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne
pour l'étude des idées européenes to be held in conjunction with the
LearnedSocieties, at The Memorial University of Newfoundland,
St. John's, Newfoundland, 4-5 June 1997.
The abstracts already received include:
Meta-Advertising: The Architecture of Chiat Day Kenneth Hayes
In the context of a general examination
of Chiat Day's corporate patronage, this paper will focus on the design
and reception of the agency's Toronto offices by Frank Gehry, completed in
1989. It will show how the architect's auto-biographical indulgences
conspire with a corporate mythography to advance an image of marginality.
Further examination of Chiat Day's New York offices will consider the
architectural image of the down-sized mega-corporation in an era of
hyper-mediated space.
Rockspace Marie-Paule Macdonald
In the mass culture context, rock music merged into mainstream culture
unaccompanied by any specific architecture or building type. The architectural
proposition called 'Rockspace' addresses the formal issues of a building
specifically
designed for a rock subculture. The project proposes an utopian club scaled
to a
rock music listening and performing community.
Please send abstracts by February 14 to:
Rafael Gómez-Moriana
1865 Haro Street, Apt. 101,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6G 1H3;
tel. (604) 688-4336, fax (604) 688-4355;
e-mail: rafgomez@xxxxxxxxxxx
The original call for papers:
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne
pour l'étude des idées européenes invites papers to be presented at its
Seventh Annual Conference, to be held in conjunction with the Learned
Societies, at The Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's,
Newfoundland, 4-5 June 1997.
This session should be of particular interest to practitioners,
theoreticians, educators, students, historians and writers of architecture:
CONSTRUCTED SPACE: ARCHITECTURE AND SPECTACLE
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among
people, mediated by images." (Guy Debord)
As a retinal artform whose object is also itself often an instrument for
viewing, architecture can be seen to both constitute as well as
institutionalise 'spectacle.' Certain buildings, cities and landscapes are
often popularly constructed as spectacular, but in addition, architectural
discourse and criticism tends to revolve around extraordinary and unusual
examples of architecture rather than typical, everyday buildings. The
proliferation of images of architecture on the internet and on CD ROM, as
well as the recent patronage of 'designer' architecture by the Disney
Corporation, attests to a shift toward architecture as a form of
entertainment. Walter Benjamin wrote in 1936 that architecture is
"consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction." We might,
however, ask today: has architecture become a source of distraction? Papers
on reception theories of space, institutional critiques of architecture,
and analyses of historical examples are welcome. Please send an abstract by
February 1, and the completed paper (up to twelve pages long or 20
minutes reading time, double spaced) by April 1st, 1997, to:
Rafael Gómez-Moriana
1865 Haro Street, Apt. 101,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6G 1H3;
tel. (604) 688-4336, fax (604) 688-4355;
e-mail: rafgomez@xxxxxxxxxxx