Wednesday 7 August
7:30pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
Proyecto AMIL is pleased to invite you to The Architect’s Social Task Today, a talk by the Swiss architect Markus Breitschmid.
The architect’s social responsibility is one of the subjects of the 2018-issued manifesto Non-Referential Architecture, developed by the architects Markus Breitschmid and Valerio Olgiati. In the book, the authors argue that in the context of a non-referential world, characterized by the erosion of mass ideologies and common ideals, architecture needs a new path forward beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols, of something outside themselves.
Non-referential architecture claims, precisely, that buildings should not fulfill preconceived definitions or doctrinarian views; and instead proposes that contemporary architects ask themselves basic and consistent questions about how the proper use of form, space, materials and light can affect the human experience. Therefore, according to Breitschmid and Olgiati, the architect’s social task today lies in the artistic-philosophical realm. That is, in designing buildings which expand people’s creative possibilities.
The talk will be in English. Free entrance
Markus Breitschmid (Switzerland, 1966) is a professor of architecture theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). He has published widely on contemporary architecture and philosophical aesthetics and, also, works as visiting critic and lecturer at various universities, museums, and other institutions in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
