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Call for Applications: Two Doctoral Positions in the History of Architecture, Information, and the Environment

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Chilehaus Atacama/Hamburgo at Centro Cultural La Moneda

HITAM exhibition in Santiago de Chile, now open, 27.09.2024-26.01.2025

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Radio-Activities: Book Launch at Domushaus EG, Basel

Alfredo Thiermann in Conversation with Charlotte Truwant, Christoph Gantenbein, and Chrissie Muhr, Nov 27, 2024

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Radio-Activities at TUM’s Für den guten Ton

Alfredo Thiermann at symposium on the history of the studio, Munich, Nov 21, 2024

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Radio-Activities: Book presentation at the Royal College of Art, London

Alfredo Thiermann at RCA’s Sonic Architectures research programme, Nov 14, 2024

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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

Alfredo Thiermann launches book with MIT Press on June 25, 2024

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14.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at RCA’s Sonic Architectures research programmeBook PresentationRoyal College of Art, London
06.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Neighbours Vol. 4Book PresentationEPFL
22.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at e-flux Architecture LecturesBook Presentatione-flux, New York
18.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at the Daniels Faculty’s Public ProgramBook PresentationUniversity of Toronto
15.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities: on Architecture, Media, and the Production of Space at YaleIn conversation with Francesco Casetti and Gary TomlinsonYale University
11.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannUnder the Influence 007In conversation with Mark Lee for L.A. Forum 2024 UTIKelton Apartments, Los Angeles
10.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at UCLA AUDBook PresentationUniversity of California
01.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Princeton Graduate Program Media + ModernityBook PresentationPrinceton University
26.09.2024HITAMChilehaus Atacama / HamburgoExhibition OpeningCentro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago de Chile
25.09.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Católica de ChileBook PresentationPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
30.08.2024Alfredo Thiermann
Architecture and RemembranceTalk and Discussion as part of the exhibition “Weißes Wüstengold”,MARKK, Hamburg
19.07-16.08.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities Exhibition at BDA Baden-Württemberg WechselraumExhibitionBDA Baden-Württemberg Wechselraum, Stuttgart
07-13.07.2024Alfredo ThiermannAula Bunker. Architecture, Justice and Media in 1980s PalermoSummer School in collaboration with the Istituto SvizzeroPalermo, Italy
12.06.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War BerlinBook LaunchCollegium Helveticum, Zurich
19.05.2024Alfredo Thiermann1990 (2024)Performative Listening Session at “Echoes of the Brother Country”Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
16.05.2024Xavier NuenoMarket / PlanningHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
08.05.2024Anna-Maria Meister (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute, KIT and saai archive Karlsruhe)Fragile Objects, Coded KnowledgeNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
07.05.2024Maria StavrinakiEndingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
03.05.2024Alfredo ThiermannAt the Scale of the RadioBerlage Sessions “In and Out of Scale”The Berlage
02.05.2024Xavier NuenoLibrary / InformationHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
01.05.2024Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)Pre/ArchitectureNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
30.04.2024Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)AdorningHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
25.04.2024Alfredo ThiermannBroadcasting House / EntertainmentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
24.04.2024Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid)Against the Commons: Elements for a Radical Planning TheoryNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
18.04.2024Enrique Walker (USI)Museum / InternationalismHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
18.04.2024Pedro Correa FernándezKnots and Wires. Contested Communications in Wallmapu, 1870-1883PS02 Transnational Mobility, Space, and Place-making in the Global SouthSAH 77th Annual International Conference, Albuquerque
16.04.2024Gary Tomlinson (Yale University)CommunicatingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
11.04.2024Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto)Factory / LabourHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
10.04.2024Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto)Industrial Architecture, Situated in the Twentieth CenturyNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
09.04.2024Bisserka Gaydarska (Durham University)/Forensic ArchitectureUrbanisingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
28.03.2024Xavier NuenoLaboratory / ResearchHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
27.03.2024Sarah Gainsforth (Journalist)Challenging the New Housing QuestionNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
26.03.2024Steven Mithen (University of Reading)FeedingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
21.03.2024Pedro Correa FernándezSchool / ExperimentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
20.03.2024Tatiana Efrussi (L’atelier des artistes en exil)Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From Utopian “Home” to National MemorialNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
19.03.2024Sabine HylandRulingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
13.03.2024Alfredo ThiermannHouse / DomesticityHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
13.03.2024Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL)Architecture and Abstraction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols, Christophe van Gerrewey, Anna-Maria Meister, and Alfredo Thiermann
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12.03.2024Linda Manzanilla (Colegio Nacional de México)CoexistingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
07.03.2024Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
05.03.2024Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL)DwellingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
29.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
27.02.2024Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)DomesticatingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
22.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannIntroduction: On Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
20.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannBeginningHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
15.02.2024Pedro Correa FernándezDemarcating Land, Dividing Knowledge. Chile, 1830-1850Histories of Architecture, Land, and Labor. Technologies and Utopias of Building Work (Course by María González Pendás)Cornell University
6–11.01.2024Alfredo ThiermannBienal de Arquitectura Rural – Rutas CaravanerasParticipation in the 1st Rural Biennial of ChileTarapacá, Chile
06.12.2023Davide Spina (ETH Zurich)The Politics of the ScreenNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
29.11.2023Olivia Neves Marra (Bartlett)Gardening is Building: Towards an Alternative Design Methodology with Allotment GardensNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
27.11.2023Alfredo ThiermannNotes on Los AngelesInvited lecture at international symposium Translational Histories of Architecture honoring Jean-Louis CohenUniversity College in London
15.11.2023S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University)“My Cell Mate is Full of Compassion”: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
14.11.2023Mari Lending (OCCAS)Provenance Projected: Before the FactNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
21.10.2023Alfredo ThiermannBerlin – Chile. Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of TotalitarianismInternational Conference Listening to the World – 100 Years of RadioHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
28.09.2023Pedro Correa FernándezRegimes of Making. Arts and Industries at the Margins, 1830-1860Fall Graduate Fellows Buell WorkshopColumbia University
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22.11.2023		Noha MokhtarVideo WorkshopEnoncé Théoretique de MasterEPFL
28.09.2023Pedro Correa FernándezResponse to Ultan Byrne. State in Formation: The Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-1939Fall Graduate Fellows Buell WorkshopColumbia University
27.09.2023Daniel Barber (UT Sydney)Architecture and the Arts of SufficiencyNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
13.06.2023Alfredo ThiermannInhabiting Technical MediaInaugural LectureEPFL
24.05.2023Ioanna Piniara (Architectural Association)The Housing Question is a Feminist Question: Housing Commons for the “New Woman” of the German WerkbundNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
17.05.2023Fredie Floré (KU Leuven)Furniture, Architecture and Politics: The History of Knoll InternationalNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
11.05.2023Xavier NuenoMarket / MarketHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
04.05.2023Xavier NuenoLaboratory / ResearchHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
03.05.2023Fernanda Canales (Harvard GSD)Public DomesticitiesNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
27.04.2023Pedro Correa FernándezSkyscraper / ManagementHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
26.04.2023Kim Förster (University of Manchester)Commodity Cement: A Global HistoryNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
20.04.2023Alfredo ThiermannBroadcasting House / EntertainmentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
06.04.2023Lea Catherine SzackaMuseum / InternationalismHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
05.04.2023Alfredo ThiermannThe Broadcasting House: Architecture, Type, and the Culture Industry Symposium The Fifth Typology, organized by TPODEPFL
30.03.2023Michael Osman (UCLA)Factory / LabourHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
29.03.2023Michael Osman (UCLA)Contractor as Capitalist: Building the Erie CanalNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
27.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannType and HistorySymposium Tackle the Type: Filling Stations, organized by EASTEPFL
23.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannHouse / DomesticityHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
16.03.2023Alla Vronskaya (University of Kassel)School / ExperimentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
15.03.2023Alla Vronskaya (University of Kassel)Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human SciencesNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
09.03.2023Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
02.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
23.02.2023Alfredo ThiermannIntroduction: On Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
22.02.2023Florentina Holzinger and Beatrice CorduaFlorentina Holzinger and Beatrice Cordua in Conversation Nonprofessionals Vol. 1EPFL