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Lecture Series

LOEWE Research Cluster

Architectures of Order. Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge

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“Architectures of Order” is an interdisciplinary research project (2020-2024) of the Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University of Darmstadt, with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum as associated partners. Comprising 26 members, the project is concerned with an investigation of architecture as a cultural practice of ordering, that manifests aesthetically, materially, spatially, discursively as well as epistemologically. ...

Lecture Series

Publication

3rd Volume of the AO publication series

The third volume in the publication series “Architectures of Orders” with an essay by Jasper Ludewig is out now. In his essay Ludewig examines the role of architecture and spatial thinking in enabling the modern Moravians to perform their unique brand of global organizational governance. The series appears within the CCSA Topics series.  

Publication

Metaphorical Practices in Architecture Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture

Metaphorical Practices in Architecture Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to productively challenge and intervene with established perspectives, debates and practices. Mapping […]

Conference

AO Finissage:2.–10. November 2023

AO Finissage:
2.–10. November 2023

At the end of the LOEWE research project, scholars from the fields of architecture, sociology, history and media studies, and legal history will present their research results in the form of a diverse exhibition and event program at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt a. M. (Interim), Henschelstraße 18 in Frankfurt a. M., at the TU Darmstadt, […]

Publication

2nd Volume of the AO publication series

2nd Volume of the AO publication series

The second volume within the AO publication series will be published soon, with an essay penned by Szilvia Gellai. In the text, Gellai explores the glass culture of modernity through the lens of female projects in literature, art, and architecture. The publication series is published within CCSA Topics.