Sonja Hnilica is an architectural theorist and historian. She currently holds the professorship of Modern Art History at the Institute of European Art History at the University of Heidelberg and…

Pietro Cesari is a member of the LOEWE research cluster „Architectures of Order“. Since January 2020, he has been a PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal…

We commonly and ubiquitously use architectural metaphors in both everyday speech as well as various professional contexts. Yet we rarely, if at all, register this connection when we talk, for…

The lecture will be held in English.

This study re- and deconstructs discourses that understand architecture as writing, and also illuminates the opposite side of this intermedial metaphor, namely the notion of architecture as an image. With…