2020
The Line Notes on Politics
Biographies
Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli
Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli are architects, educators and curators. They are currently based in Paris where they have founded the practice Microcities and the website and visual atlas Socks-studio. They teach design studios, ateliers and theory courses at the Éav&t, Paris Est. They also taught at the MIARD in Rotterdam and are collaborators at the EPFL in Lausanne. F.Lucarelli was 2017-18 Garofalo fellow at the UIC School of Architecture in Chicago; he was the recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation and was a 2018 fellow at the American Academy in Rome. M.Fabrizi is currently head of the Architectural Visualisation Department at the Éav&t, Paris Est. Fabrizi and Lucarelli have been invited curators at the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. They curated the exhibition “Inner Space” at the Lisbon Triennale 2019 and are currently preparing “Database, Network, Interface, the architecture of information” for the gallery Archizoom at the EPFL in Lausanne. They published the book “Inner Space” in 2019 for the publisher Poligrafa. Their works have been awarded and exhibited widely.
Ethel Baraona Pohl
Ethel Baraona Pohl. Critic, writer and curator. Co-founder of the independent research studio and publishing house dpr-barcelona, which operates in the fields of architecture, political theory and the social milieu. Editor of Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme from 2011-2016, her writing appears in Open Source Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2015), The Form of Form (Lars Muller, 2016), Together! The New Architecture of the Collective (Ruby Press, 2017), Architecture is All Over (Columbia Books of Architecture, 2017), Harvard Design Magazine, ARQ, e-flux, and Volume, among others. Her curatorial practice includes “Adhocracy ATHENS” (together with César Reyes and Pelin Tan for the Onassis Cultural Centre, 2015), winner of the ADI Culture Award 2016; and “Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales” (Matadero Madrid, 2020-21).
Alejandra Celedón
Alejandra Celedon was born in Edmonton, Canada. She is an architect from Universidad de Chile, holds a Master from The Bartlett, and a PhD from the Architectural Association. Director of the Master of Architecture (MARQ) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennial, and co-curator (along with Nicolas Stutzin and Javier Correa) of “The Plot: Miracle and Mirage“ at the Chicago Architecture Biennale 2019. Her latest publications include the books “Stadium: A Building to Render the Image of a City” (Park Books: 2018), co-edited with Stephannie Fell and “Stereography: Tattara & Zenghelis” co-edited with Felipe de Ferrari and Francisco Díaz (Ediciones ARQ, Santiago, 2020). She currently conducts research on educational infrastructure from the scale of the furniture, the classroom, the building to the institutional and political programme.
Hélène Frichot
Hélène Frichot, Architectural theorist and philosopher, writer and critic, is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, and Director of the Bachelor of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Guest Professor, and the former Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. Her recent publications include Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture (AADR 2019), Creative Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture (Bloomsbury 2018), How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (2016). She is editor on a number of publications, including with Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting, Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (Routledge 2017) and more recently with Naomi Stead, Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches (Bloomsbury 2020).
Francisca Gómez
Francisca Gomez was born in Santiago, Chile. She is an architect from Universidad Catolica de Chile, and holds a Master in Architecture from the same University. Her master thesis was developed in the Studio “Las Escuelas” focusing on la Nueva Habana as case study for her project.
David Hutama Setiadi
David Hutama Setiadi is currently at his final year in the PhD program PhD at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom. His research aims to comprehend the nature of architectural practice and education in the Dutch East-Indies which historically influence the current architectural practice and education in Indonesia. He is framing his research on the role of Dutch Engineers and architects, regarding their practices and training in the early part of the 20th century in the Dutch East Indies. He was also co-curator of Pavilion Indonesia at the 14th and the 16th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venice – Italy (2014 & 2018). From 2018-2020 he also registered as an Affiliated Research Fellow at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Léopold Lambert
Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of three books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture:The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2016) and La politique du Bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016). His forthcoming book (2021) is tentatively called States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum.
Marina Lathouri
Marina Lathouri is the director of the Graduate Programme in History and Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association in London and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and has been Guest Professor at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain, the Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile, the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, and the Bartlett School of Architecture. She studied architecture, philosophy of art and aesthetics. Her research interests lie in the conjunction of history and politics of historiography, architecture and writing practices, the city and political philosophy. She co-authored Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (Routledge 2008), directed the AA research project City Cultures: Contemporary Positions on the City (AA Publications 2010) and has contributed to numerous publications. Her teachings and writings align histories of architecture and the city with contemporary theoretical arguments and questions of the social as well as textual, visual and design practices.
Markus Lähteenmäki
Markus Lähteenmäki is a historian and curator of art and architecture, currently a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. He has curated several critically acclaimed exhibitions, most recently Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Märkli Presented by Alexander Brodsky at gta Exhibitions (2019) and taught regularly at the London Metropolitan University (2014-2016) and lectured and lead seminars at various universities, including the Royal College of Arts, London, Central Saint Martins, London and ETH Zurich. His writing has been published in The Burlington Magazine, The Architectural Review and Harvard Design Magazine and his curatorial work has been featured in The Financial Times, Art Forum and London Review of Books. He lives and works in Helsinki, where he is a co-organizer of the New Academy (www.newacademy.fi).
William Orr
Will Orr is a British-Canadian theorist and historian based in London. In 2019, he completed a PhD at the AA, where he teaches in the history and theory programme. Using an historical materialist framework, his research examines the interplay between political and architectural theory from the 1960s to the present.
Elena Palacios Carral
Elena Palacios Carral (AAHCT 2015, AADipl 2012) is a PhD Candidate at the Architectural Association and a founding director of Forms of Living, a design and research platform. Palacios Carral has worked as an architectural designer in Mexico City and the UK, and as a researcher at Forensic Architecture. She teaches design studios at Oxford Brookes and Kingston University, and is a lecturer in history and theory at the Royal College of Arts.
Alessandra Ponte
Alessandra Ponte is Full professor at the École d’architecture, Université de Montréal. Since 2008, she has been responsible for the Phyllis Lambert International Seminar, a series of colloquia held at the Université de Montréal. Curator of the exhibition Total Environment: Montreal 1965-1975 (Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2009), she also collaborated to the exhibition and catalogue God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble (with Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver, London: Architectural Association Publications, 2011), and contributed to the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architecture in 2014 (Arctic Adaptations) and 2016 (Extraction). Among her recent publications: The House of Light and Entropy (London: AA Publications, 2014), Architecture et Information 2.0//2017, Architecture et Information 2.0//2018 and Architecture et Information 2.0// 2020 (École d’architecture, Université de Montréal, 2017, 2018, 2020).
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: born in West Germany, raised in waters of Southwest Florida, lives in arid American Southwest. An architect, educator, and director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, Taylor is deeply committed to the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of the planet. The Terminal Lake Exploration Platform, created with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, continues to facilitate visual and performative research within under-examined basins and internal aquatic fringes. Taylor studied architecture at the University of Florida and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Chiara Toscani
Chiara Toscani graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture and Society, Campus Leonardo, in 2002. In 2008, she obtained a Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design, cum laude at Politecnico di Milano. Between 2010 and 2012, she was a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano within the research program “Urban and architectural strategies in the contemporary contexts. Theories, methods, and tools”. From 2009 to 2018, she was an adjunct professor at Politecnico di Milano, teaching morphology and building typologies, and Architectural design studio 1 and 3. She is the author of many essays and books alongside curating several exhibitions and workshops. From 2006 to 2018, she has been working for Cino Zucchi Architetti as a senior architect.
Alvaro Velasco Perez
Alvaro Velasco Perez is lecturer at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. He is tutor at the Writing Centre and studio tutor at the Architectural Association, London. He is PhD by the same institution where he previously studied a masters on History and Critical Thinking in Architecture. In 2012, he obtained his degree on Architecture by the University of Navarra, Spain. He has collaborated in teaching positions at the AA, UHerts, AA Summer School and University of Navarra, as well as participated in crits throughout the schools. Alvaro has practiced in offices in London, Nigeria, Spain and New York.
Thanos Zartaloudis
Thanos Zartaloudis teaches and researches at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK and is an associate and PhD supervisor at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, UK where he taught the course Commanding Architecture? for a number of years. At Kent he co-directs the Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies and teaches the course Law, Space and Power. His most recent monograph is The Birth of Nomos (EUP, 2019). With Aristide Antonas he has coauthored the Athens Protocols in Antonas, A. and Zartaloudis, T.. The Protocols of Athens, in Antonas, A. The Archipelago of Protocols, Barcelona: DPR Barcelona, 2016, pp. 11–207.