Re-writing the History of the Recent Present: Parametrics before Parametrics 3/3

Re-writing the History of the Recent Present: The New Brutalism to the New Parametricism

Dozens of contemporary historians and PhD students have re-researched the interpretations of the post-World War II years  – from Pevsner, to Banham, to Jencks, to Frampton – and they have explicitly or implicitly revised these earlier interpretations. How do we write a new history of the recent present?"

This series of three open lunchtime lectures is delivered by Anthony Vidler and hosted by the AA PhD Programme.

Seminar Three: Parametrics before Parametrics

At 3pm a seminar for PhD students only will follow
Cities of Tomorrow: Technological Form from Xenakis to Schöffer
Readings: Anthony Vidler, “Cities of Tomorrow: Technology, Ecology and Architecture,” Artforum (September 2012)