Lecture: Owen Hatherley

Friday 10:45 (approx) at the Röda Tältet:

Owen Hatherley is an English critic and writer; mostly on urbanism, architecture and politics. Among his books are: "Militant Modernism" 2009 (a return to the true roots of Modernism and 'a defence of Modernism against its defenders') and "A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain" 2010 plus "A New Kind of Bleak", 2012. The two last ones are a collection of articles from Urban Trawl, a regular feature in the British magazine Building Design. Owen also writes for the Guardian and blogs at Sit down, man, you're a bloody tragedy. Some viideos: On Brutalism and Heritage, on New Labour's regeneration legacy, at the Architectural Foundation.

Lecture: Håkan Forsell

Friday at 09:00 Röda Tältet:

Håkan Forsell on Stockholm.
Håkan Forsell is an urban historian and researcher, who is working at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at TU-Berlin and at the University of Stockholm. Much of his interesting work-in-progresss is collected at his blog, Arbetsbok (in Swedish). Earlier this year, in June, his book "Bebodda Platser: studier av vår urbana samtidshistoria" was published. Together with the editor of Arkitektur, Dan Hallemar, Håkan has recently started a podcast: Staden – here.

Lecture: Jennifer Mack

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Jennifer Mack is an American architect and researcher from MIT and Harvard. Her dissertation - "Producing the Public: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the Present"- focused on Södertäljer and more specifically on Syriacs. Above a street view from Lina Hage, the part sometimes referred to as Hollywood.

Lecture: Michelle Provoost

Michelle Provoost is a Dutch architectural historian and a co-founder of Crimson Architectural Historians (above). She is now the director of the International New Town Institute in Almere. Two on-line lectures can be found here: at the Strelka Institute, Moscow and the fourth INTI conference.
Publications from the New Town Institute can be found, here, and more about Crimson, here.

The lecture is held in the Red Tent at 10:00, Thursday the 5th of September.

Lecture: Ola Andersson

Vykort från Utopia on Vimeo.

Tuesday the 3rd of September at 15:00 in Röda Tältet:

Ola Andersson about Stockholm.
He is an architect with a own practice Anderson Arfwedson (until very recently: A1-Arkitekter) and a architectural critic at Dagens Nyheter, previously at Svenska Dagbladet. His first book: Vykort från Utopia (Postcards from Utopia) was published 2012.