The architecture of the space around us has a considerable influence on our everyday lives. However, the resulting layout is rarely accidental and unintentional. Architects who design government and administrative buildings, urban spaces, libraries or other built structures have always been guided by the aesthetic as well as functional requirements and needs that are placed on the buildings and architectures they design. The result is architecturally manifested space that intends to reflect and constitute political-social orders and ideals or designed with regard to specific forms of exercising and securing power.
The lecture series “Gebaute Ordnung” (Built Order) will investigate spaces of power during the 2021 summer semester. In particular, the speakers will explore how aspects of the architectural and spatial perceptibly interlock with political and social orders. Four evening lectures will touch on the topics of architectures of integration, exclusion and annihilation, representation and legitimation, and the securing of power
Registration by mail to glunz@em.uni-frankfurt.de
19.05.2021
SEBASTIANO FABBRINI
»The Architecture of European Integration«
02.06.2021
ANNIKA WIENERT
»Zwischen Allmacht und Ohnmacht. Die gebaute Ordnung der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungslager«
23.06.2021
BRIGITTE SÖLCH
»Emotion – Ordnung – Konflikt. Theorien und Praktiken juridischer Zentrumsbildung in Italien«
07.07.2021
RANDOLPH HEAD
»Archived Landscapes and Archival Landscapes: Architectures of Political Record-Keeping in Early Modern Western Europe, 1450–1700«
