Summer Semester 2024
Wednesdays, 12h-14h (CET Time Zone)
• Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt
DAM Archives
Seminar
Jean Prouvé in the DAM Archives: Design for the Masses
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
This course works at the intersection between postwar architecture, archival records and the institutional history of the DAM.
It uses the papers by French designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), Greek-French architect George Candilis (1913-1995) and German architect Diwi Dreysse (1937), which are preserved in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) as a point of departure for discussions. This research seminar is the result of a cooperation in the DAM.
Program
24.04.24 – Introduction
08.05.24 – Prouvé and the post-war reconstruction in France
15.05.24 – Re-positioning modern architecture historiography
22.05.24 – Technology a Fetish
29.05.24 – A Proposition to visit to Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein
05.06.24 – Session in the DAM. A tour to the archives and a conversation with Wolfgang Welker, Anne Scheinhardt, Paula Argomedo Ruiz de Velasco and Marie-Sophie Henke
12.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives
19.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives
26.06.24 – Session in the DAM. Encountering Prouvé-Candilist-Dreysse’s Files in the DAM archives
03.07.24 – Session in the DAM. A conversation with Oliver Elser and Birte Lebzien on Heinirch Klotz and the institutional history of the DAM
10.07.24 – Conclusion
Image: Sketches a resort village project using pre-fabricated elements, circa 1970s, Prouvé-Candilis-Dreysse Papers, DAM Archives, Frankfurt.
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