Architecture of Restlessness
Dulux Gallery, Glyn Davis Building (MSD), Masson Road, Parkville 3010
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Join us for Architecture of Restlessness, an engaging event hosted by AAVS Melbourne's Project Toria, featuring Chris Pierce, Director of the Architectural Association Visiting School. This event will delve into the dynamic landscape of architecture education, beginning with an insightful session led by Pierce. The evening will culminate in a round table discussion, where experts and attendees will explore the current state of architecture pedagogy and envision the future of architectural education. This is an opportunity to engage with forward-thinking ideas and contribute to the evolving dialogue on how we teach and learn architecture in a rapidly changing world.
About the speakers
Christopher Pierce is an academic leader and administrator, educator, writer, curator, designer and creative advisor specialising in global networks. He lectures internationally on education, research and practice. Christopher completed his architecture studies at Virginia Tech and gained a PhD in architectural history at the University of Edinburgh. He has more than twenty-five years of higher education teaching, management and leadership experience in both the public and private sector. A member of the Architectural Association’s (AA) Senior Management Team he led the AA’s successful application to the UK Privy Council for Taught Degree Awarding Powers. He is also Head of the AA Visiting School and an Experimental Programme Unit Master.
He has published widely on seventeenth– and eighteenth–century engravings (the subject of his PhD) and critiques that cover a disparate range of contemporary architects and buildings. His essays have been published in books and journals worldwide. As a curator, he organised the first exhibition on the Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan and most recently a touring retrospective (and edited monograph) on the Catalan architectural ceramicist Toni Cumella. His creative practice, CaP, presented their collaborative work with Noma (Copenhagen) at WIRED2015 and reached the final two for the design of Noma 2.0. His recent collaboration with Maaemo (Oslo) precipitated publication (with AHO) of Provocations for the Munchmuseet Oslo.
His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century practitioners and places. Current projects in development include an exhibition on the contemporary Chinese architect Liu Jiakun; researching a monograph on the mid twentieth-century British architect Richard Seifert; developing a publication – ‘Recipes for Food and Architecture’ – based on CaP’s recent creative collaborations; and establishing a network of creative producers across the Global South focused on decolonising practice and working at the leading-edge of sustainability and ethics to redefine global approaches to identity, context and place.