Architecture and Revolution? Situating Theory of Architecture on the Left
Schedule
Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 09:30 am
UTC+01:00Location
CAMP Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning Vyšehradská 2075 Prague 2, 128 00 | Prague, PR
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Event in English, in person (+ zoom streaming)Free entry
Since the protest movements of the 1960s, architectural theory has developed in close dialogue with continental philosophy and the social sciences. This workshop explores left-wing streams in architectural thought and asks which texts could help us think about the current crisis in architecture and urban planning. Distinguished architecture historians and theorists such as Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Mark Crinson, Hilde Heynen, Luka Skansi, Andrew Leach, Monika Mitášová, Michael Hauser and Jana Ndiaye Beránková will give talks on Henri Lefebvre, Manfredo Tafuri, Kenneth Frampton and the Frankfurt School.
The event is organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the VIPER gallery, and Suture Press.
To attend the event (either in person or online) and receive the reader for the workshop and the link, please register at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjuD1msG4gR-dqr7iws2l9pnAsp2dYclWJknT3UCb0tr9xSw/viewform?usp=header
https://www.flu.cas.cz/cz/
https://www.vipergallery.org/
https://suturepress.com/
This project is supported by the grant of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Strategie 21: “Resilient Society for the 21st Century.”
The ArchConcepts project (Reg. No. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008600) is co-financed by the European Union under the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme.
PROGRAMME
9:30–10:45
1960s Criticism and the Crisis of the Object
Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
“Structures Don’t Go Down in the Street!” Architectural Discourse and May ’68
Monika Mitášová (Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava)
Between a Moment and a Situation, or the Battle for New Babylon: On Early Discussions on the Nature of the City between Lefebvre, Debord, and Constant
discussion moderator: Michael Hauser
Coffee
11:00–12:15
Tafurian intermezzo (zoom panel)
Luka Skansi (Politecnico di Milano)
Investigating the Causes of a Defeat: Manfredo Tafuri and the Italian Architectural Culture of the 1960s
Andrew Leach (Queensland Institute of Technology)
Architecture and Historiography
discussion moderator: Jana Ndiaye Beránková
Lunch
13:45–15:45
Marxism and the Frankfurt School
Mark Crinson (Birkbeck, University of London)
Struggles in the Concrete
Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven)
The Politics of Design. Revisiting the Frankfurt School Legacy in Architectural Theory
Mary McLeod (Columbia University)
Kenneth Frampton's Idea of the Critical
discussion moderator: Juliana Sokolvá (AVU)
Coffee
16:00–17:20
Overcoming the Present Crisis?
Michael Hauser (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Architecture in Times of Interregnum: Looking for New Visions
Joan Ockman (University of Pennsylvania)
From Political Economy to Political Ecology in Architecture Today
discussion moderator: Lynda Zein (UMPRUM)
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Where is it happening?
CAMP Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning Vyšehradská 2075 Prague 2, 128 00, Vyšehradská 2075/51, 128 00 Praha, Česko, Prague, Czech RepublicEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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