GSA Lecture Series: Nick Axel | 26 August 2025
Schedule
Tue Aug 26 2025 at 05:30 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Graduate School of Architecture, JBS Park, University of Johannesburg, 69 Kingsway Avenue, 2092 Johannesburg, South Africa | Johannesburg, GT
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Architecture Week Lecture: Nick Axel - On e-flux Architecture and Chronograms of ArchitectureDate: Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Time: 17:30 for 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: GSA @JBS Park
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Nick Axel is an architect, editor, educator, and curator deeply engaged in architectural discourse and practice. Since 2016, he has served as Deputy Editor of e-Flux, Inc. Architecture, leading the platform’s growth and producing over 60 editorial projects and publications in collaboration with biennials, museums, universities, and cultural institutions worldwide. Nick is also Head of the Architectural Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he directs a three-year Bachelor’s curriculum that blends architecture, research, theory, and art.
He was Editor of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti. From 2020 to 2022, he curated Architecture and chaired the Architectural Advisory Board at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, organizing competitions and commissioning projects such as the Babyn Yar Synagogue and the Museum of the History of the Tragedy. He has edited numerous books, including most recently Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., Sick Architecture, Chronograms of Architecture, and Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory."
Nick studied architecture and philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later earned a Masters in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he investigated the political and legal dimensions of extractive industries in the U.S. His research continued at Forensic Architecture and DAAR, focusing on human rights and decolonial spatial strategies in Palestine. Alongside his research, Nick has taught architecture, theory, and visual culture and served as Managing Editor at Volume Magazine. There, he honed his editorial skills and began fostering communities of practitioners to advance critical architectural discourse, a pursuit he actively continues at e-flux Architecture and beyond.
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Graduate School of Architecture, JBS Park, University of Johannesburg, 69 Kingsway Avenue, 2092 Johannesburg, South Africa, 69 Kingsway Rd, Johannesburg, 2092, South AfricaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
