Lecture Title

Past Future Possible Worlds: Architecture, Science Fiction, and Television in the 1970s

Speaker

John McMorrough  

Date & Time

Wednesday, Feb 1 at 05:00 pm PT

Venue

Portland / White Stag Block / Event Space

Description

Architecture builds on the past (the processes of its formation) to construct the present. Science Fiction extrapolates the now (the issues of its times) to elaborate the future. In their grainy transmissions, not real but not entirely imaginary, the possible worlds of science fiction architecture on television in the 1970s attempt to leave earth's problems, but ultimately cannot escape the gravity of circumstance –foreshadowing contemporary conundrums regarding technology, environment, and identity.

Bio

John McMorrough is an architect and writer who works on the relationship between design methods and culture, focusing on architecture’s extended field (buildings, but also complementary media such as images, installations, and other structured narratives). As a partner of studioAPT, he designs through situation (comedies) and (mediatic) formats. His writing and design work has appeared in books and publications such as Log, Volume, Praxis, Threshold Perspecta, MAS Context, and Flat Out. He has taught theory and design at the Yale School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ohio State University, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and is now an associate professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

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