No Space No Time

SERIES: Building Telling Architecture
SPEAKER: Massimiliano Fuksas
DATE: Thursday, November 28, 6 p.m.

There are different ways and sensibilities to put together a lecture, or rather, a lecture. In years past, at certain times in my life as an architect, I would establish possible variations and use them for months. In the early 2000s in Tokyo, inspired by a film, I chose the title “Lost in Translation,” which was followed by “Lost 12345” and so on. Years earlier, when I was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, I seem to have used “Landscape no morphology” or “tectonic geography.” It was still the 1990s, I started when I was teaching at the École Spéciale d'Architecture, called by Virilio. With the nullification of the concept of architectural space, today, after the traversal of the virtual and consciously inclined to consider visual perception a convention, I believed that colors and dimensions were representations beyond the real and hypotheses up to the nullification of certainties and that perception was a formula that expressed itself with an uncertain and very often random universe. Lawrence's Chaos Theory appeared, of which there is the algorithm that defines it, we know it...And from this concept we will begin...

Of Lithuanian origin, Massimiliano Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944. He received a degree in Architecture from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1969 and since the 1980s has been among the main protagonists of the contemporary architectural scene. From 1994 to 1997 he is a member of the Urban Planning Commission of Berlin and Salzburg. From 1998 to 2000 he is Director of the “VII International Architecture Exhibition of Venice”: “LessAesthetics, More Ethics.” From 2000 to 2015 Massimiliano Fuksas authored the architecture column, founded by Bruno Zevi, of the Italian weekly “L'Espresso” and from 2014 to 2015, together with Doriana Fuksas, he edited the Design column of the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica.” He has been a visiting professor at various international universities including Columbia University in New York, the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. In his work Massimiliano Fuksas has always devoted special attention to the analysis of urban problems and large metropolitan areas, with an eye always turning to innovation.

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