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Hubert Damisch: Effacer l'architecture?Mellon Lecture

8 May 2003

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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines the Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects

Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity andevanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examinesthe desire to join two materials as antagonistic as steel and mist in one construction, as well as the way to create a structure ofclouds.

Hubert Damisch is Professor Emeritus of the History and Theory of Art at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales inParis. He has published articles on Mondrian, Pollock, Gropius, Dubuffet, Viollet-Le-Duc, Giotto, Cézanne, and Duchamp,among others. His publications include Théorie du nuage: Pour une histoire de la peinture  (1972), L’Origine de la perspective (1987), Le jugement de Paris  (1992), and Traité du trait  (1995), as well as several volumes of collected essays.

The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research inarchitectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, distinguished scholars ofinternational repute are appointed Mellon Senior Fellows during residencies of one to eight months at the Study Centre. As partof their residency, Mellon Senior Fellows deliver a public lecture at the CCA.

Presented in French.

Event information:8 May 2003Paul Desmarais Theatre