View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952

A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com

The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.

Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building

Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology

“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari

1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2

Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit

Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts

Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts

Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam

Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture

9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

SYMPOSIUM

Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven

Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1

Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen

5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University

Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen

Director of International Development, AREP, Paris

101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army

Former City Architect, Rotterdam

Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam

3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3

Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs

Laurens Tait

Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft

Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich

Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson

Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud

Mark Pimlott

CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES

PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tutor, Architectural Association, London

Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments

Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?

Welcome: Michiel Riedijk

Opening remarks: Filip Geerts

Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

9:00 am

Friday, May 23

Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Moderator: Han Meyer

Moderator: Rene van der Velde

Moderator: Jan Rot

Negar Sanaan Bensi

Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck

9:15 am

Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp

Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel

Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts

View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952

A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com

The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.

Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building

Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology

“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari

1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2

Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit

Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts

Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts

Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam

Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture

9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

SYMPOSIUM

Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven

Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1

Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen

5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University

Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen

Director of International Development, AREP, Paris

101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army

Former City Architect, Rotterdam

Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam

3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3

Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs

Laurens Tait

Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft

Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich

Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson

Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud

Mark Pimlott

CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES

PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tutor, Architectural Association, London

Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments

Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?

Welcome: Michiel Riedijk

Opening remarks: Filip Geerts

Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

9:00 am

Friday, May 23

Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Moderator: Han Meyer

Moderator: Rene van der Velde

Moderator: Jan Rot

Negar Sanaan Bensi

Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck

9:15 am

Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp

Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel

Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts

View of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway under construction, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, 1952

A precise calibration of the specificities, idiosyncrasies, and possibilities of the thing of infrastructure, rather than a focus on the large-scale planning desires attached to networks and flows, could be the specifically architectural contribution to a dialogue between disciplines on the matter. A practice that blends, frames, and interacts with landscape and, simultaneously, a practice that assembles parts that construct and deconstruct the city-as-machine are the extremes of the infrastructure spectrum set as the symposium’s starting point. Both the Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium explore how an integrated design approach benefits from a dialogue between practice and reflection, between history and future concerns, in order to increase the awareness of the unique challenges of infrastructure and the role of design in general. http:// infra structure things . wordpress . com

The Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium propose a spectrum to discuss infrastructure, focusing on the very “thingness” of infrastructure and attempting to lay the groundwork for its inclusion as a relevant design inquiry, a valid research problem, and an engaging didactic theme within the culture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft. Infrastructure’s role in architecture culture, from the periphery of it and sometimes at its very center (Infrastructure Things); its relevance for the understanding and design ofhidden, residual public spaces (Public Building); its resonance with a large-scale design project also referred to as landscape (Correcting Landscape); and its role as a source of learning for design in general (Material, Elements, and Instruments) are the consecutive rubrics dealt with by speakers taking part in the capita selecta lecture series.

Symposium co-organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building; and The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban DesignCapita Selecta Lecture Series organized by the Department of Architecture, Chair of Public Building

Infrastructure Things Capita Selecta Lecture Series and Symposium Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology

“[The city has always been impacted by] two contradictory desires— the-city-as-womb and the-city-as-machine (to defeat this contradiction is bad utopia, it needs to be given form).” —Massimo Cacciari

1:00 pm–3:00 pm Session 2

Grounding Infrastructure: Landscapes in Transit

Matthijs BouwWim Nijenhuis Filip Geerts

Associate Professor,Theory in the Arts, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts

Principal, One Architecture, Amsterdam

Tuesday, April 29 Infrastructure ThingsFilip GeertsLuc Deleu

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

6:00 pm Orange Room Keynote Lecture

9:00 am–6:00 pm Orange Room Symposium

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

6:00 pm Room B

SYMPOSIUM

Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Professor of Urbanism, KU Leuven

Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

10:00 am–12:00 pm Session 1

Systems Urbanism:Assessing InfrastructureAntoine Picon Marcel Smets Jean-Louis Cohen

5:45 pm Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts,New York University

Final remarks: Jean-Louis Cohen

Director of International Development, AREP, Paris

101 Engineer Battalion, Royal Netherlands Army

Former City Architect, Rotterdam

Civil Engineer and Associate, Arup, Amsterdam

3:15 pm–5:45 pm Session 3

Assembling Infrastructure: The Machine in the City Andreas Heym Rick KrosenbrinkMaarten Struijs

Laurens Tait

Professor of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft

Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich

Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Tuesday, May 13 Correcting LandscapeChristophe GirotGuy Nordenson

Founding Member and Director, AWP, Paris

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tuesday, May 6 Public BuildingMatthias Armengaud

Mark Pimlott

CAPITA SELECTA LECTURE SERIES

PhD Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Tutor, Architectural Association, London

Tuesday, May 20 Material, Elements, and Instruments

Thursday, May 22Underground Past and Future: Worm's Wisdom or Ostrich's Syndrome?

Welcome: Michiel Riedijk

Opening remarks: Filip Geerts

Professor of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

9:00 am

Friday, May 23

Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Moderator: Han Meyer

Moderator: Rene van der Velde

Moderator: Jan Rot

Negar Sanaan Bensi

Maria S. Giudici Florian Hertweck

9:15 am

Principal, T.O.P. Office, Antwerp

Jacques Gubler Architectural Historian, Basel

Symposium co-convened by Jean-Louis Cohen and Filip Geerts