The Berlage Institute
PhD Program “The City as a project”

Friday 25th November

The Politics of Urban Form
PhD in Progress Presentations

Respondents:
Tahl Kaminer, TU Delft
Marina Lathouri, Architectural Association, London
Lara Schrijver TU Delft
Thomas Weaver, Architectural Association, London

10.00 Introduction and Welcome by Vedran Mimica
10.15 Introduction by Pier Vittorio Aureli

10.30
Amir Djalali
Becoming Metropolis: Aloïs Riegl’s Kunstwollen and the Politics of the Groszstadt
Response: Lara Schirver, Tahl Kaminer, Marina Lathouri

11.30
Francesco Marullo
Homeostatic Bureaucracy: A Genealogy of the Bürolandschaft
Response: Tahl Kaminer, Thomas Weaver, Lara Schrijver

12.30 Break

13.30
Platon Issaias
The Absence of Plan as a Project
Response: Tahl Kaminer, Marina Lathouri

14.30
Maria S. Giudici
Spectacle vs. Pedagogy: From Hausmann’s Boulevard to Cerda’s Urbe
Response: Thomas Weaver, Tahl Kaminer

15.30
Hamed Khosravi
Spaces of Sovereignty: The Exceptional Geography of the State and the Dissolution of Paradise
Response: Thomas Weaver, Marina Lathouri

16.30
Bernardina Borra
On Co-Operation: Towards a Collectively Based Subjectivity
Response: Tahl Kaminer, Marina Lathouri

18.00 Concluding remarks and Drinks

19.00 Dinner