Sick Architecture - Mark Wigley in conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch
Apr 27, 2022, 01:58 PM
In this episode CIVA Artistic Director Nikolaus Hirsch talks to Mark Wigley about whiteness as part of our concept of health, our concept of cure and disease. Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP.
Read the Chronic Whiteness essay by Mark Wigley on e-flux Architecture
Architecture and sickness are tightly intertwined. Architectural discourse always weaves itself through theories of body and brain, constructing the architect as a kind of doctor and the client as patient. Architecture has been portrayed as both a form of prevention and cure for thousands of years. With Sick Architecture, CIVA and guest curator Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) highlight a topic that has shaped our lives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Image credits: Hans Hollein, Non-physical environment, 1967 (detail). Private archive Hollein.
Read the Chronic Whiteness essay by Mark Wigley on e-flux Architecture
Architecture and sickness are tightly intertwined. Architectural discourse always weaves itself through theories of body and brain, constructing the architect as a kind of doctor and the client as patient. Architecture has been portrayed as both a form of prevention and cure for thousands of years. With Sick Architecture, CIVA and guest curator Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) highlight a topic that has shaped our lives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More on the exhibition
Image credits: Hans Hollein, Non-physical environment, 1967 (detail). Private archive Hollein.