SUMMER INSTITUTE IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

The 1996 Summer Institute in Architectural Theory at Iowa State University will convene from July 15 to July 19. This year the institute will be directed toward teachers, advanced students, and practitioners interested in examining the relationship between theoretical concerns and the production of architecture. There is considerable controversy regarding the relevance of these current developments in critical theory to today's design practice. The Summer Institute will provide an opportunity to learn about and engage with these theoretical developments in a series of intensive seminars. The Institute faculty members this year are: Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, Greg Lynn, Mark Rakatansky, and Robert Segrest.

Since its inception six years ago, faculty, professionals, and students from across the country and around the world (Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington DC; Australia, Norway, Spain, and Yugoslavia) have attended the Institute.

The topics to be examined this summer include:

• The architectural engagement of everyday social and psychological events;
• Building codes: the internal logics of architecture;
• The matter of matter;
• The inscription of the body in space;
• Creating flexible spatial organizations through anexact yet rigorous geometries;
• Spatial temptations, distractions, and confusions: mimicries, utopias, surfaces, insides and outsides.
• Developing intricate relations between the room, the building, the site, and the city;
• Designing complex urban fabrics that critically reconfigure existing contexts;
• The spatial constructs of urban marginalia;
• Developing spatial networks of specific local connections;
• Nostalgia, gravity, and the domestic;
• Possibilities for a critical architectural practice within and between disciplines.

The deadline for applications, credentials, and fees is June 21, 1995.

For more information contact:

Mark Rakatansky, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011.
Tel: 515/294-7132; fax: 515/294-1440; e-mail: mrakatan@iastate.edu

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