Culture of Circulation

Ockman, Joan

Title:

Culture of Circulation

dc.contributor.author	Ockman, Joan
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	University of Pennsylvania	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-12T19:40:45Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-12T19:40:45Z
dc.date.issued	2017-03-31
dc.description	Presented on March 31, 2017 at the 2017 Spring Symposium on Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism in the Architecture Library, Architecture West Building, College of Design at Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	Session One	en_US
dc.description	Joan Ockman is Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Visiting Professor at Cooper Union School of Architecture. An architecture educator, historian, writer, and editor, she has edited Architecture Culture 1943-1968, The Pragmatist Imagination, and Out of Ground Zero. She is currently completing a collection of essays titled Architecture Among Other Things, to be published next year by Actar.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 26:29 minutes
dc.description.abstract	Once upon a time, in the days when modern architecture was young, circulation through a building was primarily a functional problem. By the mid-twentieth century, when the monument building morphed into the spectacle-building, the circulation system began to take on aesthetic implications of its own and to become a central feature of a building’s architectural identity. Think of Wright’s Guggenheim Museum or Saarinen’s TWA Terminal. Of course, Baroque architects already appreciated the expressive potential of dynamic scenography four centuries ago. But today the mania for circulation spaces manifest in cutting-edge architecture goes well beyond formal virtuosity. Escalators, ramps, elevators, stairs, bridges, catwalks—these privileged elements of contemporary buildings not only belong to a form-making culture that at all costs (figuratively and literally) wishes to avoid the appearance of fixity, but emanate from the very structure of the neocapitalist imaginary. In this talk we attempt an allegorical reading of architecture’s “culture of circulation.” What are the implications of an architecture that is about circulation?	en_US
dc.format.extent	26:29 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/58088
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism Symposium	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Circulation	en_US
dc.title	Culture of Circulation	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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