Wednesday, 11/27/2019
EAUM
EAUM welcomes, on November 27 at
14h30, Joan Ockman delivering the lecture #86 entitled “Man in the
Middle: Ernesto Rogers in Context”
More than any other architect of the
twentieth century, Ernesto Nathan Rogers's place in history was understood in
generational terms. Born in 1909 in Trieste, Rogers graduated intellectually
and architecturally in the 1930s under the fascist Mussolini regime. He reached
the peak of his career as an architect, editor and central character at the
CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) in the 1950s - the
decade of the “miracle” in which Italy underwent major economic and political
changes. He died in 1969 at the age of sixty. His life, beyond crossing the
World War II, overlapped exactly two generations, according to the conventional
thirties. This lecture shows Rogers’ opinions in medias res, ascribing multiple
meanings to the concept of "middle", and explores the understanding
of the concept of "generation" as a historiographical construct.
Joan Ockman is an architectural
historian, critic, and educator. A graduate of Harvard University and the
Cooper Union School of Architecture, she began her career at the Institute for
Architecture and Urban Studies in New York in the mid–1970s, where she was an
editor of Oppositions journal, Oppositions Books, and other publications.
Currently Distinguished Senior Lecturer
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Visiting Professor at
Cooper Union School of Architecture and Cornell School of Architecture, Art and
Planning, she served as director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study
of American Architecture at Columbia University from 1994 to 2008 and as a
member of the faculty of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation for over two decades.
She has also held teaching appointments
at Harvard, Yale, the Berlage Institute, and the Architectural Association in
London. Starting in January 2020 she will be the Vincent Scully Visiting
Professor of Architectural History at Yale School of Architecture.
