Clare Lyster, Urbanism in Disguise, Aerial Perspective, 2013

Learning From Logistics” presentation by Clare Lyster, Principal, CLUAA, Chicago, and Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Chicago IL.

Time and Place

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170

Bio

Clare Lyster is an architect, educator and writer based in Chicago, where she is an Associate Professor at the UIC School of Architecture. In addition to CLUAA, a research and design practice founded by her in 2009, she frequently writes about architecture and urbanism from the perspective of contemporary theories in landscape, infrastructure and globalization. She is co-editor of 306090 09 Regarding Public Space (PA Press 2005) and Envisioning the Bloomingdale (Chicago 2009). Essays have appeared in journals from Cabinet to Volume and as chapters in edited anthologies on landscape and mobility networks. Current work focuses on logistical systems, the subject of her recently published book titled, Learning from Logistics: How Networks Inform Cities (Birkhäuser, 2016) and will be featured in the upcoming Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Lecture Summary

The network is the DNA of urbanization. In the 19th century railroads and canals provided both structure and stimulus for city development, while in the 20th century it was the highway that catalyzed urban settlements. Since the 1970’s this role has been taken over by a new species of networks called logistics that curate the global flow of data, people and products around the world each day. For our city fabric, and the design disciplines, this development has enormous implications that are only emerging. Clare charts the impact of logistics networks on architecture and urbanism and discusses how design might critically conceptualize, even integrate, these contemporary time-space systems into the built environment.

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