Time and Location

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

In the details: Composing Architectural Histories” presentation by Nora Wendl, Assistant Professor of Architecture, College of the Arts, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

Bio

Nora Wendl questions the composition of architecture and architectural histories by borrowing strategies from the adjacent fields of fiction, poetry, art and literature. She is co-editor, with Isabelle Loring Wallace, of Contemporary Art about Architecture: A Strange Utility (Ashgate, 2013), and is releasing her first book of concrete poems, Glass Documents, through Ugly Duckling Presse (NY) in early 2016. Her writing and projects have appeared in 306090, Architecture and Culture, Forty-Five, Journal of Architectural Education, On Site: Review, Thresholds, and elsewhere; she has exhibited and presented internationally. Her interdisciplinary work has been supported by awards, grants and residencies through Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Oregon Arts Commission, Coast Time, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, and other organizations. She is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture at Portland State University, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Lecture Summary

The composition of histories requires the formation of narrative, driven by the conceptual engagement and interpretation of events and artifacts; in materially engaging and interpreting the artifactual details that have contributed to the received history of the Farnsworth House, a new history is made.

For more information about this speaker’s visit, contact Department of Architecture Chair Karl Wallick.