Taking a new look at aesthetics
This year’s J. Irwin Miller symposium, convened by Assistant Dean Mark Foster Gage and hosted by the School of Architecture, explored emerging positions that cast aesthetics as the primary discourse for social, ecological, and political engagement. Aesthetic Activism on October 13–15 brought together an interdisciplinary group of philosophers, scholars, media theorists, artists, curators, and architects to discuss the ways that aesthetics is prompting new insights into our relationships, not only with objects, spaces, environments, and ecologies, but also with each other and the political structures in which we are all enmeshed.
Exhibition focuses on Central Europe
Oskar Hansen, Open Form, an exhibition featuring the career of the prolific postwar Polish architect, artist, and educator, is on view through December 7 in the Rudolph Hall gallery. The exhibition traces the evolution of Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in his own architectural projects to its application in film, visual games, and other artistic practices. A symposium, Transit Point: Mitteleuropa, was held in September to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. The symposium highlighted Central Europe’s historic position as a way station for people of different cultural backgrounds and nationalities, providing fertile ground for the convergence of interdisciplinary artistic and intellectual exchanges.
Building on a sliver of a lot
The SoA dedicated the 2016 Jim Vlock First-Year Building Project on September 26. This year’s challenge was to create a 1,000-square-foot house on a narrow sliver lot at 196 Winthrop Avenue in New Haven’s West River neighborhood. The project was done in partnership with NeighborWorks New Horizons, an organization dedicated to developing quality affordable housing. Since 1967, first-year architecture students have worked collaboratively to design and build a structure as a required part of their graduate education.
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