Resumo

Esta apresentação pretende refletir sobre a influência que o livro The Shape of Time (A Forma do Tempo), de George Kubler, teve sobre a arquitetura americana na década de 1960. Será dada especial atenção aos conceitos de hibridez e ambiguidade, principais ideias desenvolvidas no livro de 1966 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Complexidade e Contradição em Arquitetura) da autoria de Robert Venturi. Serão abordas questões como a reverberação na história da arquitetura e a primazia da forma arquitetónica.

Nota biográfica

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen is an associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where she teaches design, history, and theory of architecture and directs the Masters of Environmental Design program. Her scholarly work deals with the genesis and meaning of architectural form in different national and historical contexts. She is the author of three books: Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture; Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics; and Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment, and a coeditor of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future.In addition to these publications, Pelkonen has helped organize and curate two major traveling exhibitions, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future and Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment. She has published and lectured widely both in Europe and the United States and her scholarly work has been supported by the Getty, the Graham Foundation, the Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. Pelkonen\'s book on Saarinen won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award, granted by the authors club of Great Britain for the best book in art and architecture in 2006, and the Philip Johnson Award, granted by SAH for the best exhibition catalog for 2006, and she is now widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Saarinen scholars.

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