PROGRAMME
Thursday, 24th of August 2023
– 7 pm // The Arab Center for Architecture in Beirut: modern architecture in the Arab world and its documentation and preservation – by George Arbid
– 8.30 pm // Listen to places – by Aldo Amoretti
– 9.30 pm // Opening of the photographic exhibition of Aldo Amoretti
Friday, 25th of August 2023
– 7 pm // Another future – by Carles Enrich
– 8.30 pm // Things of Modernity – by Laurent Stalder
Free inscription, reservations on ticketib
INTRODUCTION
The concept of transference describes the transposition of an image or an object from one context to another. The phenomena derived from the displacement of works and ideas broaden points of view and multiply the registers of meaning. The transferences that are woven between the universe of Toni Catany, other creators and other disciplines become an enormously fruitful field of relationships, of ways of transmitting, recreating, translating and interpreting. Therefore, architecture, understood as an artistic expression, opens a door to these connections, to these links, which we want to delve into from Catany’s photographic work.
The Toni Catany International Photography Centre aims to encourage this exchange between creators and disciplines and offers itself as a field of action for all kinds of interactions and transformation processes of visions and sensibilities.
Antoni Garau, director of the Fundació Toni Catany
PRESENTATION
Architectural questions is as a reflection on common issues in artistic production that are shared, therefore, by photography and architecture.
Within the framework of the recently inaugurated Toni Catany International Photography Center (Llucmajor, Mallorca), these sessions are proposed around, first of all the creation, the invention of the new. Architecture and photography are based on reality but their action always provokes a new look, a new space that at the same time that orients us towards the future makes us understand and broaden our perception of the existing.
But also, this activity does not come from nothing, it is based on knowledge, on analysis, on the widening of the field, on the abstraction of thought and tradition. In our case, as a close moment, also the Mediterranean culture, as a real and wide framework.
Creation and knowledge as dialectically complementary values that inform the sessions that will take place on August 24-25 at the Toni Catany International Photography Center in Llucmajor.
Josep Lluís Mateo, architect
SPEAKERS
George Arbid
following a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures en Architecture from the ALBA, Arbid was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT History, Theory and Criticism Program and obtained a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University. He held teaching positions at ALBA, AUB, and the Lebanese University. His research covers mostly modern architecture in Lebanon and the Arab World. He is a co-founder and director of the Arab Center for Architecture located in Beirut, and of Docomomo Lebanon.
graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, worked as an architect until 2005, where he started working as an architectural photographer, collaborating with several internationally renowned architects such as Peter Zumthor, John Pawson, BIG Bjark Ingels, Snhoetta, Auer Weber, J.L Mateo, , among others.
His photographic work is published in important architectural magazines such as The Architectural Review, Casabella, Detail, Abitare, and has been exhibited at international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale or the Galerie d’Architecture de Paris.
architect by ETSAB in 2005. His concern towards an architecture understood as a superposition of layers rooted in the landscape, lead him to shape his research vocation through teaching, being associate professor of Projects at ETSAB since 2016. Since 2013 he founded Carles Enrich Studio where he develops projects that reach the entire habitable territory, from the domestic sphere to the landscape.
Laurent Stalder
is since 2006 professor at the Institute of History and Theory of the ETH Zurich. In 2009 he was visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2019 he was visiting professor of “Architectural Behaviorology” at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
The main focus of Laurent Stalder’s research and publications is the history and theory of architecture from the 19th to the 21st century, where it intersects with the history of technology.