Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich Oddział Wrocław zaprasza na wykład z cyklu Duże A
Prof. Aleksandra Jaeschke (The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture)
„In Emergency Break Glass, and Other Exit Strategies for Designers”
18 grudnia 2024, g. 18:00
Aula Wydziału Architektury Politechniki Wrocławskiej
ul. Bolesława Prusa 53/55
Wykład odbędzie się w języku angielskim z tłumaczeniem symultanicznym.
abstract
In this lecture, Aleksandra Jaeschke draws on her creative practice, research, and teaching to explore the domains, scales, and timeframes essential to architecture’s relevance in addressing the ecological crisis. By examining the environmental, sociopolitical, and techno-scientific dynamics entangling architecture, she highlights the discipline’s limitations while uncovering opportunities within these complex interdependencies.
The lecture builds on Jaeschke’s Wheelwright Prize research, which included extensive fieldwork in regions such as Spain, Morocco, and Mexico, and focused on the spaces of protected agriculture. Using the greenhouse – often heralded as a solution to food production challenges – as a focal point, Jaeschke critiques the false promises of Western technologies. The greenhouse, sometimes referred to as a “forcing frame,” serves as a metaphor for the reductionist tendencies inherent in Western epistemological and axiological frameworks. She reflects on how this mindset demands subsidies and perpetuates “leakages” – unintended consequences and externalities – often overlooked by architects.
Jaeschke questions whether the greenhouse, as both a model and a mindset, can truly provide viable solutions to today’s ecological challenges. Instead, she advocates for abandoning the forcing-frame approach and calls for a radical rethinking of architectural strategies to confront the ecological crisis. She encourages her audience to wield the “intellectual emergency hammer” and break free from outdated paradigms before it is too late.
bio
Aleksandra Jaeschke is an architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Poland, she holds a Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard GSD and an AA Diploma from the Architectural Association in London.
Aleksandra holds a professional license in Italy where she practiced at AION, an architectural firm she co-founded and co-directed with Andrea Di Stefano until her move to the U.S. In recognition of the work developed by AION, she received the Europe 40 Under 40 Award for 2011 conferred by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum. In 2013, AION held a solo exhibition Eco-Machines in the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture in Poland.
Jaeschke contributed to Log 51 and Log 56, participated in Log’rithms held in the Italian Virtual Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, and was part of Model Behavior, a group exhibition curated by Anyone Corporation and presented by The Cooper Union Foundation in New York in 2022. In 2021, she curated Plant Potential, an event series focused on human-plant relations – www.plant-potential.world. A book based on her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Greening of America’s Building Codes: Promises and Paradoxes, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in December 2022.
Jaeschke was the winner of the DigitalFUTURES's 2021 Mark Cousins Theory Award and the Harvard GSD’s 2019 Wheelwright Prize.
partnerzy
Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, Wydział Architektury Politechniki Wrocławskiej
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