Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Description
Hauntology is everywhere in architecture, it pervades the fabric of our cities and the nostalgia of our histories and even in those contemporary areas where we might expect there to be a break from the past, architectures predicated on computational systems have the doubly curved futurity of previous ‘space-age’ stylings, or the ‘biophilic’ legacy of art-nouveau to contend with. The utopian legacy of modernity haunts and taunts current architecture and the contemporary cannot break with the promise of a newness which the architecture of late capitalism can never deliver. But it is in its representations that architecture finds the greatest abundance of ghosts, as the drawing has always existed in a state of in-betweenness between a promise and a reality, in this lecture Nic Clear will explore the ghosts of architectural representation and how his own drawings and the work of Clear + Park embrace the positive affect of an architectural hauntology.