Thursday, 2 September, 2021

 

Module 1 -  Hygiene and Health in the Modern Home - Architecture in the Age of Pandemics

Lecture and video together will approximately take 1,5 hour.

09:00 – 10:30 a.m. PDT/LA 
12:00 – 01:30 p.m. EDT/NY
06:00 – 07:30 p.m. CEST/Europe

 

Keynote Address: Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University. She writes and curates on questions of design, art, sexuality and media. Her books include Sexuality and Space, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media, Domesticity at War, Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies and The Century of the Bed. Her latest book is X-Ray Architecture. She has curated a number of exhibitions including Playboy Architecture, and The 24/7 Bed. In 2016 she was chief curator with Mark Wigley of the third Istanbul Design Biennial. In 2018 she was mas made Honorary Doctor by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and 2020 she was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contributions to the field of architecture.

 

Thematic Video - Hygiene and Health in the Modern Home 

Expert presenter: Hetty Berens

Hetty Berens is Curator at the Sonneveld House and Het Nieuwe Instituut. Architectural Historian In her video she will unfold how improved hygiene made healthier homes. Houses featured in this video are:

- De Kiefhoek, J.J.P. Oud, 1930
- Erasmuslaan Model Home, Gerrit Rietveld, 1931
- Sonneveld House, Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, 1933
- Dijkstra House, Ben Merkelbach en Charles Karsten, 1934
- Kraayeveld House, now Chabot Museum, G.W. Baas, 1938

 

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