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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Daniel Barber "Environmental Histories of Architecture – Case Studies and Consequences"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thursday 9 March 2017 <br>
6.00 – 7.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ALT1, Wilkinson Building, City Road, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Presented by the Sydney Environment Institute, in association with Architecture, Design and Planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How does the specter of catastrophic climate change inflect the methods and narratives of architectural history? In the first instance, a number of case studies, heretofore largely unknown, emerge as newly
significant. This lecture will discuss two, outlining how solar house heating methods and techniques of climatic design were essentials aspects of the global architectural discussion in the period surrounding World War II. These techno-cultural developments
not only produced novel designs, they also offered placed architecture as a mediator, facilitating novel conceptions of the relationship between social and biotic systems. Architectural ideas had important ramifications for technological applications of the
environmental sciences, and for the global ambitions of environmental governance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the second instance, the insertion of these narratives into the history of architectural modernism disrupt familiar patterns of knowledge. An environmental history of architecture begins to emerge, in which
the field serves as a cipher for the changing cultural approaches to the environment across the long 20<sup>th</sup> century. As such, these and related case studies offer new frameworks for understanding the relationship between technology, culture, and environment
– frameworks that help scholars, architects, and others to make sense of the epochal shifts we are facing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Daniel A. Barber, University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chair:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Lee Stickells, University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Daniel A. Barber</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He is an architectural historian researching the relationship
between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture over the 20th century. His first book A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War has just been published by Oxford University Press. A second book Climatic
Effects: Architecture, Media, and the Great Acceleration, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2018. He has published in Grey Room, Technology and Culture, The Avery Review, and Public Culture. He lectures internationally, including a recent
keynote for Que Fait l’Énergie à l’Architecture? at ENSA- Paris-Belleville.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Daniel is involved in a number of collaborative research projects around the globe. He is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has held fellowships at the Harvard
University Center for the Environment, the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Courtauld Institute, and currently, through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the Rachel Carson Center for Environmental and Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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