Erik Sigge: "Architecture’s Red Tape" & Bojan Boric: "Hybrid Frameworks" (Higher seminar, Oct 2)

ERIK SIGGE: ARCHITECTURE'S RED TAPE – GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN SWEDEN 1964-72 

BOJAN BORIC: HYBRID FRAMEWORKS – NEW PLANNING PROCESSES AND SHIFTING POWER IN CHISINAU, MOLDAVIA 

REINHOLD MARTIN

is Associate Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the PhD program in architecture and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is a member of Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society as well as the Committee on Global Thought. Martin is a founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room and has published widely on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture. He is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003), and Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010), as well as the co-author, with Kadambari Baxi, of Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries (Actar, 2007). In 2012, Martin co-curated with Barry Bergdoll “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" , at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for which he and Bergdoll also co-edited the exhibition catalogue. His work centers on histories of space, power, and the aesthetic imagination, particularly as mediated by technical infrastructures. Related areas of research include architecture and epistemology, globalization and cities, and media history. Currently, Martin is working on two books: a history of the nineteenth century American university as a media complex, and a study of the contemporary city at the intersection of aesthetics and politics.

ERIK SIGGE

 is an architectural historian and preservationist, currently conducting doctoral research in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is coordinator and research member of the strong research environment Architecture in Effect: Rethinking the Social in Architecture and member of research group Inter-Scandinavian Research Network for Welfare and Architecture. He is editor, with Helen Runting and Fredrik Torisson, of the journal  LO-RES Architectural theory , politics and criticism. Previously, Erik Sigge was Director of Educational and Cultural Programs at Scandinavia House in New York City, where he led the public programs of The American-Scandinavian Foundation. He received a Master degree in Historic Preservation at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York (2003), and a Bachelor degree in Integrated Conservation of the Built Environment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2000).

BOJAN BORIC

holds a Degree in Architecture from Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York (1993), and a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from GSAPP Columbia University, New York (1999). He has been a practicing architect since 1993, and registered with NCARB in New York State and Virginia since 2002. Over this time he has developed a range of projects from interiors to housing, public buildings and urban design in the US, Europe and Asia. In 1997 in New York he founded the office Forma Architecture and Design . Since 2004 Bojan has been based in Sweden. He has been involved in many international exhibitions and collaborative projects and he has organized conferences and workshops with a focus on contemporary architecture and urbanism. He has also been involved in research projects and teaching at GSAPP Columbia University, and more recently at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. Between 2009 and 2011 he was the Director of the Masters Program in Urban Planning and Design at KTH, Stockholm. Today, Bojan is the head of a masters level architecture studio focusing on urban design.