Things are moving. Yesterday's avant-garde quickly becomes today's tired establishment. At least one thing is certain: The Schindler House, a revolutionary architectural landmark on Kings Road in West Hollywood gives courage and confidence to all those who want to be ahead at any price in architecture. In confrontation of the fact that over the past years architecture has been caught in turbulence and flux around critical environmental issues, this architecture talk will address questions such as:
⏤ Can our society today still tolerate experiments ?
⏤ Who is ready to leave mediocrity behind ?
⏤ What are the actual circumstances for a further development of modern, contemporary architecture ?
⏤ Are there any alternatives to the "algorithm dictate" ?
⏤ And architecture as architecture today and now, tomorrow and in the future ?
ERIC O. MOSS
Eric O. Moss, as former SCI-Arc director, instantly gathered avant-garde and visiting figures such as Peter Eisenman, Lebbeus Woods, Raimund Abraham, Wolf Prix andor Zaha Hadid around him and in the center of the architecture school. At the same time, he did not let up and did not stop at groundbreaking high-profile structures in low-profile culver city, with the support of visionary clients Frederick and Laurie Samitaur-Smith. As Herbert Muschamp, New York Times architecture critic wrote: “The knowing spontaneity of his forms, the hands-on approach implicit in their strong, sculptural contours, the relationship they describe between a city’s vitality and the creative potential of its individuals: these coalesce into tangible lessons about how a city should face its future.”
PETER NOEVER
Peter Noever is an Austrian designer and curator-at-large of art, architecture and media. As the former director of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, he founded the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, with the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program with visionary purpose. Noever relentlessly brought Austrian and international avant-garde artists and architects into the public eye. Even before the collapse of the Soviet-union, he hosted Art and revolution: Russian and Sovietsoviet art 1910 - 1932, in 1988. Many of his visionary ideas are combined in the book „Architectural Resistance: Contemporary Architects Face Schindler Today“. Recent exhibitions include a.o.: out‾of the blue, Eisenstadt, Austria, 2022; Obsessions In_Focus, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, 2019; Book: WAIT A MINUTE recorded in Vienna and Los Angeles, edited by Peter Noever / Andrea Lenardin, 2022. He has conceived and/or curated over 350 exhibitions worldwide.
DR. LILLIAN PFAFF
Dr. Lilian Pfaff is an architectural historian and critic. She is the editor of Clocks and Clouds: The Architecture of Escher GuneWardena, published by Birkhäuser (2017), Ernst Neufert PeterNeufert, published by Hatje Cantz (2015), Vito Acconci: Art becomes Architecture becomes Art, and of Prada Aoyama Tokyo: Herzog & de Meuron, published by the Fondazione Prada (2003). She has curated exhibitions internationally and has held teaching positions in Switzerland and the US, currently at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Woodbury University and Otis College of Art and Design.