Soft Schindler: On Exchange and Other Balacing Acts: Panel Discussion

Chilean curators and designers Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola join SCI-Arc faculty members Marrikka Trotter (History + Theory Coordinator) and Marcelyn Gow (MS Design Theory and Pedagogy Coordinator) in conversation about the role of cultural and material exchange in architectural history, curation, and design. In 2014, Alonso and Palmarola were awarded the Silver Lion 14th Venice Architecture Biennale for Chile Pavilion, Monolith Controversies. Choreographies, their video diptych that looks at the representation of building construction across the US-Soviet divide, is included in Soft Schindler, now on view at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Moderated by Soft Schindler curator and SCI-Arc faculty member and Alumna Mimi Zeiger (M.Arch, ’98).