Lecture Series: Margarita Jover
Monday, October 16, 2023
5:30pm - 7pm
Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenburg Art Center,
Tulane's Uptown Campus
This lecture is open to the public.
"Cities & Rivers: architecture beyond the object" is presented by Margarita Jover, Professor, Tulane School of Architecture, and principal and co-founder, aldayjover architecture and landscape.
"aldayjover's case for architecture's role in solving territorial issues can be understood as a bid to rescue the living habitat from the blind and uncoordinated technical management of the planner, the sociologist, the civil engineer, the environmental scientist and so on, to the degree that such professionals, in their rational and scientific methodologies, tend to objectify and quantify the habitat in the sense defined by Martin Heidegger in his essay, "The Question Concerning Technology," which identifies a way of thinking in which, for example, a lake becomes nothing more than a quantifiable amount of stored water, a "resource".(Heidegger 1977). All of these specialists are necessary in solving problems at a territorial scale, but they are not sufficient in themselves. As in the building trades, architects are not only coordinators of different specialists. They bring to the table the humanist values of architectural culture, its awareness of history, its sophistication in visual, spatial, sympathetic, and associative or poetic thinking, and its full participation in cultural and intellectual concerns in the broadest sense.” -Cities and Rivers. Beyond sustainability. David Cohn.
Margarita Jover is tenured Professor of Architecture at Tulane University, Director of the Landscape Architecture and Engineering Masters program, and co-founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape.
Margarita is co-author of the books Ecologies of Prosperity (Ar+D/ORO), Cities and Rivers (ACTAR) or The Water Park (ACTAR). Founded in 1996 and based in Barcelona (Spain) and New Orleans (USA), aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research-based practice, focused on innovation and in the specific character of a place. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers. aldayjover has designed significant recent public spaces in Madrid (Metropolitan Forest), in Barcelona (Sagrera Park/The Green Diagonal), Zaragoza (Water Park, Tramway), Pamplona (Aranzadi Park) or Ibiza (Vara de Rei), together with cultural centers, theaters, sports halls, infrastructural buildings, and social housing.
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