From June 30th, 2012 until January 1st, 2013, the sixth series of the BHSF office talks will take place. The series addresses enlightenment and superstition, the visible and the invisible, stories and their effects on reality, irrational fears and the presence of the uncanny in the architect’s work. Depending on one’s susceptibility this raises notions of the supernatural, in Gothe’s words we are tackling ‘the spirits we have summoned’.
This interest in ghosts stems, in part, from a reading of Reinhold Martin’s “Utopia’s Ghost” (2010), in which he investigates the unavowed or unnoticed presence of modernist utopian thought in postmodern thinking. We are haunted by ghosts of the past and once again it becomes clear that our work as architects is not totally rational. With these talks we would like to propose a collective exorcism, or maybe an evocation that conjures new insights into the darker corners of architectural practice.
Our guests will be an artist, an art historian, a composer/sound artist and several architects and architecture offices with with varying focuses. The talks will take place at 8pm in the BHSF offices.
