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Seminars and Conferences
Lecture 6: Andrés Jaque | Transscalar Architecture
The A+ Lectures 2025 – Critical Unboxing. Projects and Processes offer a multidisciplinary perspective on architecture, exploring its processes, ideas, and narratives through the contributions of international experts.
This initiative, coordinated by Professor Cristina Coscia, is promoted by the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD). Originally conceived within the Master’s Degree Program in Architecture Construction City (ACC), it has now expanded to include all Master’s Degree Programs within the Department. It is open to all Master’s students as well as final-year students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programs at the College of Architecture and Design.
Five years after their debut in 2020, the ACC Master Lectures have evolved into A+ Lectures, a transformation that reflects the program’s growth and its ambition to broaden its scope. The 2025 edition of A+ Lectures revolves around the concept of Critical Unboxing, reinterpreting the idea of "unpacking" not just as an act applied to objects but to architecture itself. In design and architecture, a box can be a container, a text, or a built form. However, a critical unboxing is not merely about revealing a final product; it is an act of unveiling that brings to light the processes, logics, and meanings that often remain hidden. This edition proposes a fresh approach to architectural narration, transforming each lecture into an opportunity to investigate and decipher what usually remains invisible.
The sixth event of the A+lectures 2025 series will host Andrés Jaque, introduced by Professor Albena Yaneva, with a talk titled Transscalar Architecture.
The lecture is scheduled for May 5, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, in the Salone d'Onore of Castello del Valentino, Turin.
This lecture is part of the Stati Generali della Didattica event, an initiative of the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design-DAD.
Andrés Jaque, Dean of Columbia University’s GSAPP, is an architect, writer, and curator known for exploring architecture as a political entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments. Founder of the Office for Political Innovation, his projects include the Reggio School (Madrid) and Ocean Space (Venice). He has received major awards like the 2024 UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Jaque has curated international exhibitions and authored books such as Superpowers of Scale and PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.
This initiative, coordinated by Professor Cristina Coscia, is promoted by the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD). Originally conceived within the Master’s Degree Program in Architecture Construction City (ACC), it has now expanded to include all Master’s Degree Programs within the Department. It is open to all Master’s students as well as final-year students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programs at the College of Architecture and Design.
Five years after their debut in 2020, the ACC Master Lectures have evolved into A+ Lectures, a transformation that reflects the program’s growth and its ambition to broaden its scope. The 2025 edition of A+ Lectures revolves around the concept of Critical Unboxing, reinterpreting the idea of "unpacking" not just as an act applied to objects but to architecture itself. In design and architecture, a box can be a container, a text, or a built form. However, a critical unboxing is not merely about revealing a final product; it is an act of unveiling that brings to light the processes, logics, and meanings that often remain hidden. This edition proposes a fresh approach to architectural narration, transforming each lecture into an opportunity to investigate and decipher what usually remains invisible.
The sixth event of the A+lectures 2025 series will host Andrés Jaque, introduced by Professor Albena Yaneva, with a talk titled Transscalar Architecture.
The lecture is scheduled for May 5, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, in the Salone d'Onore of Castello del Valentino, Turin.
This lecture is part of the Stati Generali della Didattica event, an initiative of the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design-DAD.
Andrés Jaque, Dean of Columbia University’s GSAPP, is an architect, writer, and curator known for exploring architecture as a political entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments. Founder of the Office for Political Innovation, his projects include the Reggio School (Madrid) and Ocean Space (Venice). He has received major awards like the 2024 UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Jaque has curated international exhibitions and authored books such as Superpowers of Scale and PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.