Wed
07
May
Seminars and Conferences
Lecture 7: Óskar Örn Arnórsson | Practicing the Marshall Plan: How a Sack of Wheat Becomes a Building
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 seventh event of the A+Lectures 2025 series will take place on May 7, 2025, from 2:30 to 4:00 PM in Room 201 at the Lingotto. The guest speaker will be Óskar Örn Arnórsson, introduced by Professor Sofia Nannini, with a lecture titled "Practicing the Marshall Plan: How a Sack of Wheat Becomes a Building."
Óskar Örn Arnórsson is a New York/Reykjavík based architect and architectural historian. In the Spring of 2025, he successfully defended his dissertation on “Architectures of the Marshall Plan in Europe: France, Greece, Germany, 1948-1952 and Beyond” at Columbia University’s GSAPP. In the dissertation, Óskar looks at how the US governed “Western Europe” through the built environment after WWII. His interests include architectures of global governance, development, and environment.
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 seventh event of the A+Lectures 2025 series will take place on May 7, 2025, from 2:30 to 4:00 PM in Room 201 at the Lingotto. The guest speaker will be Óskar Örn Arnórsson, introduced by Professor Sofia Nannini, with a lecture titled "Practicing the Marshall Plan: How a Sack of Wheat Becomes a Building."
Óskar Örn Arnórsson is a New York/Reykjavík based architect and architectural historian. In the Spring of 2025, he successfully defended his dissertation on “Architectures of the Marshall Plan in Europe: France, Greece, Germany, 1948-1952 and Beyond” at Columbia University’s GSAPP. In the dissertation, Óskar looks at how the US governed “Western Europe” through the built environment after WWII. His interests include architectures of global governance, development, and environment.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.