Armillary Lecture: Boris Hamzeian

Boris Hamzeian
LIVE CENTRE OF INFORMATION UNPLUGGED. METHODS, TOOLS AND IMPACT OF A THESIS IN HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Boris Hamzeian (PhD EPFL, 2021) is an architect and architectural historian specialising in experiments in “technomorphic” architecture and experimental architectural teaching practices in the 1960s. He is a research fellow in the architecture department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne-MNAM CCI at the Centre Pompidou. He is currently lecturer in the history and theory of contemporary architecture at the ecole nationale superieure d’architecture de Saint-Etienne-ENSASE, holds a grant from the Italian Ministry of Culture (Italian Council) and is a member of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Renzo Piano. His publications include monographs on the Centre Pompidou and the avant-garde group UFO, as well as articles on the works of OMA, Aldo Rossi, Ugo La Pietra and Renzo Piano.

ARMILLARY LECTURES
Armillary spheres are “models of the celestial globe constructed from rings and hoops representing the equator, the tropics, and other celestial circles, and able to revolve on its axis.” This lecture series wants to be a window onto the sphere of academic research, gazing at the different constellations drawn by doctoral dissertations within the horizon of architecture.
The course aims at inviting researchers that already obtained a PhD to present their dissertation to an audience of doctorands, providing a diverse array of examples and case studies on approaching dissertation work within the field of architecture.