Françoise Fromonot
Storks, Cabbages and Beakers: A Typology of Contemporary Urbanism
Date: 16/10/2012
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture
Hall
The third of four public talks in the Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series
Half a century has passed since the publication of Françoise
Choay's threefold typology of urbanism (progressist, culturalist, naturalist).
In light of the economical and ideological mutations of the post-1970s western
world, perhaps it is necessary to assess the contemporary panorama of
urban design. This lecture will propose a new classification of
urbanism and question how an updated classification might help construct an
alternative position for defining trends.
Françoise Fromonot, an architect by training, is currently Professor of
History, Theory and Design at the ENSA Paris and a lecturer at Sciences-Po
Paris. As a critic she is the author of numerous articles and several books on
contemporary architecture and urbanism. She is a co-founder and editor of the
French critical journal criticat.
Students please visit video archive to view this lecture. This lecture
is not available online.
