Spain GSD Spring 2018 Lecture Series. Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture

Spain GSD is pleased to introduce GSD alumni Jesús Vassallo, who will give a lecture titled: Seamlees: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture. In this lecture, he will unpack his research on the relationship between contemporary photography and architecture. During the past fifty years, documentary photography and architecture have become increasingly interdependent, blurring the disciplinary boundary between the two. The book Seamless looks at the work of a new generation of European photographers and architects working together to produce images of architecture made from fragments of reality. At the same time, it investigates how shared digital technologies influence the creation of architecture and its photographic representation through images. Seamless discusses the collaborations between Filip Dujardin and Jan De Vylder, Philipp Schaerer and Roger Boltshauser, and Bas Princen and OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severen. This lecture is organized by Spain GSD and co-founded by Harvard GSD Alumni Relations as part of its Alumni Insight Lecture Series. This lecture is supported by the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. Jesús Vassallo (March’07) is a Spanish architect, writer, and currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University. His work has been included in the ongoing exhibition, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, curated by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder. Jesús’ work interrogates the problem of realism in architecture through the production of design projects and scholarly inquiry. He is the author of Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (Park Books, 2016)

Speaker: Jesús Vassallo, Spanish architect and writer, Assistant professor at Rice University