Art/Architecture
The theme designated for the Program in Media and Modernity for the academic year 2006-07
is Art/Architecture, with the core seminar, MOD 500, co-taught by Stan Allen and Hal Foster.
The seminar explores topics of mutual interest to architects and artists over the last 100
years - sites where they have interacted productively and/or conflicted tellingly. Among the
concerns are new artistic languages (e.g., Cubism and de Stijl) and their impact on architecture,
and new artistic procedures (e.g., Constructivism and Surrealism) and their intersection with
architecture. The seminar examines the ubiquity of design in art and architecture; the impact
of various mass media; critiques of representation; applications of structuralism; variants of
minimalism; and art and architecture's shared critical and theoretical literature.
The theme of Art/Architecture is also treated in a conference held at Princeton on April
20-21, 2007: "Retracing the Expanded Field: A Conference on Art and Architecture." Organized
by Spyridon Papapetros, this conference addresses Rosalind Krauss' seminal 1978 essay,
"Sculpture in the Expanded Field."
In addition, the Program in Media and Modernity continues with projects from last year's designated
theme of the little magazines, polemical books, films and exhibitions of the 1960s and 70s. Events
include "Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196x to 197x," an
exhibition running at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC from November 14, 2006 to
January 31, 2007. Accompanying the exhibition are a series of talks at Storefront titled Little
Magazines/Small Talks (with participants including Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss,
Andrea Branzi, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler,
Bernard Tschumi, Steven Holl, Alison Sky, Suzanne Stephens, William Menking, Denise Scott-Brown,
and Beatriz Colomina); lectures by Peter Murray from Clip-Kit and AD and Dennis Crompton of
Archigram; and a conference titled "Little Magazines Then & Now" held at Princeton University on
February 23-24, 2007.