Is black a colour, or simply the absence of light? Join Mohsen Mostafavi and Peter Märkli to explore the colour black in the context of art and architecture.
In Mostafavi's recent publication with MACK, he unpacks the importance of the colour black for thinking about architecture. Contextualising this exploration within art history, the book presents an array of visual material, alongside Marxist German art historian Max Raphael's essay: 'The Color Black: On the Material Constitution of Form'.
After a brief lecture, Mostafavi will be in conversation with influential Swiss architect and founder of Studio Märkli, Peter Märkli, whose musings on colour and architecture form a key part of the book's narrative. Their conversation will be moderated by Ingrid Schroder, Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; he served as Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2008-2019.
Peter Märkli established his own studio in 1978. From 2002–2015 he had a Professorship in architecture at the ETH in Zurich. Since 2013, he has been a visiting professor at the Moscow School of Architecture. Among his most notable works is 'La Congiunta', a small Swiss gallery housing sculptures by Hans Josephsohn.
Ingrid Schroder is the Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She a British-American architect and academic, and was previously a Cambridge University Lecturer in Architectural History, and Urban and Landscape Theory.
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