Please join us for a round table conversation about two new releases published by MIT Press, Graph Vision: Digital Architecture’s Skeletons by Theodora Vardouli and Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture co-edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong.

On this occasion, Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Theodora Vardouli will be joined by architecture editor Thomas Weaver and graphic designer Ben Fehrman-Lee to discuss their contributions to the two books and their making.

Graph Vision, which originated from Vardouli’s PhD dissertation at MIT and expanded thanks to new archives made available after its completion, explores how the graph, as a protean mathematical entity, ushered in new images, tools, and infrastructures for design and catalyzed a digital future for architecture.

Narrating the Globe stemmed from two workshops organized in 2016 and 2017 by Brouwer in Wassenaar and Leiden on “Constructing the Architectural Canon,” which eventually led twenty-four architectural historians to collectively explore how notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of world histories of architecture that emerged in the nineteenth century and shaped the discipline as we know it today. Bressani and Armstrong joined as co-editors following the 2016 workshop.

This event is open to the public, no reservation needed.

Thomas Weaver stewarded the production of both Narrating the Globe and Graph Vision while Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture for MIT Press. He is currently Guest Professor at the Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland and Visiting Professor at Princeton University.

Ben Fehrman-Lee designed Narrating the Globe. He is an Associate Design Director at 2×4 in New York, and works independently as a graphic designer, typographer, and art director.

Theodora Vardouli is the author of Graph Vision and Associate Professor at McGill’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.

Petra Brouwer co-edited Narrating the Globe and is a Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Martin Bressani co-edited Narrating the Globe and is a Professor at McGill’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.