98. Crisis & Criticism with Christopher Hawthorne
Description
Our guest on this episode is Christopher Hawthorne, the Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Architecture. His previous roles include architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, and Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. His current mission is to assemble the Speaker’s Corner at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Unfrozen hears his unique perspective as both critic and exhibitor.
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Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: “Inteligens: Natural, Artificial, Collective” – Carlo Ratti
Speakers’ Corner / Re-staging Criticism series, part of the GENS Public Program
- Florencia Rodriguez, Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago
- Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston of Johnston Marklee
- Inspiration: “Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community,” by A. Krista Sykes
- 9 May: “Exhibition as Critical Vessel”
o Florencia Rodriguez, Moderator
o Lesley Lokko, 2023 Biennale curator
o Michael Meredith (MOS) > Building with Writing
- 10 May: Conversation on L.A. Fires
11 May:
1980 Venice Architecture Biennale – The Presence of the Past - Paolo Portoghesi
- Strada Novissima, feat. Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Arati Isozaki, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown
- Teatro del Mundo, Aldo Rossi
- Critic’s Corner, feat. Vincent Scully, Charles Jencks, Kenneth Frampton & Christian Norberg-Schulz
Why “The Brutalist” Isn’t Really About Architecture
Writing About Architecture - Alexandra Lange
Caught practicing without a license: Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Jefferson
International Committee of Architecture Critics
You Have to Pay for the Public Life, by Charles Moore
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Robert Venturi
United States
