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March 25, 2021
Lecture: Geoff Manaugh (Webinar)
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
On Burglars, Earthquakes, and Invisible Cities: Architectural Research Outside the Academy
Architectural and spatial research assumes different expectations and goals when pursued outside academia. We will discuss this with a focus on three recent interdisciplinary projects: mapping a potential new plate-tectonic boundary in the California desert, tracking the role of burglars in revealing the limits of the built environment, and redefining architectural ruins in today’s electromagnetic archaeology.
Geoff Manaugh is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016). In 2004, Manaugh launched the website BLDGBLOG, dedicated to “architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures.” In 2021, his book Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, written with Nicola Twilley—exploring 600 years of architecture, suspicion, isolation, and uncertainty—will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD. He lives in Los Angeles.
This research is partially funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
