IMA-R-GINAL Architecture: Structures of Memory in Contemporary Cities
Guest Lecture by Karla Villavicencio, Lima/Vienna, (in English)
The lecture is a joint project between the Studio of Conceptual Art and the Institute for Art and Architecture organized by Marina Grzinic, Gabu Heindl and Micsael Poetschko.
Questions and answers after the lecture facilitated by Hansel Sato (Spanish-English-German).
Karla Villavicencio talk will be about illegal cities in LatinAmerica that are culturally, socially and politically marginalized. Theaim of the lecture is to offer with the help of documentation a newperspective on urban development. The lecture will focus on Peru and onmigration of the indigenous population from the Andes to Lima. It willtry to show how immigration transforms the architecture of the city.Furthermore the lecture will propose a platform for reading visuallythe social impact of such transformations on the development ofarchitecture. These architectural and urban spaces can be compared to aliving skin that adapts itself to the needs of the migrants. For thisreason such architecture makes clearly visible the social, economic andpolitical dimensions of architecture.
Dr. Karla Villavicencio is artist that holds PhD in architecturefrom the European University in Madrid, Spain. She creates projectsabout the evolution of different cities in multicultural societiesaround the globe. She tries to show the visual memory of socialprocesses in architectural spaces within contemporary cities.Villavicencio studied in Peru and Spain. In the past she has beenworking as assistant professor for Architecture in The Architecture andArt School of the European University of Madrid.