Lecture by Prof. Dr. Silke Steets [FAU Erlangen], #2 of the Lecture Series Organizing Architectures in Summer Semester 2025
The lecture argues that architecture co-constitutes social situations, making it directly relevant to everyday encounters between people in both public and private spaces. To more precisely determine this constitutive relationship, we must consider not only the design of buildings and their material and symbolic effects, but also how people appropriate them to form identities. The knowledge-sociological perspective presented in the lecture offers a fruitful way of systematically bringing these aspects together. This will be demonstrated in the conclusion through the case study, “Living with Walter,” which reconstructs everyday life in the Bauhaus settlement of Dessau-Törten.
11 June 2025
6 – 7.30 p.m.
Goethe University Frankfurt,
Campus Westend,
Seminarhaus 1.104