BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3060.events_uoft_date.0@arthistory.utoronto.ca CREATED:20250917T170852Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, November 11, 2025 5:30 pm to 7:0 0 pm \n SS2110 \n Sidney Smith Hall \n 100 St. George Street, Toronto \n \nSpeakers \nEdward Dimendberg (University of California, Irvine) \n\nDes cription: \n PLEASE NOTE: Due to an unforseen circumstance with the origin al venue, this lecture will now be held in SS2110 (Sidney Smith Hall). Th ank-you for your understanding. During a productive career that spanned fo ur decades, the polymathic German artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki (194 4-2014) created essay films, television programs, documentaries, and ar t installations, and wrote theoretical texts and criticism. Although toda y best known for his investigations of war, photography, the visual arts , Farocki had a lifelong interest in the built environment and his late w ork includes four documentaries on the design process. The Creators of Sho pping Worlds (2001) presents an architectural competition for a shopping m all and the study of consumer behavior. In Comparison (2009) explores the social relations and technologies of brick production in six countries. A New Product (2012) follows the deliberations of consultants engaged in pla nning an office complex whose public spaces blur distinctions between work and private life. Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013) shows the principal s of an architecture studio known for its polychromatic buildings as they develop credible solutions and appease difficult clients. Throughout this cinematic “quartet,” Farocki employs the formal attitude  of “direct cine ma” in which the dialectical investigations and essay films of his earlier career give way to a neutral and invisible style. This late shift respond s to the imperatives of a different conjuncture where technology has the p otential to further marginalize architects in a world in which 90% of all buildings already are realized without them.To register for attendance at this in-person event, please click here. Bio:Edward Dimendberg is a histo rian of architecture and urbanism and Professor of Humanities at the Unive rsity of California, Irvine.  He also has taught at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His books include Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity and (Harvard, 2004) and Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Imag es. (Chicago, 2013). Recently, the Getty Research Institute published hi s critical edition of Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California by the German geographer Anton Wagner and the sourcebook Richard Neutra and the Making of the Love ll Health House, 1925-35. He frequently writes on architecture in the Uni ted States for Bauwelt and his research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, th e Getty Research Institute, and the American Academy in Berlin. He curren tly is writing a book about documentary films on architecture.   \n\nSpons ors \nDepartment of Art History \n100 St. George Street, Toronto \n\nCate gories \n LecturesSpecial Event \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsArt His tory CommunityCurrent Graduate StudentsCurrent Undergraduate StudentsFacul tyGeneral Public DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251111T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251111T190000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T180730Z LOCATION:100 St. George Street, Toronto SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Series: Edward Dimendberg (NOTE: VENUE CHANGE) URL;TYPE=URI:https://arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/guest-lecture-series-edw ard-dimendberg-note-venue-change END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR