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Tom Weaver, MIT Press
LECTURE TITLE: A Story for Myself
This lecture explores architecture’s somewhat ambivalent relationship with biography – something revealed by the fact that two millennia of architectural publishing has seen architects confidently telling us about everything except themselves. This oddity will be unpicked through a rumination on the first, and to a certain extent only book of architectural biography – Giorgio Vasari’s sixteenth-century Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects – but along the way it will also consider the rarity of architectural ‘lives’ against the ubiquity of architectural ‘projects’, as well as invoking various heroes and villains that includes Samuel Beckett, Colin Rowe, Lewis Carroll, Ayn Rand, Manfredo Tafuri, Esther McCoy and Sigmund Freud.
Biography
Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, teacher and senior acquisitions editor for art and architecture at the MIT Press. Educated at the Bartlett School of Architecture and at Princeton University, he subsequently combined editorial positions – at ANY magazine in New York and AA Files at the AA School in London – with academic appointments, including the Cooper Union, the GSD Harvard University and currently at the Berlage, TU Delft. He has lectured extensively, and is the author of five books and numerous essays and published conversations.