A School of Architecture Lecture Series Event
When
Join CAPLA for the School of Architecture Lecture Series, featuring dynamic speakers from across built environment industries.
In this lecture Léopold Lambert will present the history of The Funambulist. It began as a blog in 2007, expanded with a podcast in 2013 and eventually evolved into a print and online magazine published six times a year in 2015. The talk will initially focus on the magazine's contents, which analyze political struggles worldwide through a perspective centered on space and the built environment. It will also address the critical questions that facilitate the formation of internationalist solidarities among these struggles. Léopold will then provide an in-depth look "behind the scenes" of the magazine by describing the politics inherent in various aspects of knowledge production, as well as the logistics required to establish and maintain such a publication over the years.
This lecture will be held both in-person in CAPLA West Sundt Gallery and online.
About the Speaker
Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall and the Street (2016) and La politique du Bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (2016). His new book is called States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum (2021).