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MBIArch Notes: Michael Jakob

History, Theory & Criticism

Visiting Professor Michael Jakob began his Specialized Theory seminar last Friday as a part of the second phase of the MBIArch Program. Jakob’s seminar, titled Landscape or Landscapes? Why Theory Matters, will analyze the multiple definitions behind the Landscape phenomena (both physical and image) and will begin to approach the topic by referencing a wide variety of disciplines: sociology, history, psychology, geography, etc.

Jakob also discussed the subject of Landforms with Stan Allen and Iñaki Ábalos at BIArch this past Spring during Allen’s Book Launch of Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain, in which Jakob contributed the essay On Mountains: Scalable and Unscalable. A summary of the presentation can be found in an earlier post in BIArch’s digital Journal, describing some of the narratives and theories on city and landscape presented in the book.

Michael Jakob is professor of history and theory of landscape at hepia (Geneva) and of comparative literature at Grenoble University. He is the founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature, and the chief editor of «di monte in monte», a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania).

*Photo by Timothy Brennan

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