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SUMMARY:Gorillas In The House of Light: London Zoo and the Modernist Proje
 ct - Dr. David Ashford\, Lecturer in English\, University of Surrey
DTSTART:20090429T183000Z
DTEND:20090429T200000Z
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CONTACT:Johanna Hanink
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Dr. David Ashford discusses the remarkable modern
 ist zoo architecture created in England by Berthold Lubetkin. At a time wh
 en many people were compelled to live in substandard victorian terraces\, 
 penguins\, elephants\, polar bears and gorillas at London\, Dudley and Whi
 psnade Zoo could be seen living in stylish Corbusian villas. For most of t
 he people who flocked to see them this was to be their very first encounte
 r with modernist architecture\; and Lubetkin's zoos are in fact a signific
 ant milestone for the movement\, built at a time when the works of the mod
 ernist mainstream centred in Paris remained for the most part on the drawi
 ng board.\n\nThese classic works of modernism are to be examined in the ne
 w context provided by the pioneering theoretical work that has been done o
 n the significance of the "Animal" in the history of European Rationalism 
 - a project initiated by Derrida.\n\nThis talk considers how Lubtekin's Ca
 rtesian geometries create the illusion of free circulation even as they po
 lice the boundary between the human and the animal - a boundary that is sh
 own to have become increasingly fraught over the course of the inter-war p
 eriod - menaced by the apes that Lubetkin had placed in what may be Englan
 d's first "House of Light".
LOCATION:The Bar\, Queens' College (note change of venue)
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