Blue Lecture Series - Thomas Burlon

The lecture series BLUE LECTURE SERIES was prepared by the Department of Architecture at the VŠVU in the studio of Ján Studený. The live stream will be available on the event's Facebook page. The theme of the BLUE LECTURE SERIES is house concepts. (configurations - processes - compositions - positions - transformations - edges - figures - obscurations - architecture - models). Models are conceptual designs and solutions where we address a broader scope through a single project as an example, often directly not included in the assignment. They reveal new positions of architecture, which, although created on commission, are not exclusively intended for itself. A model is an object that mediates our understanding of complex phenomena through their simplification. It is abstract and concrete in one position, both an idea and an object. It represents reality in an indirect way. Certain situations can be understood as model-like, displaying a section of reality and becoming an opportunity for the emergence of a precedent.
The BLUE LECTURE SERIES continues with a lecture by architect and educator Thomas Burlon. The topic of the lecture will be PRACTICING REALITY. The live stream on the event's Facebook page will take place on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 5:00 PM.
Thomas Burlon studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden and RWTH Aachen. From 2011 to 2021, he collaborated with BeL Architects in Cologne and was a partner at the office Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon in Berlin. He now leads his own architectural office schneideroelsen, which he founded in 2013. Thomas Burlon has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various universities and institutions. In 2020, he was a visiting professor at FH Erfurt. Since the winter semester of 2020/2021, he has been serving as a substitute professor for design and construction in an existing context at Hochschule München. In 2019, he led the workshop Curated Decay at KAT VŠVU.