Georges Teyssot is a Professor at Laval University’s School of Architecture in Quebec City (QC, CA). He has previously taught history and theory at the IUAV of Venice (Italy), at Princeton University’s School of Architecture (NJ, USA), and at the GTA in the Department of Architecture at Zurich’s ETH (CH). He was the curator with Diller + Scofidio of an exhibition on The American Lawn at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1998, and has written the introduction to the volume of Diller + Scofidio, Flesh: Architectural Probes (1995, 2011). He is the author of many books, including Die Krankheit des Domizils (1989), The History of Garden Design (1991, 2000), and The American Lawn (1999). More recently, he has published a volume entitled A Topology of Everyday Constellations, in the“Writing Architecture Series” (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013); and a short book on: Walter Benjamin. Les maisons oniriques, (Paris: Hermann, 2013).
Georges Teyssot, “Entropic Landscape” | Amado Building, Lecture Hall 234 – May 23rd 2018, 18:00