'Further Reading Required' conference

Further Reading Required: Building specifications, contracts and technical literature

Tilo Amhoff, in collaboration with Dr Katie Lloyd Thomas and Nick Beech, organised the 8thArchitecture&: Interdisciplinary Seminar at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Further Reading Required opens a discussion about why we might turn to building specifications,contracts, and technical literature with researchers in architectural history and theory, buildingconstruction, law, and literature, and with architectural practitioners interested in the effects ofworking within this framework and in finding openings for its subversion.Further Reading Required asks how we understand the meaning and value of these documents andwhat approaches we might take in reading them. What social, material, and discursive histories aremade available through these documents? How might we read them not merely for themselves oronly for their technical contents, but as historical documents of specific processes, the specificationof labour and materials, particular social and material relations, technological developments, orconcepts of material and matter? To what extent can these documents offer openings for researchthat addresses questions that might otherwise remain underexplored?Thursday 17 February 2011, 9:30am to 6:30pm, Room G01, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCLAll welcome but booking is essential. Please contact architectural.research@ucl.ac.uk to register.For more information: Download Poster