The Yale School of Architecture will host a student-led symposium, "The Market of Effects," exploring the cultural, aesthetic and ethical ramifications of a consumer-driven architecture...
Second-year students in the Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D.) program at Yale have invited graduate and professional school students and researchers from around the country to discuss the state of architecture as its increasing service to commerce diverts its aesthetic mission. The symposium will examine how the built environment, wedded to multi-media technology, becomes effectively a "personalized point of sale" and what this trend says about the aspirations of architecture and signals for its future. The keynote address for the symposium will be delivered by Mark Gottdiener on March 30, 6:30 p.m. Gottdiener is a distinguished professor of sociology at the University of Buffalo and the author of the groundbreaking text on the commercialization of urban space, "The Theming of America: American Dreams, Media Fantasies and Themed Environment." His talk is titled "Foreground/Background: Architecture as Sign and the Culture of Theming." For more information, visit the Yale portal, or the School of Architecture events page.
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