Andreas Kalpakci

Fields of Expertise

Biography

I am researching the history of the mutual influence of Architecture and International Organization during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.

My current project is a doctoral dissertation on the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM), their role in the institutional change of the postwar period, and their position in the field of international organizations. Through archival research, I have examined the relationships of CIAM with multiple organizations, from Paul Otlet's Mundaneum in the late 1920s on the project of organizing architecture internationally, to the UNESCO in the 1940s and 1950s on the position of Modern Architecture in cultural relations and a world reform of architectural education, and most crucially to the International Union of Architects (UIA) in the 1940s.

Bibliography

(1) Kalpakci, Andreas. “‘Total Environment’ and Its Architectural Consequences: The UIA Seminar on Industrial Architecture, 1960-1968.” In Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980, edited by Akos Moravanszky and Karl Kegler, Vol. 2. Birkhaeuser/De Gruyter Publishers, 2016 (forthcoming) (2) Kalpakci, Andreas. “The Eighth UIA Congress on the Training of the Architect.” In Radical Pedagogies, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Britt Eversole, Ignacio Galàn, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister, and Federica Vannucchi, 2015. http://radical-pedagogies.com/e19-eighth-uia-congress-training-architect/