Architecture Symposium Set at Marywood, March 27-29

Marywood University’s School of Architecture is holding a multi-day conference, March 27-29, Frascari Symposium VII - Melancholy: Embodiments in Architecture, which will explore the theories of Italian architect/architectural theorist Marco Frascari.

Frascari draw inspiration from Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer’s engravings of Melancholy, Knight Death and the Devil, and St. Jerome in his Study, which act as symbolic representations of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual, respectively. In his Monsters of Architecture: Anthropomorphism in Architectural Theory (1991), Frascari seeks “the melancholic reader” as the one who “uses bodily and corporal tropes as key images of the essence of architecture. Just as we think architecture with our bodies, we think our bodies through architecture.”

The symposium will begin with two exhibit openings—LTL’s Biogenic House Sections in the Hawk Gallery and Melancholic Drawings in the Pool Gallery—followed by two days of topical presentations.

Events include the following:

Thursday, March 27, 2025:

• Exhibition Opening, Pool Gallery, School of Architecture, 5:00 PM

Friday, March 28, 2025:

• Session One: FLESH, Gallery, School of Architecture, 10 – 11:30 AM
• Session Two: GEOMETRY, Gallery, School of Architecture, 1 – 2:30 PM
• Session Three: SHADOW, Gallery, School of Architecture, 3 – 4:30 PM
• Paul Emmons, Keynote Speaker Presentation, Auditorium, School of Architecture, 5 PM

Saturday, March 29, 2025:

• Session One: FLESH, Gallery, School of Architecture, 10 – 11:30 AM
• Session Two: GEOMETRY, Gallery, School of Architecture, 1 – 2:30 PM
• Session Three: SHADOW, Gallery, School of Architecture, 3 – 4:30 PM
• David Lewis, Keynote Speaker Presentation, Auditorium, School of Architecture, 5 PM

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