cv szacka - Léa-Catherine Szacka

Léa-Catherine Szacka
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies
Maridalsveien 29, 0175 Oslo, Norway / 1 Place Robert Desnos, 75010 Paris, France
+33.6.48.42.29.30
[email protected] / www.leacatherineszacka.com
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EDUCATION
2006-2011
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
PhD in History and Theory of Architecture (defence: December 2011)
“Exhibiting the Postmodern: Three Narratives for a History of the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale”
Advisor: Adrian Forty // Examiners: Jean-Louis Cohen and Andrew Higgott
2002-2005
École d’Architecture, Université de Montréal
Master in Architecture, (M. Arch.) - Architectural Design (2005)
1999-2002
École d’Architecture, Université de Montréal (et Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia - IUAV)
Baccalauréat ès sciences (B.Sc.) – Architecture (2002)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern and contemporary history and theory of architecture / 20th Century
History of architectural exhibitions / History of architectural representation
History and theory of postmodern architecture architecture (particularly Italy, France & USA)
Alternative research methodologies (oral and micro histories)
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TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2013-2015
2012–2013
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2011-2014
2009
2008-2010
2003-2005
2003-2006
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Oslo Centre for Critical Architecture Studies (OCCAS), Institute for Form, Theory and
History, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Norway
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Laboratoire d’Excellence Création, Arts et Patrimoine (Labex Cap) affiliated with le Centre
Pompidou et le GERPHAU ENSA Paris-LaVillette
Enseignante Vacataire at ENSA Paris-Malaquais
Course: Histoire de l’art : avant-gardes et modernité (TD assisting Carlotta Daro)
Enseignante Vacataire at ENSA Paris-LaVillette
Course: Histoire de l’architecture et de la ville : « Paris : la culture urbaine de l’architecte » (TD)
Enseignante Vacataire at Manufacture Haute Ecole de Théâtre de Suisse Romande
Course: Fiction in Stone
Enseignante Vacataire at ENSA Versailles
Course: Histoire et théorie moderne et contemporaine de l'architecture, de la ville et des territoires Part-time lecturer, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University Course: Design
Studio (Year 1)
Writing and learning mentor, Centre for Advance Learning and Teaching, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College
London
Teaching assistant, École d’architecture, Université de Montréal
Courses: Analyse de l’architecture contemporaine et Études avancées en architecture
Research assistant, Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle, Université de Montréal
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
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• Travel grant, EAHN for attending EAHN’s Second International conference in Brussels (2012)
• Research Trust Award, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), “Display & Debate: An Oral History of the 1976 Europa/America show
at the Venice Biennale” (2011)
• Bourse « Histoire des expositions », Centre Pompidou (2011)
• Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship, British School at Rome (BSR), Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA),“Roma Interrotta - A
Comparative Historical Analysis of the18th Century Urban Project on Display ” (2010)
• Research grant Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), for one month fellowship at the CCA (2010)
• J.B.C Watkins Award, The Canada Council for the Arts (2008 & 2010)
• Architectural Research Funds (ARF), Bartlett School of Architecture (2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007)
• Central Research Fund (CRF), University of London, for research trip (2008)
• Scholarship, London Goodenough Association of Canada (LGAC) (2007)
• Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2006)
• Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS), University College London (2006)
• Bourse de recherche André Francou, Institut Royal d’Architecture du Canada (IRAC) (2005)
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PUBLICATIONS (selection)
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• Szacka L.-C., “Debates on Display: E-A at the 1976 Biennale” in Arrhenius, T. Lending M., Miller W., and McGowan J., Place and
Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture, Lars Müller publisher, 2014.
• Szacka L.-C. “Biennale de Venise 1976 ou le Mouvement moderne en discussion” in Marnes n.3, 2014.
• Parcolet R. and Szacka L.-C., “Writing Institutional Exhibition History: On the Centre Pompidou’s Catalogue Raisonné’s Project”, Journal
of Curatorial Studies, [forthcoming 2014], (peer reviewed).
• Szacka L.-C., Entries on C. Aymonino, A. Cantafora, Gruppo Metamorph, Studio Labirinto, G. Braghieri and A. Loris Rossi for
Catalogue de la collection d’architecture du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, [forthcoming 2014].
• Parcolet R. and Szacka L.-C., “Écrire l’histoire des expositions » in Culture et Musées n.22 Documenter les collections, cataloguer
l’exposition, Actes Sud, Janvier 2014 (peer reviewed).
• Szacka L.-C., Entries “Montreal” and “the Centre Pompidou of Piano et Rogers” in Architettura del novecento vol. II a cura di Marco
Biraghi e Alberto Ferlenga, Einaudi, Milan, 2013.
• Szacka L.-C. and Waver, T., “Massimo Scolari in conversation with L.-C. Szacka and T. Weaver” in AA Files 65, 2012.
• Szacka, L.-C., “Architectural Self-Portrait at the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Representational Turn in Architecture?” in OASE
#88 - Staging Architecture: The exhibition as Site of Production, Rotterdam, November 2012.
• Height entries in Architectures italiennes, 1965-1985. Autour de la Tendenza, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012.
• Szacka, L.-C., “The Presence of the Past – First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale” in Postmodernism: Style
and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011.
• Szacka, L.-C., “Showing Architecture Through Exhibitions: A Taxonomical Analysis applied to the case of the first Venice Architecture
Biennale” in G. Maffei (Ed.) Design Writing: Words and Objects, Berg Publisher, London, 2011.
• Szacka, L.-C., “The Architect as Performer? On the Interdisciplinary nature of the Venice Biennale” in Clarissa Ricci (Ed.) Starting from
Venice, Et al edition, Milan, 2011.
• Szacka, L.-C., “A Conversation with Vittorio Gregotti”, in LOG 20, Curating Architecture, New York, Fall 2010.
• Biographical entries and editing (with Eva Branscome) of Jencks, C. The Post-Modern Reader, Wiley, London, 2010 (in collaboration
with Charles Jencks and Helen Castel at Wiley).
• Szacka, L.-C., “1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Post-Modern Street for the Display of Architecture”, in PhD Research Project
2009, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, 2009.
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CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIA PAPERS (selection)
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• “Exhibiting Ideologies: Architecture at the Venice Biennale 1968-1980”, Architecture on Display – The mobile Arrangement of the
Immobile symposium, DAM, Frankfurt, 14-15/11/2013 (invited).
• “Exhibiting Ideologies: Architecture at the Venice Biennale 1968-1980”, Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox? symposium, Yale University
school of architecture (YSoA), New Heaven, 03-05/10/2013 (invited).
• “Trace d’une absence: Architecture éphémère et photographie”, Les Archives Photographiques d’exposition, Centre Pompidou/INHA,
17-18/10/2013 (invited).
• “The 1976 Venice Biennale and the Demise of the Modern Movement”, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture Symposium,
The National Museum, Oslo, 25-27/04/2013 (invited).
• “Writing Institutional Exhibition History: On the Centre Pompidou’s ‘Catalogue raisonné’ project”, 39th Annual Association of Art
Historians Conference and Book fair, Reading, 11-13/04/2013.
• “Elective affinities at the 1976 Venice Biennale: the case of the Europa/America debate”, EAHN Architectural Elective Affinities:
Correspondences, Transfers, University of São Paulo, 20-23/03/2013.
• “This is Not a Model: Revisiting the Strada Novissima”, European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Second International Meeting,
Brussels, 31/05-03/06/2012.
• “Roma Interrotta 1978-2010: a retrospective historical analysis”, The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome, Warwick
University, 26/11/2011.
• “Exhibiting the Post-Modern : Three Narratives for a History of the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale”, PhD seminar presentation,
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, 19/07/2010.
• “The Architect as Performer: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale”, Starting From Venice Study Day, Università IUAV di Venezia,
05/10/2009.
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OTHER EXPERIENCES & PROJECTS
2014
2014
2008-2010
2004
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LANGUAGES
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w/ Stéphanie Dadour, Co-organiser, Exhibiting Architecture, International symposium, Centre Pompidou (and co-editor of
special issue of Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, (forthcoming, fall 2014)
w/ Véronique Patteeuw, Co-chair, Session “The Medium is the Message: The Role of Exhibitions and Periodicals in Critically Shaping Postmodern Architecture”, 67th SAH Conference and 3rd EAHN conference.
Curatorial research assistant, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Intern and junior editor, Actar publisher, Barcelona, Spain.
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French (native); English (advanced reading, writing and speaking), Italian (advanced reading, and speaking, beginner writing) and Spanish
(intermediate reading and speaking, beginner writing)