Recently, the Süddeutsche Zeitung confirmed that architecture produces "the dominant image currency of our times". Does the image of the iconic building feed off itself? Is it replaced by its image? The nascent science of iconography, which has grown out of the acceleration of the use of image in the digital media landscape, assumes that images themselves have become a kind of thinking mode. What does that mean for architecture? Andreas Beyer, art historian from Basle, talks about the past and the future of building images; about the "iconic" and graphic nature of architecture; about the power of images and images of power.


Date: Wednesday 1 October 2008, 20:00 hours
Place: aac Planckstrasse 13, Hamburg-Altona
Moderator: Joachim Otte (aac Head of Programmes)



Andreas Beyer
Was Professor of Art History at RWTH Aachen from 1997 to 2003 where - inspired by the close proximity to the architectural faculty - he increasingly specialised in the image character of architecture. He taught art history at Basle University.