FRASCARI SYMPOSIA

The seventh Frascari Symposium honors the memory of sidereal architect, theorist, and educator Marco Frascari (1945–2013). The symposium gathers together architectural dreamers, storytellers, and critics to weave their tallest tales in the Vichian tradition as interpreted and represented in architectural theories and histories recounted by Frascari, the “Traumarbeiter” himself. (http://www.marcofrascaridreamhouse.com)

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The first Frascari Symposium, on the topic of “Towards a Critical Phenomenology,” was hosted at The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism of Carleton University in 2013. It was recorded in the publication: A Carefully Folded Ham Sandwich, edited by Roger Connah. One year later, following Frascari’s death, the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) of Virginia Tech held the second Frascari Symposium titled “Confabulations: storytelling in architecture,” which was also a solemn reunion of friends and family, students and colleagues. An anthology under the same name as the conference is forthcoming from Routledge, edited by Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein and Carolina Dayer. Subsequent symposia (listed below) were held roughly every two years. In the practice of Plato’s Symposium, we gather to chew on a topic and to digest one another’s points of view with a hefty dose of merriment and conviviality.