Martin Centre Seminar Series, 54th Edition: Matthew Blunderfield

this talk was hosted by the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge on the 30th of May 2024
Abstract
This lecture offers a survey of contemporary architecture practices that respond in unexpected ways to the discipline’s social and environmental turn, with a focus on the aesthetic agendas that have emerged in response to mounting unrest and climate breakdown. Far from an objective diagnosis, the lecture will also reflect on its own methodology of research - recorded interviews - and its implications with pedagogy, criticism and cultural production.
Bio
Matthew Blunderfield is a photographer and host of the podcast Scaffold, an interview project that maps the ongoing history of contemporary architecture. His photographs have appeared in the Architect’s Journal, Superposition Magazine and the Architectural Review, and have recently featured in At Home in London: The Mansion Block, a book-length study co-published by the Architecture Foundation and MACK.
Born in Vancouver, Matthew studied English Literature at the University of British Columbia and Architecture at the University of Toronto before completing his RIBA Part III at the Bartlett, UCL. He teaches at the Royal College of Art and is a Producer at the Architecture Foundation.