Discover the lecture of Ita Heinze-Greenberg, architectural historian and former professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and author of several publications on 19th and 20th century architecture, but she has also written on nation building, identity building, migration studies and the work of Erich Mendelsohn.

Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) was an extremely successful and internationally active architect, but he remains one of the greatest unknowns. After his flight from Germany in 1933, he was confronted with completely new building tasks in different social and cultural environments: in London, Jerusalem and San Francisco. Everywhere he left traces of his distinctive architecture. For Mendelsohn, architecture did not emerge as an abstract intellectual play of thoughts and forms, but in a complex context of factors and situations. His architecture was always relational. 

The lecture will focus on the relationships between form and material, music and architecture, space and time, home and exile, West and East, internationalism and regionalism.

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England

Sketch for Schocken department store Stuttgart, Germany

Sketch for the Einstein Tower, Potsdam, Germany

Friday 4 November at 12:30,
📍ULB Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta – Auditoire Victor Bourgeois
Reading in English – Open event