Lunch lecture: Fishing Architecture. The Ecological Continuum between Buildings and Fish Species

On Friday, March 22nd, the architect André Tavares will give a lecture at UW's weekly lunch lecture about what extent fish can produce architecture? This lecture sets out to trace a socioecological history of North Atlantic architecture in relation to fisheries, exploring the relationships between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes and assessing the ecological impact of fishing constructions and the natural resources they depend upon. The talk will be in English. It takes place at the second floor at the cafeteria and starts at 12:10 and finishes at 13:00. It is also possible to attend via zoom, the link can be found here: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/6994747

In the evening, at 4pm, there will be an open presentation and public discussion of the workshop Cod, Construction and Communities, Tracing Ísafjörður’s Ecologies from an Architectural Perspective, conducted by the Fishing Architecture team in collaboration with the University Centre of the Westfjords. The research is funded by the European Union.

André Tavares is an architect, researcher at Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto where he leads the project Fishing Architecture. He was chief cocurator of the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Form of Form, and author of books such as The Anatomy of the Architectural Book (Lars Müller/CCA, 2016) and Vitruvius Without Text (gta Verlag, 2022) and the forthcoming Architecture Follows Fish (MIT Press, 2024).