UT School of Architecture Spring 2021 Lecture Series: "Good, Well and Better” with Piergianna Mazzocca

Piergianna Mazzocca is a Venezuelan architect, researcher and educator. Her research interests expand on the medicalization of architecture through the study of both domestic and medical typologies and the formation of architectural knowledge through its relationship with medical sciences and biopolitics. She was the 2017–2019 Wortham Fellow at Rice University and is currently the Emerging Scholar in Design at The University of Texas at Austin. In her lecture “Good, Well and Better,” Mazzocca will unpack how concepts of health are ingrained in the ways that architectural knowledge is produced and reproduced, practiced and theorized, and what new pedagogies for architectural education can emerge when the concepts, norms and practices that have been rendered invisible by the assumption that health is a monolithic universal good are questioned.

This event is a part of the Spring 2021 Lecture Series presented by the UT School of Architecture.