Thomas Weaver, writer, editor and visiting professor of architecture criticism at the Academy of Architecture, the University of Italian Switzerland and Princeton University, is presenting a conference in English at FAUP to discuss architecture's long, albeit sometimes tense, relationship with writing.

The session, organised as part of the ‘Fishing Architecture’ project, coordinated by researcher André Tavares and underway at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies, will analyse the rare cases in which architectural writing has proved evocative and inspiring, but also some of its less auspicious literary moments. The lecture will also discuss the relevance of the essay in relation to the monograph or manifesto, with reference to recent publishing projects that seek to make architectural writing as significant as its forms.

Thomas Weaver is a writer, editor and visiting professor of architecture criticism at the Accademia d'architettura in Mendrisio and at Princeton University. He was editor of the Architectural Association's AA Files magazine, and senior commissioning editor for art and architecture at MIT Press. He is the author of several books and numerous published talks, and co-directs with Françoise Fromonot the new architectural mystery series Gumshoe, published by Park Books.

'Fishing Architecture' is a research project by the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP), funded by the European Research Council, which will trace an ecological history of North Atlantic architecture from cod, sardines and tuna, in case studies in the United States, Canada, Iceland, England, Norway, France and Portugal.

Admission is free (subject to capacity).
The conference will be in English, without translation.
The programme is subject to change (without prior notice).
This event may be recorded and publicised by FAUP through photography and video.