PennArchitecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia are pleased to announce Architecture Dejeuner, a series of lunch-time seminars exploring spatial politics and research as a form of production. The second event in this series will feature Lindsay Bremner, Professor and Chair of the Architecture program in the Tyler School of Art, Temple University on "Citiness and Literariness," and will take place on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 from 12-2:00pm at Slought Foundation.

In her seminar, Bremner will explore the ways in which cities are conjunctures that can take on properties that correspond to works of literature. Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Amin and Thrift, Benjamin, Blanchot, de Certeau, Danto, Kracauer, Lefebvre, Mbembe and Nuttall, Proust, and Simmel, Bremner will present attendees with a series of urban design conclusions concerning the relationship between the uniqueness of cities and the unparaphraphraseability of literature. This presentation is based on work recently submitted to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2007 for a Doctor of Architecture degree.

Lindsay Bremner is professor and chair of the Architecture program in the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She was formerly a practicing architect and academic in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was the chair of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand. Bremner has published and lectured widely on the transformation of the South African city since the end of apartheid, after serving in public office in metropolitan government in Johannesburg the 1990’s. Her publications include "Thabo Mbeki: The Geography of Exile" (Domus 874), "Reframing Township Space" (Public Culture 16), "Border/Skin" (in Against the Wall, ed. Michael Sorkin) and a book, Johannesburg: One City Colliding Worlds. Her work has been key to the shaping of the exhibit on Johannesburg, curated by Ricky Burdett, for the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lindsay was a Visiting Professor at MIT in 2005.