Enseignante-chercheure (Lecturer), Architecte DPLG (March), Doctorat en esthetique (PhD in aesthetics).
Laurence Kimmel est enseignante-chercheure à la Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales (UNSW) à Sydney depuis Juin 2015.
Laurence Kimmel is a Lecture in the Faculty of Built Environment of UNSW Sydney since June 2015. She is an architect with an MArch from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon (1998) and a PhD in aesthetics from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (2006).
Her main research interest revolves around a number of theoretical ideas and practice interventions. These include:
– the idea of ‘architecture as landscape’ I did write a book about: constructive experience of architectures that are open towards the landscape (for example Álvaro Siza’s swimming pool in Leça da Palmeira);
– ‘critical practice’: interior architects, architects and urban planners that use the thinking tools of art to underpin their practice. Álvaro Siza is one example; Critical use of kitsch in architecture by Rem Koolhaas is another example; Work on Prasad Shetty and Rupali Gupte is ongoing. This can lead to ‘radical’ but constructive positioning: she is investigating on the construction of a plastic language in art works and architectures based on radical aesthetics (for example Brazilian brutalist architecture). Two upcoming exhibition projects relate to ‘radical’ positioning in art, interior architecture and architecture.
The objects of research range through different countries (e.g. France, Germany and Brazil) and across different areas (architecture, interior architecture, art, landscape). She did work on a book about Brazilian architecture, and did write a chapter of a book about architecture in Berlin.
She has been curator of contemporary art exhibitions and for the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW did work as a curator for the 2016 Luminocity exhibition.
Bibliographie
December 2018, after peer-review: “The Financial Crisis in Athens: An Empty House as Public Sculpture by Maria Eichhorn”, Kritische Berichte, Germany. (ISSN 0340-7403, (Peer reviewed journal article))
September 2018 “Architectural curation: creating spatial and temporal links between artworks in the gallery space”, Architectural Design research conference, Sydney University (Peer reviewed conference paper)
August 2018 “Stories made spatial”, article and interview about the work of architects Peter Lonergan and Julie Cracknell, in Architecture by Hand and Mind, edited by Xing Ruan and Ainslie Murray (UNSW) (Peer reviewed book chapter)
June 2018 “Transient Computational Designed Boundaries enhancing Creativity in Workplaces”, Proceedings of the EAHN (European Architecture History Network) conference, Tallinn, Estonia (Peer reviewed conference paper)
January 2018 “Possibility of critical practice in computational design: applications on boundaries between public and private space”, online research journal Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine (ISSN 1296-4077, (Peer reviewed journal article)
January 2017 “Gold and kitsch: uses of gold and kitsch in Rem Koolhaas’ Prada foundation in Milan, leading to another vision on Peter Zumthor’s architecture”, Proceedings of the 2016 SAHANZ conference GOLD, 6-9 July 2016, Melbourne, Australia
http://sahanz2016.msd.unimelb.edu.au/papers/SAHANZ-2016-Front-Pages-and-Table-of-Contents.pdf (Peer reviewed conference paper)
April 2015, “The meaning is the use : le geste dans l’oeuvre de Franz Erhard Walther”, in Tufano A. (ed.), Faire des projets, Fabriquer des projets, edn. 1, Presses universitaires de Nancy, Nancy, pp. 71 – 76, http://www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?GCOI=27000100269360&fa=description (Peer reviewed article)
February 2015 “Une constellation d’oeuvres sous le ciel” [“A constellation of artworks under the sky”], Chapter of the book Open Sky Museum, about an open sky museum that has been built near Nantes in 2013 ; under the direction of artist Claire- Jeanne Jézéquel, Editor : Jannink
October 2014 Article in the book « Quand je suis occupée, tout va bien » about the work of artist Véronique Verstraete, Editor : Jannink
September 2014 “Echos et architecture– un parcours non exhaustif à travers l’art et l’architecture : – des années 1920 -30 ; – de 1989 à aujourd’hui” [“Echos and architecture – a non exhaustive walkway through art and architecture : – from the 1920’s and 30’s ; – from 1989 until today”], In the collective book Berlin, edited by David Sanson, musician and journalist ; Editor : Robert Laffont, Paris
September 2014 Article “La mise au carreau du gribouillis” about the work of the painter Geoffroy Gross, art newspaper Laura
April 2014 Article “Le geste appareillé” about the work of artist Marie Reinert, art newspaper Laura
March 2014 “Le terminal portuaire de Yokohama par Foreign Office Architects à la lumière des sciences cognitives – rappels historiques sur la danse et le lien à la structure triangulée chez Rudolf Steiner et Rudolf Laban” [The ferry terminal of Yokohama by Foreign Office Architects, in relation to cognitive sciences – historial remarks on dance and its link to triangular structure in Rudolf Steiner and Rudolf Laban’s works], in Architecture Perception Urbain, InFolio (Proceedings of the symposium Architecture & Perceptions – New perceptive cultures, new planning strategies organised by Xavier Bonnaud and Chris Younes at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, 7 – 8 December 2010 (Peer reviewed article)
October 2013 BRAZIL – Book on Brazilian modern and contemporary architecture, English edition ; Editor : DOM (Philip Meuser), Berlin
June 2013 “Une théorie du pli moderne chez Katarzyna Kobro et Władysław Strzemiński : réminiscences du baroque”, “Le pli originaire chez les avant-gardes et les postmodernes”, “Le pli dans l’architecture d’Álvaro Siza – éclairage par la théorie du pli baroque par Katarzina Kobro et Władysław Strzemiński”, Three articles, Online art newspaper Exporevue
January 2013 “Le couplage horizontalité-verticalité à grande échelle – un équilibre anthropologique ? : le bâtiment CCTV de Rem Koolhaas à Beijing”, in Le Salon n°4 – Questions d’échelles (Revue du Centre de recherche I.D.E.), dirigée par Sally Bonn et Alain Georges Leduc, ÉSAMM (Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine). (Peer reviewed article)
November 2012 “Expanding color”, Article about two exhibitions at Centre d’art La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, online and printed art newpaper La Belle Revue, 2012
November 2012 “Réflexions sur la monumentalité architecturale” (Bâtiment CCTV à Pékin par Rem Koolhaas) [Reflections on architectural monumentality (Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV building in Beijing)] in the research revue Le Salon n°4 – Questions d’échelles (Revue du Centre de recherche I.D.E.), directed by Sally Bonn and Alain Georges Leduc, ÉSAMM (Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine). (Peer reviewed article)
October 2012 “Un bâtiment comme appareil de vision d’une multiplicité d’images-fragments du paysage et de l’histoire de Berlin (Le sens politique de l’ambassade des Pays-Bas à Berlin de Rem Koolhaas)” [A building a visual device for a multiplicity of images as fragments : The political sense of the architecture of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin by Rem Koolhaas], Online research revue “Appareil” [device], directed by Jean-Louis Déotte, Professor in Philosophy at University Paris 8 Saint-Denis. (Peer reviewed article)
December 2011 “Fragilité des architectures ouvertes sur le paysage et développement de nouveaux modèles d’« architecture comme paysage » ” [Fragility of the architecture that is open to the landscape and development of new models of « architecture as landscape »] Online research revue Inplano, directed by Marc-Antoine Durand. http://inplano.net/pdf/01
June 2011 “Ryuji Nakamura : des trames de papier à l’ère des outils numériques” [Ryuji Nakamura : paper grids in the era of numeric tools] In architecture magazine d’A
May 2011 “La perception des sculptures d’Olafur Eliasson comme montage” [Perception of Olafur Eliasson’s sculptures as montage] Proceedings of the Summer School – Cinéma et art contemporain, Université Sorbonne nouvelle Paris 3, 28th June 2010 – 9th July 2010 (Peer reviewed article)
Mai 2011 “Jean-Luc Moulène : vers un dispositif spatial par les images” [Jean-Luc Moulène : toward a spatial dispositive through images] Online revue Renversions, Revue transdisciplinaire revue under the responsability of Véronique Fabbri and Laura Aubert
April 2011 “Le spectre du fragment romantique – sur le travail de l‘artiste Didier Courbot” [Specter of the romantic fragment – about the work of artist Didier Courbot] Linked to the exhibition “Avec le pont vient l’idée de la traversée” [With the bridge comes the idea of the crossing] from the 2nd of February to the 2nd of March 2011 at the art center La Maréchalerie, Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles ; Editions de la Maréchalerie, Versailles.
February 2011 “Les paysages impressionnistes de Philippe Rahm” [Philippe Rahm’s impressionnist landscapes] in the architecture magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui n°381
January 2011 “Une architecture de cadres – sur deux jardins de sculptures de Dani Karavan” [An architecture of frames – About two sculpture gardens by Dani Karavan] in Projets de paysage, Revue en ligne du réseau de chercheurs en paysage Topia, http://www.projetsdepaysage.fr/fr/accueil (Peer reviewed article)
January 2011 “Des architectures qui cadrent le paysage : quel cadre pour les oeuvres ?” (sur le Centre Pompidou Metz) [Architecture framing the landscape: which frame for the art works? (about Centre Pompidou Metz)] in Le Salon n°3 – Musées (Revue of the research center I.D.E., directed by Sally Bonn and Alain Georges Leduc, ÉSAMM Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Metz Métropole). (Peer reviewed article)
November 2010 “De l’objet de design hybride à l’oeuvre comme monde : contemporanéité de l’artificialisation de l’environnement dans l‘oeuvre de Martin Boyce” [From the hybrid design object to the art work as a world: contemporaneity and artificiality in the environment in the work of Martin Boyce] Online proceedings of the symposium “There is no such thing as nature! – Redéfinition et devenir de l’idée de nature dans l’art contemporain”, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, INHA, Paris. http://hicsa.univ-paris1.fr/page.php?r=18&id=415&lang=fr (Peer reviewed article)
September 2010 Publication of the book “L’architecture comme paysage – Álvaro Siza” [Architecture as landscape – Álavaro Siza], Seriez editor: Pétra, Paris. Collection “Esthétiques appliquées”, Directed by Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Professor of philosophy at University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (180 pages – 10 pages graphic folder) (Peer reviewed book)
Actions de recherche
Organisation du séminaire de recherche ‘critical practice’, tous les 3 mois, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney
2019: Comité d’organisation du colloque IDEA, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney
Commissaire d’exposition:
2018 Organisation committee of the “Make known” exhibition, organised by the DO research cluster at UNSW galleries
November 2017 Exhibition of the international research done by members of the DO research cluster, FBE gallery (BERG boxes)
September 2017 Curator of the exhibition “Cut Insight”, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, presenting works by Maxime Thieffine, Sarah Tritz, Eric Stephany, Hany Harmanious, Thomas Cole, Michael Day, Laurence Kimmel. Peer-reviewing in process.
January 2017 Curator of the exhibition “Crossovers”, Tristan Guilloux, Lyon, France, presenting works by Michael Tawa, Vesna Trobec, and Katrina Simon.
September 2016 Curator of the exhibition “Shifting, Drifting, Dribbling”, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, presenting works by Michael Tawa, Vesna Trobec, Samantha Donnelly, Claire-Jeanne Jezequel, Marie Reinert, Geraldine Trubert. Peer-reviewed (Sydney Design week)
September-October 2016 Curator of the students works for Luminocity exhibition, FBE, UNSW. Peer-reviewed (Sydney Design Week)
June – August 2015 Curator of the art exhibition “+/- 4 (Ungefahr Vier)” in the gallery Lage Egal in Berlin, presenting works by Claire-Jeanne Jezequel, Lorraine Pellegrini and Geraldine Trubert.
2013 Publication of the sculpture/architecture project (not realized) “Crockett Street » in Dallas in the newspaper INTER Art actuel.
6-29 mai 2010 Curator of the exhibition « La clarté du labyrinthe” at the gallery Grands bains douches de la Plaine in Marseille, presenting works of artists Jeppe Hein, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Bettina Samson, Pierre Labat, Rémy Rivoire, Stéphanie Nava, and Christine Sibran.