Research activities

Conferences

• Szacka, L.-C., Poster presentation, Narrative Spaces, School of Museum Studies, Leicester University, Leicester, UK,  20-22/04/2010
• Szacka, L.-C., Poster presentation ‘Constructing Knowledge: The Case of the Architectural Exhibition’, Constructing Knowledge / Das Wissen der Architektur, RWTH Aachen/Germany Conference, 5-6/11/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘The Architect as Performer: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale’, Starting From Venice Study Day, Università IUAV di Venezia, Facoltà di Design e Arti Unità di recerca ‘Venice Biennale Study Group’ in collaboration with SIK_ISEA Research Promotion Programme ‘Towards a Comparative and Transnational Art History of Modernity’, Italy, 05/10/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Post-Modern Street for the Display of Architecture’, Writing Design Conference, Design History Society, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK, 05/09/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A New Street for the Display of Architecture’, Annual conference of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS), St John’s University, New York, USA, 10/05/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘The Architectural Exhibition: A Historical Enquiry / The First International Architectural Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Presentation of PhD Research project at the Bartlett’, Séminaire du groupe de recherche L.e.a.p., Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 04/05/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Post-Modern Street for the Display of Architecture’, PhD Research Project 2009, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, UK, 03/03/2009
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A New Street for the Display of Architecture’, 5th Annual Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Research Student Symposium, Leceister School of Architecture, De Montfort Univerity, Leicester, UK, 03/12/2008
• Szacka, L.-C., ‘The Architectural Event: The Birth of the Venice Architecture Biennale’, London Festival of Architecture 2008, London, UK, 04/07/2008
• Szcaka, L.-C. ‘The Architectural Public Sphere’, Telling Places Conference : Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture, University College London, London, UK, 4-5/12/2008.
• Chupin JP, Bilodeau D, Szacka C, ‘L.e.a.p., la base de données des concours canadiens d’architecture et d’urbanisme’, Conference, Séminaires Chantiers, Université de Montréal, Montréal, 12/2003.
• Szacka, C, ‘L’Architecture espagnole’, Université du troisième âge (Faculté de l’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke), 20/04/2006.

Publications (with peer reviewed)

• Szacka, L.-C. ‘1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A Post-Modern Street for the Display of Architecture’, PhD Research Project 2009, the Bartlett School of Architecture, 2009.
• Szacka, L.-C. ‘The Architectural Public Sphere’, Multi: The journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design, Vol. 2 no. 1 (2008), Rochester Institute of Technology.

(http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/multi/issue/view/21/showToc)

• Szacka, L.-C. ‘London Festival of Architecture 2008 : A Q&A with Peter Murray, Chairman of the Event’, Opticon 1826 (Uiveristy College London’s Academic Journal), issue no. 5, Automne 2008.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/opticon1826/archive/Issue5

Publications participation

• ‘Concours d’architecture et médias/ Architectural Competitions and the Media’ in Adamczyk G, Bilodeau D, Choko Marc H., Chupin, J, Lachapelle J, Szacka C, Architectural competitions & Territorial imagination : Cultural projects in Québec 1991-2005, Montréal, Centre de design de l’UQAM, 2006, 303p. Coordination of a special issue (to be published in august 2006) of the magazine ARQ, Architecture Québec. Ferré A, Hwang I, Kubo M, Prat R, Sakamoto T, Salazar J, Szacka C, Tetas A, Verb Connection, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 257 p.
• Kubo M, Prat R, Seattle Public Library OMA Rem Koolhaas/LMN, Barcelone, Actar, 2005. (compilation of text articles)
• Prat R, On Barcelona, Barcelone, Ajuntament de Barcelona et Actar, 2005, 324 p. (collaboration)
• Picon A, ‘L’architecture et le virtuel : vers une nouvelle matérialité’, dans Chupin, JP Simmonet C, Le projet tectonique, Genève, Éditions In Folio, 2005, (English to French translation, article by professor A. Picon, Harvard)

Research Projetcs

• The development of learning capsules in the history and theory of architecture. Project manager: Dr Irena Murray, RIBA British Architectural Library (BAL) and Professor John McKean, University of Brighton (UoB)Univerity of Brighton, September 2007 to September 2008.
• Exhibition Nouveaux territoires culturels: Paysage, mémoire et espace public dans les concours d’architecture au Québec 1991-2004/ New cultural territories: Landscape, memory and public spaces in Quebec architectural competitions from 1991 to 2004, Curator Denis Bilodeau (Ph.D.) associate professor, Université de Montréal, Montréal, April 2005 to August 2006
• Key technical organizer of the Architecture, Philosophy and Imagination conference (September 30thOctober 1st 2005), Université de Montréal, Montréal, August 2005 to October 2005
• Architectural Exhibitions in Paris, Personnal research project financed by a scholarship from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Paris, May 2006
• Participation (as a research assistant) to the symposium « les entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier », Univeristé de Montréal, Entretiens Jacques Cartier, Lyon, December 2005

Teaching

• Part-time hourly paid lecturer, Architecture studio Year 1, Nottingham Trent University, January to June 2010

• Bartlett Writing and Learning mentor, Centre for advance learning and teaching, University College London, September 2008 to June 2010.
• Invited critic, third year seminar on travel and architecture, Bartlett, UCL, Januatry 2010.
• Invited critic, project X presentation, Bartlett, UCL November 2008.
• Marking, Analyse de l’architecture contemporaine ARC6822 – Fall 2003
• Marking, Études avancées en architecture ARC6854 – Fall 2004