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SPRING 2011
All lectures will take place in the Main Lecture Hall at the School of Architecture in Cambridge at 6:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Admission is free and open to the public.
INSTALLATIONS BY ARCHITECTS - Presented by Sarah Bonnemaison
Thursday July 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Participating architects include: Atelier in Situ, Philip Beesley, Dan Hoffman, Dilller + Scofidio, Marianne Lund, John Hejduk, James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi + Terence van Eslander, Lab(au), Richard Kroeker, Périphériques Architects and more.
Installations by Architects features a collection of the mostsignificant projects from the last twenty-five years by today’s most exciting architects. Projects are grouped under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Architechtural installations that invite the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. These temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers’ experiences of the environment, and engage them around issues in the built environment and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people’s everyday lives.
Installations by Architects aims to sharpen our understanding of the built environment. The exhibition presents printed banners and film projection rather than photographs, drawings, or architectural models.
The book Installations by Architects (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) includes interviews with the project architects and discussions by critics and theorists and will be available for sale at the Gallery.
WINTER 2011 ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES
All lectures will take place in the Main Lecture Hall at the School of Architecture in Cambridge at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
R&SIE (n) FRANCOIS ROCHE LECTURE
Friday February 4 at 6:00 pm
“Ecosophical Apparatuses & Skyzoid Machines”
This is the Keynote Lecture given in conjunction with the Fourth Natures Conference that is being held on Friday, February 4 and Saturday February 5 at the School of Architecture.
additonal information
www.new-territories.com
DAVID GISSEN LECTURE
Thursday February 10 at 6:30 pm
"Groundwork"
David Gissen is Associate Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies and the Coordinator of the history/theory curriculum for architecture at the California College of the Arts. He is the author of Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environment, and editor of the issue of AD Magazine “Territory” and the book Big and Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003). His recent work focuses on developing a novel concept of nature in architectural thought and the parameters for an experimental form of practice in architectural history. He is currently preparing a manuscript — Maintenance Architecture — on architectural environments that emerged during New York City’s so-called “crisis” years.
www.htcexperiments.org
INFRANET LAB / LATERAL OFFICE LECTURE
White / Sheppard / Przybylski
Tuesday February 15 at 6:30 pm
“Next North”
InfraNet Lab is a research collective founded (2008) by Mason White, Neeraj Bhatia, Maya Przybylski, and Lola Sheppard. InfraNet is conducting ground-breaking research at the intersection of architecture, environment, and digital culture. Together with Lateral Office they have authored the prestigious publication Pamphlet Architecture #30, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.
Lateral Office established (2003) by Mason White and Lola Sheppard, is an experimental design practice which whose work exists at the intersection of architecture, landscape and urbanism. The work questions the role of infrastructure and networks within contemporary spatial practice. They were awarded the 2010 Prix de Rome for their research project Emergent North and the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York in 2011.
www.infranetlab.org | www.lateralarch.com
5468796 ARCHITECTS LECTURE
Hurme / Radulovic / Neufeld
Thursday March 17 at 6:30 pm
“In Progress”
Established in 2007, 5468796 is a collaborative studio (1 desk 10 practitioners) which explores through conversation and play, models and mock-ups, drawings and revisions, and a wholehearted commitment to continuous inquiry.
Upon its inception, 5468796 perceived an untapped market potential for innovative, quality design in the conservative context of Winnipeg. Part of our mandate becomes to inspire clients, and promote design with the general public - to overcome the inertia of “this is how it has always been done”. The firm’s collective continues to stand behind an approach that sees great design and innovation being achieved with modest means. Whether engaging a developer, generating a prototype, or mixing and matching housing unit modules, 5468796 feels their greatest contribution is curiosity. Creativity becomes a direct response to client, context, and program.
The firm's innovative output has achieved national and international recognition - including a 2009 Award of Merit from Canadian Architect (You Cube), a 2010 Progressive Architecture Award (BGBX), Architectural Review's Emerging Architect Award (OMS Stage), the 2010 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence (Bloc 10), a Prairie Design Awards (Bohemier Residence), and two Prairie Wood Design Awards (House of Peace and Webster Cottage). 5468796 continues to make design advocacy an ongoing pursuit through critical practice, partnering/hosting of design events, lectures and professorships at the University of Manitoba, and various public engagements.
www.5468796.ca
KARA TAYLOR WOODS ENGINEERS LECTURE
Kanif Kara
Tuesday March 22 @ 6:30 pm
“Architect and Engineer: Twindividuals?”
Professor Hanif Kara is a practising Structural Engineer, the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Creative Engineering at Harvard School of Design and Visiting Professor for Architectural Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
His constructed work is recognised as being linked with the research and education areas of design. He has been teaching at various architectural schools in Britain, Europe and the USA. He co-tutored a Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association in London from 2000 to 2004, acted as a consultant for the Design Research Lab (DRL) for a number of years and was an external examiner from 2005 to 2008.
As Design Director and co-founder of Adams Kara Taylor (AKT) (est 1996), his particular ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative form, material uses, prefabrication, sustainable construction, complex analysis methods have allowed him to work on award-winning, pioneering and unique projects.
His career extends beyond the structural engineering disciplines and led to his appointment as a commissioner for CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment); the first engineer to hold this post for the government watchdog that monitors the quality of design throughout the United Kingdom. In March of 2007 he was appointed as one of 15 members of the Design for London Advisory Group to the Mayor of London. Hanif was selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and served as a project reviewer in 2007 and 2010. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007.
www.akt-uk.com
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2010 LECTURES
All lectures will take place in the Main Lecture Hall at the School of Architecture in Cambridge at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
CARME PINOS LECTURE
Tuesday November 15th at 7:00 pm
Carme Pinos will present "Recent Works". The lecture will take place as a requisite part of Arch 342: Modern Architecture.
SANJIT MANKU LECTURE
Tuesday November 2nd at 6:30 pm
Sanjit Manku will present "Projects and Process". The lecture will take place as a requisite part of Arch 342: Modern Architecture.
SHANGHAI SURPRISE: Innovative Design from the 2010 Shanghai Expo
Friday November 5th at 6:30 pm
Professor Terri Meyer Boake of the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo will present images of the extraordinary pavilion design of the Shanghai Expo.
If you missed this lecture, download a copy of the slideshow! The presentation is 80MB and needs Quicktime to run. There is no audio.
SNØHETTA WORKS Lecture
Thursday July 15th at 6:30 pm
Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverside and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture present Jenny B. Osuldsen, partner, Snøhetta -- Oslo, Norway
Main Lecture Hall, Waterloo Architecture Cambridge, 7 Melville Street South, Cambridge.
At Snøhetta, landscape and architecture have developed into a single idea creating a new and emerging spirit for architectural practices worldwide. This equitable approach, which has grown to include interior and furniture design, has allowed Snøhetta to develop a unique focus that both respects and illuminates the often unseen characteristics of context and program. Since winning the well publicized international competition for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt in 1989, Snøhetta has continued to establish a global reputation for creating important and high quality designs with integrity and timeless character.
Jenny B. Osuldsen, is a landscape architect educated in Norway and the US. She has been working at Snøhetta since 1995 and became a partner in 2006.
The full colour monograph, SNØHETTA WORKS accompanies the exhibition and is available for sale at the gallery.
2010 WINTER TERM ARRISCRAFT LECTURES
All lectures will take place in the Main Lecture Hall at the School of Architecture in Cambridge at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
MITCHELL JOACHIM - Terreform ONE, New York City
January 21, 2010 - 6:30pm
‘Future Carborexic Cities’
www.terreform.org
Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Terreform ONE and Terrefuge. He earned; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. Dr. Joachim is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To". Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell as an agent of change in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America". He was selected to be the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the Unversity of Toronto for 2010. Mitchell has also won the 2010 TED Fellowship.
JOHN MCMORROUGH - Knowlton School of Architecture
OSU, Columbus, OH
January 28, 2010 - 6:30pm
"Afterlife"
John McMorrough is a principal architect in the firm studioAPT (Architecture Practice Theory), a researcher, and an associate professor at the Ohio State University (where he is also head of architecture section). He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas, a Master of Architecture (with distinction) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University, where his doctoral research work focused on the interplay between commodity and media in post-war architectural discourse. His current writings include treatments on pedestrian malls, electronic architectures, supergraphics, post-modernism and contemporary design. McMorrough has taught theory and design at the Yale School of Architecture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He has worked for design offices in Kansas City, New York, Boston and Rotterdam.
KELLY SHANNON, KUL - KU Leuven, Belgium
February 2, 2010 - 6:30pm
'The Necessity of Urban Design'
Kelly Shannon, is Professor of Landscape Urbanism at KU Leuven (Belgium).Shannon She received her first professional degree of architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University (1988) and second professional degree from the Berlage Institute (1994). She is a registered architect in New York and has worked in several international offices including Mitchell Giurgola Architects (New York), Hunt Thompson (London), Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Genoa), Gigantes Zenghelis Architects (Athens). In 2004, she obtained her PhD, ‘Rhetorics & Realities, Addressing Landscape Urbanism, Three Cities in Vietnam,’ from the University of Leuven. She writes for a number of European magazines and regularly participates in international design competitions. She is co-editor (with Bruno De Meulder) of Explorations of/ in Urbanism and Urban Fascicles OSA, two book series published with SUN (Amsterdam) and co-authored The Contemporary Landscape of Infrastructure (with Marcel Smets, published in 2010 by NaI (Rotterdam)). Her research is at the intersection of urban analysis, mapping and new cartographies, design and landscape urbanism. Most of her work has focused on the evolving relation of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization in South and Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India). A particular interested has focused development of landscape urbanism strategies that work with water and topography.
DAVID GISSEN - California College of the Arts, San Francisco
February 25, 2010 - 6:30pm
"Subnatural Histories"
David Gissen is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism. He is the author of the book Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), editor of Territory (AD, Wiley, 2010),
and editor of Big and Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) as well as numerous articles on architecture, urban nature, and the history of architectural and urban theory.
He is assistant professor of architecture at the California College of Arts, San Francisco.
LIUS CALLEJAS - Paisajes Emergentes, Medellin, Colombia
March 11, 2010 - 6:30pm
"Projects, Competitions and Methods"
Paisajes Emergentes is an architecture and landscape design studio based in Medellín Colombia, founded in 2007 by architects Edgar Mazo, Sebastian Mejia and Luis Callejas.
The practice tries to establish a constant and reciprocal dialogue between art and architecture, primarily through environmental operations. Their work focuses on public space projects in Colombia and abroad. They have won numerous prizes in international competitions, amongst others, first prize the renovation of the ‘El Campin’ Stadium in Bogota, and the Aquatic Centre for the South American Games in Medellin.
They have lectured at Harvard University, Arizona State University, UPC Lima, Peru, in Medellín and Bogotá.
NEIL SPILLER - Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
March 18, 2010 - 6:30pm
“Communicating Vessels”
Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and a practising architect. He is the Graduate Director of Design, Director of the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group (AVATAR) and Vice Dean at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. He is author of the book ‘Digital Dreams- Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies’(1998). He is co-editor of AD ‘Architects in Cyberspace’ (1995), guest-editor of AD ‘Integrating Architecture’ (1996), AD’ Architects in Cyberspace II’ (1998) and AD ‘Young Blood’ (2001) and formally editor of ‘Building Design Interactive’ magazine. He is co-editor with Peter Cook of ’The Power of Contemporary Architecture (1999) and the ‘Paradox of Contemporary Architecture’ (2001). His monograph ‘Maverick Deviations’ was published by Wiley in 2000 and his book ‘Lost Architecture’ about architectural projects of the last two decades of the twentieth Century was published by Wiley in 2001. He was also one of the ten international critics featured in the Phaidon book 10x10. He is also the Editor of ‘Cyberreader’ for Phaidon published in March 2002. Also he has guest-edited a further edition of AD entitled ‘Reflexive Architecture’ published in May 2002. His book ‘Visionary Architecture- Blueprints of the Modern Imagination’ was published by Thames and Hudson in November 2006 and his ‘Digital Architecture NOW’ a compendium of contemporary digital architectural practice was published by Thames and Hudson in November 2008. His “Spiller’s Bits” articles appear in every AD Magazine.
He was the 2002 John and Magda McHale Research Fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
For the last ten years has been working on a major theoretical project entitled “Communicating Vessels” which now consists of hundreds of drawings and many, many thousands of words. The “Communicating Vessels” project seeks to create new relationships between architecture, landscape, space, time, duration and geography. These landscape pieces and their relationship to one another are highly ‘Pataphysical, their logistics of form are conditioned by notions of variance, alliance and deviance. Such ideas produce a very rich formal and Surreal architectural language bursting with potential. He lectures around the world and his work has been exhibited and published worldwide.
