troy NEW YORK

Jorge Silvetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received his diploma in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires. He continued studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Master of Architecture degree and pursuing post graduate work in the area of architectural theory and criticism. Mr. Silvetti’s architectural practice, Machado and Silvetti Associates, was formed with Rodolfo Machado in 1974.

Jorge SILVETTI
, “Recent Work”
Moday, 04/15
6.00 pm / EMPAC, theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

london UNITED KINGDOM

Gilles Retsin will present an Object-Oriented project for computational design and architecture, inpsired by the work of Graham Harman, Levi Bryant and Ian Bogost. Previous traces of OO within architecture and theory will be uncovered, from Christopher Alexander to materialist and marxist thinking of for example, Walter Benjamin. The lecture will develop an argument of OO as an emerging paradigm, based in the hacker-mentality of a new, heterogenious and extremely diverse generation of upcoming architects and designers which use digital methodologies at the core of their work—but in often unorthodox ways.

lecture: Gilles RETSIN
Friday, 04/12
6.00pm / Docklands Campus, AVA building
University of East-London

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Zoe Coombes will speak about her experiences working in the world of contemporary furniture design. Reflecting on both the rate of change within digitized production, and the all-too-contemporary question of how best to learn from the past, Zoe’s talk will pose questions about the future of utility and desire in a robotized age.

Zoe COOMBES, “Forged by Numbers”
Friday, 04/12
12.30pm / MIT Department of Architecture
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

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seoul KOREA & hong kong CHINA
A display landscape///
The ‘Shop in Shop’ concept for Neil Barrett is based on a singular, cohesive project that is divided into sixteen separate pieces. Specifi c pieces have then been selected and installed into each of the four Neil Barrett Shop in Shop’s in Seoul, and also into the Hong Kong shop; creating a unique display landscape within each store. Each separate element acts a as piece in a puzzle of the original ensemble, ensuring each shop maintains a relationship to the defi ned whole and with the other Neil Barrett Shop In Shop locations.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches Philosophy at the University College of Södertörn, and Architectural Theory at Royal Institutute of Technology, both in Stockholm. He is the editor-in-chief of SITE (www.sitemagazine.net), the author of Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture (Forum Project Publications), several books and essays on contemporary art, philosophy, and aesthetics, and the translator of works by Kant, Frege, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze.

Sven-Olov WALLENSTEIN

, “Architecture and the Possibility of Critical Theory”
Thursday, 04/11
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Professor Mark Burry is the founding Director of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s Design Research Institute (DRI). DRI positions design research’s role as an explorer and tester of design options focusing on the challenges of urbanization and growing cities of the future. With this urban focus, DRI’s supports three flagships: Future Fabric of Cities, Mediated City, and Urban Technology Nexus. Together these flagships foster and support a transdisciplinary approach to design research at the intersection of design education, research, industry, and practice.

Mark BURRY
Friday, 04/12
4.00–5.00 pm / 
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

berlin GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Martin BÖTTGER (tsaworks): Splitter is an art installation as well as a stage design for the music and integrated arts festival in Winnipeg Canada called “Clusterfestival “. The construction is based on cardboard sharp triangle shapes in combination with a tape design at the edges of the structure in yellow and blue. The structure grows along the ceiling in a dimension of 11m x 4m x 3m.

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buffalo NEW YORK

The Peter Reyner Banham Exhibition hosted by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning presents seven dining chairs by Thomas Kelley. Adapted from John Kassay’s drawings of 18th- and 19th-century Windsor chairs, the built set examines a medley of design what-not-to-do’s. Wrong Chairs pushes the visuality of illusions beyond basic trompe líoeil styling and toward a projective form of vision, or cunning sight, that embraces visual error as both intuition and method.

Thomas KELLEY, “The Peter Reyner Banham Exhibition: Wrong Chairs”
Friday, 04/12 (Opening; exhibition 04/08-05/08)
5.30pm / Hayes Annex A, Room 1
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

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boston MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD

critic: Ben van BERKEL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yaohua WANG: VFX is short for visual effects. VFX industry is in a stage of its middle-age. It is younger than the mature and defined financial industries but older than the pimply and adolescent .com startups. At the moment, the middle-age VFX industry, is facing transitions.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

“Future Cities 2” is an all day event held by the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research) group, a cross-disciplinary, research active architectural design group that examines the impact of emerging technologies on the built environment and wider culture.

“Future Cities 2: Other Worlds,” with 
keynote speaker Greg LYNN & more
Thursday, 04/11
9.45am-6.00pm / Howe Lecture Theatre, Maritime Campus
University of Greenwich
30 Park Row
London, Greenwich SE10 9LS, United Kingdom

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