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Theodore Spyropoulos delivers the lecture “Behavioral Complexity,” addressing: generative and behavior based design; self-aware/ self-assembled systems; participatory / cybernetic frameworks; and mobility prototypes and robotics. Monday, 03/24 at Pratt Institute.

lecture: Theodore SPYROPOULOS (Minimaforms / AADRL), “Behavioral Complexity.”
Monday, 03/24
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

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AA EmTech
critics: Michael WEINSTOCK, George JERONIMIDIS, & Evan GREENBERG.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cagla GURBAY, Yemin MA, Prajish VINAYAK, & Jinjing YU: “Aerodynamic Microclimate” is an investigation into the control of heterogeneous microclimates through wind-driven evolutionary computation process for natural ventilation efficiency by dynamic material system.

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Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) is one of the undisputed masterpieces of 1970s American cinema. . . .

lecture: Mark CAMPBELL & Pier Vittorio AURELI, “A Real Rain.”
Tuesday, 02/11
1.00 p.m. / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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During the nineteenth century, a deliberate turn away from ideas of imitation and truth-to-nature towards concepts of abstraction or objectivity emerged and fundamentally altered the knowledge and practices of many disciplines. . . .

symposium: “Type vs. Typology.”
Friday, 02/07
10.00 a.m. (start) / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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When we talk of motion within architecture we not only refer to buildings and their potential effects, but also to shifts or twists in the integrated practice of the profession.

lecture: Ben van BERKEL, “Motion Matters.”
Thursday, 02/06
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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The Generic Sublime takes the project of the skyscraper to a new level of architectural megalomania: to organize the territory through its assimilation in the synthetic field of competition and synergy of a single complex building.

lecture: Ciro NAJLE, “The Generic Sublime.”
Monday, 02/03
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critics: Theodore SPYROPOULOS (Studio Tutor); Shajay BHOOSHAN, Mustafa EL SAYED, & Manuel JIMÉNEZ GARCIA (Tech Support); Alisa ANDRASEK, Robert STUART-SMITH, Patrik SCHUMACHER, & Theodore SPYROPOULOS (Master Tutors).

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

rub-a-dub (Apostolos DESPOTIDIS, Rodrigo CHAIN, Sebastian ANDIA, & Thomas T. JENSEN): Space Oddity is a research project that was undertaken from september 2010 to January 2012 at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL).

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AA Visting School Jordan 2013
director: Riyad JOUCKA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AAVS Jordan 2013 (Riyad JOUCKA, director): AA Visiting School Jordan 2013 was an intensive research program dedicated to the mimicry of natural formations evident in desert ecologies.

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Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critic: Theodore SPYROPOULOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

26° (Christian ERL, Foteini KONTOLEON, Vineet VORA, & Liqun ZHAO): Rheo is a material deposition research project that is aimed at creating a dynamic prototypical space framing system.

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Let us hope that from time to time the individual will give a little humanity to the masses, who one day will repay him with compound interest. — Walter BENJAMIN, “Experience and Poverty,” 1933.

Abstraction addresses the process of removal in order to reach the essential datum of things. In a design world increasingly dominated by organic and redundant forms, abstraction is likely to be one of the most unpopular concepts in the field of architectural theory.

lecture: Pier Vittorio AURELI, “A Brief History of Abstraction in Architecture: Design and the Administration of Life.”
Wednesday, 10/16
1.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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