new york NEW YORK

“Strange Craft: Summer Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture” with 
Michael YOUNG & Kutan AYATA, 
Rhett RUSSO & Kartin MUELLER RUSSO, David RUY & Karel KLEIN, and Ezio BLASETTI & Danielle WILLEMS
07/08-08/02
Cooper Union
New York, New York 10003

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Since the mid-’90s, architecture has accelerated its move away from the discourse of the architectural object towards the discourse of the architectural field. The vicissitudes of the architectural object has lost its uncanny appeal, and recent work is more often than not circumscribed by the mental image of an underlying network of relations that is deep, dynamic, and more real than the architectural object itself. Like Janus, the transition from object to field has had many faces but has shared a single body moving towards the virtual. This lecture offers reasons for pause in this move toward relationism. . . .

David RUY, “Returning to (Strange) Objects”
intro. by Hernan Diaz ALONSO
Wednesday, 01/30
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

london UNITED KINGDOM

Architecture finds itself coping with new social and cultural complexities that radically re-factor and challenge its response through latent and often unknown parameters. Distinctions between information, matter and life reveal intricacies in the speculative realties of a much deeper synthesis. This symposium will open a discussion on the role of generative and behavioural approaches within the conception and production of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

“Adaptive Ecologies: Notes on a Computational Urbanism”
SPYROPOULOS, SCHUMACHER, RUY, FRAZER, STUART-SMITH, DILLON, & more
Friday, 11/30
10.00am–6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architecture Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

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new york NEW YORK

Just one week left to lend your support to Tarp‘s upcoming issue, “Not Nature.”

“Not Nature” is interested in exploring historical and contemporary architectural positions in regard to natural systems—aesthetic, synthetic, philosophical, autonomous, not autonomous, investigative, social and political. The question is to explore whether architecture can build form without a clear process-based model to replicate. . . . The issue includes major contributors from philosophy and the history of science such as Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, and Peter Galison, writing alongside architectural theorists and practitioners such as Antoine Picon, Catherine Ingraham, Ed Eigen, David Gissen, David Ruy, and many others. Tarp is an annual publication of the Pratt Institute Graduate Arch. & Urban Design program.

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houston TEXAS

Panelists will explore theoretical approaches to digital fabrication and tooling systems, as well as the various implications and practical applications of digital fabrication and their impact on the practice and pedagogy of architecture.

Thursday, 03/29, 7.00pm
Keynote Speaker: Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM; Professor, UCLA A.UD)

Friday, 03/30, 10.00am-5.00pm
Symposium Panelists: Elena Manferdini, David Ruy, Chris Lasch.

Organized by Wendy W. Fok, Assistant Professor, University of Houston.

Thursday, 02/29–Friday, 03/30
College of Arch. Theater (Rm. 150)
122 College of Architecture Building
The University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, Texas 77004

new york NEW YORK

An event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’ new book, Embedded brings together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility. EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others.

EMBEDDED: Jeffrey Inaba, John McMorrough, Marcelo Spina, Jesse Reiser, David Ruy, Michael Meredith, and Mark Foster Gage
Thursday, 02/09
6.30–8.00 pm / Studio-X NYC
180 Varick St., Suite 1610
New York, NY 10014

brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: david RUY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

michelle FOWLER: This project illustrates a scenario where the economy of energy is reversed, from an economy of scarcity, in which we live, to one of abundance. Central to the design is the idea of fusion energy and feeding cities with the power harvested from their own synthetic sun. Spatial and aesthetic representations follow the philosophical theory of economic abundance, in which the individual consumes energy to the point of satiation then proliferates until maximum occupancy is reached.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

carlos GONZALEZ: Post-Romantic Urbanism for the Anthropocene Era. Arborescence is looking for a signifier with the understanding of the inexistence of nature and cities; there is only one system that needs to coexist. With the design of each element of the system, architecture becomes unique. In the large scale the uniqueness becomes anonymous. This architecture is a large-scale guidance of design with anonymous materials for the Anthropocene Era.

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