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Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the director of the Architectural Association’s world-renowned Design Research Lab (DRL) in London. Spyropoulos directs the experimental architecture and design studio minimaforms with his brother, Stephen Spyropoulos. Recent projects include a series of thematic landmarks for a Renzo Piano master-planned national park in Athens; a large-scale work of Land art in Norway; a vehicle in collaboration with the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko; and an immersive ephemeral environment for the city of Detroit.

theodore SPYROPOULOS
Monday, 09/10
7.00 pm / San Francisco Campus
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Code [9] (nassim ES-HAGHI, george KONTALONIS, jared RAMSDELL, & rana ZUREIKAT): Code [9] is a collaboration between Nassim Es-Haghi, George Kontalonis, Jared Ramsdell, and Rana Zureikat. Formed under the proto-design agenda of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association and situated within Patrik Schumacher’s agenda for a Semiological Campus. The studio viewed architecture as a frame to order and adapt society, while pursuing architectural distinctions and differentiation to have embedded cognitive intelligibility.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Category5 (lisa CUMMING, jorge MÉNDEZ-CÁCERES, drew MERKLE, & nada TARYAM): Category 5 is comprised of Lisa Cumming [NZL], Jorge Méndez-Cáceres [PUR], Drew Merkle [USA] and Nada Taryam [UAE], and formed within the ProtoDesign Agenda of Theodore Spyropoulos Studio at the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture. The premise of the studio was one that sought to challenge the means and processes of scientific research in adopting a self-organising architectural system that employs a bottom up approach to design. Through this method of design, we employed both analogue and digital models and simulation techniques in order to rigorously explore the potential of the prototype in architectural design.

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“Many categorical problems of complexity and limited indeterminacy have already been codified through software as explicit informational territories [program]. Of crucial importance to these programs is their ability to mediate and reify informational bodies – inputting, conditioning and outputting data such that program-specific value and meaning are added to all three phases and posited as ontologically equivalent objects. Within this mode of design, the urgency for discretely structural strategies is paramount. . . .”

josh TARON
lecture: “Speculative Structures: Structurally Intelligent Swarms Research”
Monday, 02/17
1.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES