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Eric Owen Moss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles. He holds Master Degrees in Architecture from both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. Eric Owen Moss Architects was founded in 1973. . . .

Eric Owen MOSS, “The Man from the Country Where No One Else Lives”
intro. by Jeffrey KIPNIS
Wednesday, 03/06
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

Photo: Philip Arnold, Knowlton School of Architecture.

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critic: Eric Owen MOSS

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The 2011 Egyptian Revolution proved to be the beginning of an end in Egypt. On January 25, 2011 up-rises began in an effort to overthrow Hosni Mubaraks’ Regime. Millions of protestors from all socio-economic and religious backgrounds demanded the fall of Mubarak’s dictatorship. After continued weeks of protest and pressure, Mubarak resigned from office on February 11, 2011. Ironically though, what ended on February 11, 2011 marked the beginning of new and uncertain Egypt.

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“The profession of architecture has expanded and now finds itself in a position to engage with a broader series of cultural references. The architect can now refer to film, fashion, literature, philosophy, music, art etc. and as such greatly enrich the cultural side of the profession. However with such an exclusive focus, the functionality of architecture—the rational and scientific side of the profession—is sometimes forgotten. As there is still much to discover in these more pragmatic areas of the practice, I believe that in the future the profession will become increasingly oriented towards knowledge and expertise . . .”

Ben van BERKEL, “Architecture and its Future”
intro. by Eric Owen MOSS
Wednesday, 02/20
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Andrew Zago has over 25 years of professional experience in architecture and education. His firm, Zago Architecture, is a recipient of a Progressive Architecture Award, an Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellowship Grant from the United States Artists organization. Zago Architecture brings open-ended, creative inquiry to disciplinary concerns in architecture. Noted for its prescient articulation of emerging sensibilities, the practice weds aesthetic studies to the practical art of making buildings and cities. In doing so, Zago Architecture reaffirms the substantial and productive link amongst art, architecture and urbanism.

Andrew ZAGO, “An Awkward Position”
intro. by Eric Owen MOSS
Wednesday, 02/06
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Neil Denari is an architect and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, a globally recognized architecture practice based in Los Angeles. He is currently a Professor at UCLA. At present, his office is engaged with projects of various scales in the U.S. and Asia. Denari is the author of two bestselling books, Interrupted Projections and Gyroscopic Horizons, and is currently at work on Facticity, forthcoming in 2013.

neil DENARI, “Facticity”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 11/28
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Sylvia Lavin is a widely published critic and historian who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her most recent book, Kissing Architecture, was published by Princeton University Press (2011). Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (1992) and Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (2005) were published by MIT and The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity is forthcoming.

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sylvia LAVIN, “Everything Loose Will Land”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 11/14
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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This short term research-prototype posits itself within the argument for parametric design research to focus its efforts on design methods that encompass an operative pathway from design intent to its manifestation. Physical form-finding –hanging chains and cloth, soap films, etc.—and associated architectural design methods as pioneered by Antonio Gaudi, Heinz Isler, Frei Otto, Felix Candela and others is common knowledge among architects.

Zaha Hadid Architects: Pleated Shell Structures
Discussion & Opening Reception w/ Patrik Schumacher and Eric Owen Moss
Friday, 10/12
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. In 1996, he founded the DRL with Brett Steele at the Architectural Association in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Schumacher’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his published works and interviews which can be viewed at his Web site.

patrik SCHUMACHER, “Parametric Semiology”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 10/10
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Peter Zellner is principal of ZELLNERPLUS, an architectural design firm based in Venice, Calif. He is a faculty member at SCI-Arc, where he began teaching in 1999, and where he co-coordinates the Future Initiatives postgraduate urban design program with David Bergman. His firm has been recognized as an emerging architectural voice in national publications such as The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

His Venice-based office, ZELLNERPLUS is currently completing two residential projects in Los Angeles as well as a new house in Baja California, Mexico.

Peter Zellner, “Practices & Projects”
intro. by hsinming FUNG
Wednesday, 09/26
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Paul Goldberger, who The Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. Goldberger began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Architecture Matters. He is now at work on a full-length biography of the architect Frank Gehry.

paul GOLDBERGER, “Criticism, Architecture and the Age of Twitter”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 09/19
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013