princeton NEW JERSERY

Princeton SOA Lecture Series: “What I Did Next: Princeton’s Alternative Architectural Practices”

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“
New Brave Worlds (Africa/Latin America),” with Alysa NAHMIAS, 
Dirk HEBEL, 
Kunle ADEYEMI, 
& Leonardo DÍAZ-BORIOLI
Wednesday, 04/03
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

troy NEW YORK

Peter Eisenman is an American architect, writer and educator whose work has long been informed by reading architecture through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and philosophical references. Famous during the late 1960s for his pioneering houses from his days among the New York Five, he has since then remained at the forefront of architectural discourse through the buildings he has produced, the numerous books he has written, and the lectures and courses he has taught.

Peter EISENMAN
, “A Defense of Architecture”
Wednesday, 04/03
6.00 pm / EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Ingeborg M. Rocker was appointed Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard in 2011, after serving as assistant professor there since 2005. Rocker’s theoretical work is devoted to questions regarding the impact of media on the perception, production, and thinking of architecture. As a designer and teacher of design, she deploys computer modeling as a tool for giving form to theoretical hypotheses in a didactic way. Rocker’s ongoing research has been widely publicized through numerous international magazines and books.

Ingeborg ROCKER, “Recursion: Aesthetics + Logics of Computation”
intro. by Marcelo SPINA
Wednesday, 04/03
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

new haven CONNECTICUT

Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize laureate, founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 with his wife, Lu Wenyu, in Hangzhou, China. Wang & Amateur Architecture Studio are known for built works including: Library of Wenzheng College, Suzhou University, China (2000); Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, Ningbo, China, (2005); Five Scattered Houses, Ningbo, China (2005); Vertical Courtyard Apartments, Hangzhou, China (2007); and more.

WANG Shu, “Construction in Amateur Architecture”
Paul Rudolph Lecture
Wednesday, 04/03
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

princeton NEW JERSERY

Princeton SOA Lecture Series: “What I Did Next: Princeton’s Alternative Architectural Practices”

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“
New Brave Worlds (Asia/Russia),” with 
Eunice SENG, Wenjing HUANG, Ling FAN, Marisa YIU, 
& Rossana RU-SHAN HU
Wednesday, 03/27
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Todd Gannon is a registered architect and writer based in Los Angeles. Gannon’s research focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002) and monographs on the work of Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, and others. His essays have appeared in Log, The SAGE Handbook for Architectural Theory (2012), and elsewhere.

Todd GANNON, “Prelude to the Confederacy”
intro. by Eric Owen MOSS
Wednesday, 03/27
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Called “America’s Most Wired Composer” by the L.A. Times, Tod Machover is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab, where he also directs the Opera of the Future Group. He is known for his boundary-breaking compositions and for designing transformative technologies for music. His hyperinstruments—smart performance systems to enhance artistic expression—have been created for virtuosi from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, been used to introduce musical creativity to amateurs of all ages. . . .

Tod MACHOVER, “Mediated Music: Robotic Operas, Guitar Hero, Collaborative Symphonies and Beyond”
intro. by Hernan Diaz ALONSO
Wednesday, 03/20
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

vienna AUSTRIA

Preston Scott Cohen is the Chair and Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the principal designer at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. His work exemplifies a new, highly disciplined synthesis of architectural typologies, geometry and urban contexts. Recent projects completed or under construction include the Taiyuan Museum of Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building, and Datong City Library.

Preston Scott COHEN, “The Plan of Succession.”
Tuesday, 03/19
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA

pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Liss C. Werner is a registered architect in Berlin and visiting professor at CMU School of Architecture. Her research focuses on architecture as science of cybernetics and culture through the evolution of technology in order to develop computational design thinking for the paradigm shift of architecture in C21. Her exploration of rule-based architectural systems informed by cybernetics, self-organization, and a critical reflection offers one possibility to depart from a purely aesthetic understanding of a priori form towards a vocabulary and theory for an architecture of architecture.

Liss WERNER, “Re-entry: The Architecture of Architecture and their Eigenform”
Monday, 03/18
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

new york NEW YORK

Mark Goulthorpe is an Associate Professor at MIT Department of Architecture, teaching digital design and fabrication and leading the new Design Stream in the SMArchS program. His current research centers on robotic fabrication and a variety of composite fabrication methodologies, as well as a new iteration of the dynamically reconfigurable HypoSurface. Goulthorpe is the author of Autoplastic to Alloplastic published by Hyx/Pompidou and The Possibility of (an) Architecture published by Routledge.

Mark GOULTHORPE, “Phototropic Implication.”
Thursday, 03/14
6.30–8.00 p.m. / Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, New York 10003

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