burbank CALIFORNIA

Michael Young is an architect and an educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata formed as a partnership between Michael Young & Kutan Ayata in New York in 2008 to explore novel formal and organizational possibilities in architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to the exchange between built commissions and design research. Their work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Michael has taught design studios and seminars at The Cooper Union, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University.

lecture: Michael YOUNG
Tuesday, 04/09
6.30pm / Ahmanson Main Space
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91510-7846

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columbus OHIO

The “Possible Mediums” Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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new york NEW YORK

Reclaim Resilience-Resistance
8 DEC. 2012
Event / evening / for the release of Log 25
“Beauty Bar,” 6:30-8PM / 231 E 14th St
New York / ID Card for over 21 (bar and manicure)/
François Roche, Guest Editor,
and Lydia Kallipoliti, Roland Snooks, Ezio Blasetti, Camille Lacadée, Leopold Lambert, Michael Young, Ed Keller, Pedro Gadanho, Karl Chu, Winka Dubbeldam, and some unexpected guests . . .

[Log 25]

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princeton NEW JERSERY

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

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“Digital Geometries,” with Ingeborg ROCKER, Michael YOUNG & Kutan AYATA, Pablo Lorenzo EIROA, Branden HOOKWAY, & Yusuke OBUCHI
Wednesday, 11/28
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

new haven CONNECTICUT

A generation ago, the post-modern quest for variation was a forceful plea against the dominant cultural technologies of the mechanical age. Today, digital technologies can deliver variations of all sorts and almost at no cost. Yet unlimited design variability inevitably challenges deeply ingrained assumptions of authorship. Contemporary digital culture and technologies favor and nurture a new notion of design indeterminacy, where objects are increasingly seen as systems able to self-organize and find the best solutions by themselves, when digitally empowered to do so.

Digital Design Theory Symposium: Digital Post-Modernities
Friday, 11/02
11.00 am - 4.30 pm / Smith Conference Room
Paul Rudolph Hall
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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new york NEW YORK

Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris

Students: whitney BOYKIN, xiaoci CHEN, sarah HABIB, melodie YAHSAR, & katie ZAEH.

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new york NEW YORK

Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris

Students: geof BELL, kevin CERVANTES, madeeha MERCHANT, juan pablo AZARES, jim STODDART.

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new york NEW YORK

In its definition pushed back towards its Greek origins, Aesthetics refers to all theories investigating the human sensorium. This course takes its cue from the moiré effect, seeking to explore the “interference” between the tectonic, the geometric, and the aesthetic in architectural design and fabrication. At stake is a revaluation of the ideas of craft, traditionally associated with handwork and material specificity in a vernacular tradition, but in a digital realm, seen as a relation between geometric techniques, physical manifestations, and aesthetic desires.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale University SOA
critic: michael YOUNG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

melissa SHIN: This project explores the vicissitudinous juxtaposition between contemporary art and the environment in which it is exhibited. A grid or lattice was imposed upon the site as a response to the studio’s challenge of building on a site with very little organized urban context (the Brooklyn Navy yard) but within a city defined by a predominantly strong grid.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Operatic performance seeks to compress a multitude of specific art mediums into a single temporal experience; poetic narrative, dramatic performance, music (both vocal and orchestral), costume, lighting, stage and scenery design. But, to go to the opera is much more than just the performance itself. It involves all of the preliminary anticipatory experiences of the opera house. The entries, lobbies, stairways, foyers, bars and restaurants are an integral part of the opera event.

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