princeton NEW JERSEY

Princeton SoA
advisors: Sylvia LAVIN & Michael MEREDITH.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joanna E. GRANT: This thesis project seeks to define a territory in which cuteness can operate in the discipline of architecture. In the soft sciences, research has proven that cuteness is a biological adaptation of babies and young mammals to ensure survival, which is known as the caretaker affect.

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new york NEW YORK

Almost every industry in the world has benefited from the invention of plastics, but it is only in the recent past that they have begun to be appreciated as architectural materials in their own right. . . .

book launch & discussion: “Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering,” with Michael BELL, William CARROLL, George MIDDLETON, Billie FAIRCLOTH, & Sylvia LAVIN.
Tuesday, 07/01
6.00–8.00 p.m. / Center for Architecture
536 La Guardia Place
New York, NY 10012

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venice ITALY

The University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation cordially invite to a panel discussion on “Endless Future: Architectural and Artistic Trajectories for the Twenty-First Century and the Influences of Frederick Kiesler.”

event: ““Endless Future.”
Saturday, 06/07
2.00 p.m. / Venice Architecture Biennale
Sale d’Armi, Arsenale
Ramo de laTana 2169/F
Castello, Venezia, Italy

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new york NEW YORK

To mark its 10th anniversary and 29th issue, Log presents In Pursuit of Architecture, a conference featuring recent built work selected from an open, international call for submissions. Join architects & critics for a daylong discussion of architectural ideas, what it takes to build them, & how we measure the cultural value of architecture.

conference: “In Pursuit of Architecture” w/ PERSYN, BARKOW, CAPPAI & SEGANTINI, NAPOLITANO, MOS, DENARI, GEERS, COHEN, REISER + UMEMOTO, van BERKEL, JACOB, LAVIN, PETIT, & WHITING.
Saturday, 09/21
10.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m. / The Museum of Modern Art, Film Entrance
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

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new york NEW YORK

Given the social, economic, environmental, and even media demands on architecture today, how are architectural ideas sustained beyond conception to become buildings? In a special, tenth anniversary issue, Log 29: In Pursuit of Architecture presents ten outstanding architectural projects from the past decade—some well-known, others completely new—in a full-color portfolio format that illustrates the concepts and processes of each building. Selected from an open call for work built since 2003, these buildings illustrate a range of architectural ideas, and together open a conversation about the production and significance of architecture today. To situate the ten-project portfolio, Log 29 includes essays by four critics who reflect on recent and emerging themes in architecture and directions the discipline may develop.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Reframing Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous statement “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles,” a new exhibition opening at the Yale School of Architecture on Aug. 28 demonstrates the connections between architecture and other visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s.

exhibition: “Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles,” curated by Sylvia LAVIN
08/28–11/09
Paul Rudolph Hall Exhibition Gallery
Yale SOA
180 York St.
New Haven, CT 06517

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2011

Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of “kissing” to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art—particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings—and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today.

los angeles CALIFORNIA

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

new york NEW YORK

Storefront for Art and Architecture will present “Toward a Theory of Misbehavior,” a Manifesto Series event showcasing different generational approaches towards architecture theory on the occasion of the release of The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation X by Alejandro Zaera Polo. Presenters include: Kenneth Frampton, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Cynthia Davidson, Jeff Kipnis, Stan Allen , Sylvia Lavin, Sanford Kwinter, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Michael Meredith, Anna Pla Català , Bjarke Ingels, Eva Franch i Gilabert.

“Toward A Theory of Misbehavior”
Friday, 05/27
7.00-9.00 pm / Storefront for Art & Arch.
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NEW YORK 10012

boston MASSACHUSETTS

Digital Aptitudes
ACSA 100th Annual Meeting
March 1-4, 2012 in Boston, MA
Host School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-chairs: Mark Goulthorpe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amy Murphy, University of Southern California
Presenters: Including Sanford Kwinter, Jeffrey Kipnis, Ingeborg Rocker, Kathryn Gustafson, Mark Burry, Anthony Vidler, Michael Silver, Michael Young, Volkan Alkanoglu, Skylar Tibbits, & more.

Digital Aptitudes: Opening Panel & Reception
Sanford Kwinter, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Kathryn Gustafson, Mark Burry
Thurday, 03/01
6.00–8.30 pm / Boston Park Plaza
50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116