los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s end of the year all-school exposition engages students, faculty and the international design community in a discourse on the forefront of contemporary design and innovation. With 10,000 square feet of studio and program installations, 200 projects on view and 90 leading critics and practitioners, RUMBLE redefines the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects.

RUMBLE 2013
06/10–06/15 / Perloff Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Boundaries in architecture are defined and redefined everyday given the fluctuating contexts of our global environment. These limits or borders mark the differences between the serious and the farcical, the useful and the worthless, the sustainable and the ephemeral, the new for the good and the new for its own sake; between mass appeal and sub-cultural interests; between the self serving and the altruistic.

symposium: “Failure is an Option: Positions on Research and Experimentation” with Thom MAYNE, Greg LYNN, Jason PAYNE, Kimberli MEYER, Michael SPEAKS, and Ciro NAJILE. Moderated by Neil DENARI.
Monday, 06/10
4.00–6.00 p.m. / Perloff Hall, Room 1102
UCLA A.UD
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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new york NEW YORK

This event will be the first in a series of symposia investigating the role of applied research in architecture. Nestled in an intersection between practice and theory, applied architectural research can potentially work as a space for overlap and negotiation. This event will formally make explicit the opportunities for architectural research to bridge the gap between the archive and the laboratory.

“Apply: Conflict of Interests,” with 
David GISSEN, Thomas KEENAN, Janette KIM, Mpho MATSIPA, Sarah WHITING, Mabel WILSON, Kazys VARNELIS, & Mark WASIUTA
Friday, 04/26
2.00pm / 200, Fayerweather
1172 Amsterdam Ave
New York, New York 10027

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new york NEW YORK

Third annual symposium hosted by the Critical, Curatorial, & Conceptual Practices in Architecture class of 2014, GSAPP, Columbia University. The symposium will take the form of a series of roundtable seminars with invited guests from varied backgrounds. In each roundtable, panelists will briefly present a provocation, statement, or paragraph responding to the day’s thematic concerns, oscillating between architecture, writing, and exhibition-making.

symposium: “Interpretations: Discerning Fictions” with EASTERLING, LAI, MARTÍNEZ, NIERMANN, de OSTOS, VON SCHLEGELL, SCOTT, WASIUTA, & WIGLEY
Saturday, 04/20
12.30 pm / Studio-X NYC
180 Varick St.
New York, NY 10014

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london UNITED KINGDOM

“Future Cities 2” is an all day event held by the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research) group, a cross-disciplinary, research active architectural design group that examines the impact of emerging technologies on the built environment and wider culture.

“Future Cities 2: Other Worlds,” with 
keynote speaker Greg LYNN & more
Thursday, 04/11
9.45am-6.00pm / Howe Lecture Theatre, Maritime Campus
University of Greenwich
30 Park Row
London, Greenwich SE10 9LS, United Kingdom

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milwaukee WISCONSIN

On April 5th, 2013, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning will host the biennial Urban Edge Award Symposium, titled “Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices” and curated by Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of WEISS/MANFREDI. Expanding the definition of “infrastructure” to address an escalating set of design challenges that are at once cultural, architectural, and environmental, the symposium will host a series of cross-disciplinary talks and discussions between innovative architects, artists, ecologists, engineers, and theoreticians.

“Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices,” w/ MANFREDI, WEISS, EASTERLING, REYNOLDS, BUNGE, & more.
Friday, 04/05
10.00am–9.00pm / UWM
Milwaukee, WI 53201

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will present “COLD war COOL digital,” an exhibition of 20 scaled prototypes of modernist, pre-fabricated, and globally-distributed Cold War era housing systems that were created using contemporary 3D printing technologies.

symposium: “COLD war COOL digital: Variable, Pre-constructed, Consequential,” with Catherine INGRAHAM, Pedro IGNACIO ALONSO, Adrian FORTY, James GARRISON, Hugo PALMAROLA SAGREDO, & Tom WISCOMBE
Thursday, 02/28
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall, auditorium
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038

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buffalo NEW YORK

An error can be many things. In its most common display, however, it is something we are taught to avoid. It is often characterized by mannerisms that were once trends but are now condemned or qualified by a lack of command over formal logic, material tolerances, construction techniques, & space planning, to name but a few. 12 practitioners, theorists, & curators from the Midwest & East Coast will convene to examine the value of error, mistake-making, or wrongness, when architecture is at stake. The symposium is organized by UB Banham Fellow & UIC Visiting Asst. Professor Thomas Kelley.

“On Error,” w/ BAIR, FRANCH, KHAN, LAI, LALLY, LÓPEZ-PIÑEIRO, McMORROUGH, PREISSNER, & more
Wednesday, 01/23
2.00–7.00 pm / Greatbatch Pavilion
Darwin Martin House
125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14214

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

The AAG symposium presents theoretical works and practices linked to new geometrical development applicable to architecture. The event aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor.

Centre Pompidou Exhibition Symposium: Advances in Architectural Geometry at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Featuring: Herwig Baumgartner, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Peter Testa, and Andrew Atwood.
Friday, 11/30
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

london UNITED KINGDOM

Architecture finds itself coping with new social and cultural complexities that radically re-factor and challenge its response through latent and often unknown parameters. Distinctions between information, matter and life reveal intricacies in the speculative realties of a much deeper synthesis. This symposium will open a discussion on the role of generative and behavioural approaches within the conception and production of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

“Adaptive Ecologies: Notes on a Computational Urbanism”
SPYROPOULOS, SCHUMACHER, RUY, FRAZER, STUART-SMITH, DILLON, & more
Friday, 11/30
10.00am–6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architecture Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

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