Program
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Eligible For 9 AIA LU/HSW
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Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWLEED AP, GRP
Global Director of Architectural Sales, Bison Innovative Products
Rethinking Flexibility
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWJoshua Ramus
Founding Principal, REXAdapting Free Libraries
Eligible For .5 AIA LU/HSWDavid Leven and Stella Betts
Founding Partners, LEVENBETTS
Contemporary Art and Historic Architecture
Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSWMiriam Peterson and Nathan Rich
Founding Partners, Peterson Rich OfficeEarth, Timber, Stone
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWMarta Peris and José Toral
Founding Partners, Peris +Toral ArquitectesFibre Cement Architectural Facade Materials
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWEquitone
Material Imprecision
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWRoberto de Leon and Ross Primmer
Founding Principals, de Leon & Primmer Architecture WorkshopCircular Construction in the Digital Age
Eligible For .5 AIA LU/HSWCatherine De Wolf
Professor & Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture, ETH Zürich
Productive Synthesis: An Approach to Designing Contemporary African Architectures
Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSWOlayinka Dosekun-Adjei
Cofounder and Creative DirectorStudio Contra
Transscalar Architecture
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWAndrés Jaque
Dean and Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of ArchitecturePlanning and Preservation Founder, Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN)
Ruinophilia
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSWLyndon Neri and Rossana Hu
Founding Partners, Neri & Hu Design and Research OfficeRethinking Flexibility
In a talk focused on spaces for the performing arts, Joshua Ramus, founder of New York-based REX, will discuss radical flexibility. Through an examination of the 14-year-old Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas, and two just-completed REX projects—the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan and the Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University, in Providence, he’ll showcase evolving ideas about adaptability and an approach toward spatial and technical flexibility whose ultimate aim is to inspire and enable interdisciplinary collaboration and invention in the arts.
Transscalar Architecture
Working at the intersection of design, research, and critical environmental practices, Andres Jaque will discuss several projects that transition across scales and medium—from his exhibition at the 2023 Venice Biennale to a recently completed school in Madrid.
Ruinophilia
Arguably the conception of ruins has long shaped western architectural historians’ origins narrative dating back to antiquity. Largely skewed by a distinct visual culture and optics of the “ruin gaze,” the ruin has predominantly been associated with romantic imagery possessing its own metaphysical charm. This lecture will present relevant projects from the Neri&Hu studio seen from the critical lens of Chinese art history to offer alternative representations of the past, readings of site, building, and visual memory as a foundation for building our future.
Circular Construction in the Digital Age
Design and construction have long relied on a take-make-waste model. In her talk, Catherine De Wolf, of the ETH in Zurich, will explore how digital tools, including artificial intelligence, robotic manufacturing, and blockchain technology, can help shift the industry away from this linear process toward circularity.
Contemporary Art and Historic Architecture
Join Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich of the Brooklyn-based practice PRO for a presentation of two new projects that were inserted into historical contexts: the Shepherd Gallery & Arts Center in Detroit and the Davison Art Gallery at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
Adapting Free Libraries
With several library renovations completed and under construction throughout New York City, LEVENBETTS explores the technical, logistical, and aesthetic demands for the next generation of this quintessential civic space.
Earth, Timber, Stone
The husband-and-wife team of Marta Peris and José Toral, founders of Barcelona-based Peris+Toral Arquitectes, have developed a specialty for social housing. In their talk, the pair will present several recently completed and under-construction apartment buildings that reconsider this building type from the standpoint of environmental and social sustainability.
Material Imprecision
Considerations of craft, fabrication, and the ‘hand-made’ are aspects of building that have characterized the work of DPAW throughout varying scales and contexts. Exploring overlaps between precision/imprecision and local skillsets, the studio’s working methodology frames an organic process of material investigation that argues for innovation as a necessarily messy collaborative effort – the idea that imperfection, recalibration, and resourcefulness can lead to invention and new directions. Presenting regional case studies that draw on these aspirations, the talk will cover material explorations that frame this focus.
Productive Synthesis: An Approach to Designing Contemporary African Architectures
In her talk, Nigeria-based Studio Contra cofounder and creative director Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei will present two arts projects in Africa—one recently completed and another under construction—as well as discuss her firm’s unique approach to building there.
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