Program

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Eligible For 9 AIA LU/HSW 

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7:30AM - 9:00AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00AM - 9:00AM
Breakfast Sponsored CEU Session
Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Mark Fusco
LEED AP, GRP
Global Director of Architectural Sales, Bison Innovative Products
Bison
9:10AM - 9:15AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:15AM - 10:00AM
Rethinking Flexibility
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Joshua Ramus
Founding Principal, REX
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Adapting Free Libraries
Eligible For .5 AIA LU/HSW
David Leven and Stella Betts
Founding Partners, LEVENBETTS
10:30AM - 10:45AM
Innovation in Record Time Presentation Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSW

KINGSPAN
10:45AM - 11:15AM
Networking and Refreshment Break in Expo Hall

11:15AM - 11:30 AM

Contemporary Art and Historic Architecture

Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSW
Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich
Founding Partners, Peterson Rich Office
11:30AM - 12:15PM
Earth, Timber, Stone
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Marta Peris and José Toral
Founding Partners, Peris +Toral Arquitectes
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Networking and Lunch in the Expo Hall

12:45PM - 1:45PM
Lunchtime Sponsored CEU Session
Fibre Cement Architectural Facade Materials
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Kellie Knuff Perkins
Equitone
Equitone
2:00PM - 2:45PM

Material Imprecision

Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer
Founding Principals, de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop
2:45M - 3:15PM
Circular Construction in the Digital Age
Eligible For .5 AIA LU/HSW
Catherine De Wolf
Professor & Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture, ETH Zürich
3:15PM - 3:30PM
Innovation in Record Time Presentation Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSW

Mitrex
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Networking and Refreshment Break in Expo Hall
4:00PM - 4:15PM
Productive Synthesis: An Approach to Designing Contemporary African Architectures
Eligible For .25 AIA LU/HSW
Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei
Cofounder and Creative Director
Studio Contra

4:15PM - 5:00PM

Transscalar Architecture

Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Andrés Jaque
Dean and Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture
Planning and Preservation Founder, Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN)

5:00PM - 5:45PM
Ruinophilia
Eligible For 1 AIA LU/HSW
Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu
Founding Partners, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
5:45PM
Closing Remarks

5:50PM - 6:45PM
Networking and Cocktail Reception in Expo Hall

Rethinking 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.


Key Corporate Sponsors

Kingspan mitrex

Continuing Education Sponsors

Bison Equitone Facades Sto Corp

Student Sponsor

Think Wood

Product Gallery Sponsors

ABC Stone americans pecialties benjamin moore Construction Specialties NTMA ornamental metal Institute of New York Steel Institute of New York

Supporting Sponsors

American Institute of Architects Austin American Institute of Architects California American Institute of Architects Kansas City American Institute of Architects  New York American Institute of Architects St. Louis American Institute of Architecture Students