This term’s International Lecture Series at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London is curated by Dr. Marjan Colletti, Dr. Marcos Cruz and Dr. Peg Rawes. The invited speakers are:

• Wednesday 21 January – Günther Feuerstein
• Wednesday 4 February – Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
• Friday 13 February – Oron Catts (SymbioticA)
• Wednesday 18 February – Jan Birksted Bartlett
• Wednesday 25 February – Tom Wiscombe (EMERGENT Architecture)
• Wednesday 4 March – Marjan Colletti (Bartlett, MAM)
• Wednesday 11 March – Hernan Dias Alonso (Xefirotarch)
• Wednesday 18 March – Pancho Guedes
• Monday 23 March – Kjetil Thorsen (Snøhetta)

The upcoming guest is Tom Wiscombe, the principal of Emergent.

Born in in 1970 in La Jolla, California, Tom Wiscombe is an architectural
designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform
for researching contemporary models of biology, engineering, and
computation to produce an architecture characterized by formal
variability, high performance, and atmospherics.

Founded in 1999 by Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT is dedicated to researching
issues of structure, tectonics, and materiality through built work.
EMERGENT is a platform for experimentation, leveraging techniques and
logics from fields outside architecture including biology, complexity
science, aerospace engineering, and computation. EMERGENT’s directive is
to move beyond categorical thinking in architecture and the stratification
of building systems. This involves a re-examination of heirarchies and
discreetness of systems toward coherent but differentiated constructions.
Ultimately, the results are understood both in terms of performance and
spatial and atmospheric effects.

Wednesday February 25th, 18:30
all lectures will take place at the UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre
get directions here