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AA Lecture Videos

Andrei Martin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:08 +0000

AA have started posting videos of their lectures. Check out Tom Wiscombe’s Extreme Integration lecture.

Lecture: Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta @ Bartlett

Andrei Martin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:38:40 +0000

March 23, 2009
6:30 pm	to	7:30 pm

The Lecture starts at 6:30 at the Darwin Lecture Theatre at UCL. Directions here.

Many of the projects created by Snøhetta have been inspired or led by Kjetil and to fulfill prjects abroad he became member of both the French Associateion of Architects and the American Institure of Architects (AIA) in addition to his membership of NAL.

Kjetil has serves as Juror on various design competitions in Europe and has been involved in several architecture exhibitions, design symposia and conferences worldwide. He gives lectures regularly and is part of promoting Norwegian architecture abroad.

In 2004 he became professor at the University of Innsbruck, where he is heading the Institure for emperimental studies in Architecture together with Patrik Schumacher from Zaha Hadid Architects.

Shape to Fabrication Lectures

Andrei Martin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:41:29 +0000

Shape to Fabrication have made available videos from their previous events:

Tristan Simmonds
ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit
Spacestation sculpture by Antony Gormley

In this presentation Tristan outlines how custom routines were written for Rhino to help in the construction and fabrication of the ‘Spacestation’sculpture by Antony Gormley.

Florian Gauss
ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit
Generative Surface Smoothing and FE Model Automation

Starting with a simple Rhino model ARUP created an extended geometric model followed by custom smoothing routines based on sub-division modelling resampled into nurbs patches.

Shrikant Sharma
Buro Happold SMART Group
Geometry, Form and Optimisation

Shrikant explains Rhino’s key role in several successful projects by Buro Happold’s SMART team.

The next session in the Shape to Fabrication series will take place on the 15th of April 2009 in the Lecture Theatre at London Metropolitan University.

International Lecture Series @ Bartlett

Andrei Martin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:33:11 +0000

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

Lecture: Hanif Kara Engineering, a Practice

Andrei Martin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:29:51 +0000

February 4, 2009
6:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

Location: AA Bedford Square

Adams Kara Taylor are one of the world’s leading engineering practices. Working alongside some of the best contemporary architects the practice has produced an array of exemplary buildings. Hanif Kara is a structural engineer and co-founder and director of AKT. He is a long-standing visiting lecturer at the Architectural Association, Cornell University and has been appointed Professor of Architectural Technology at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan (KTH), Stockholm. Professor Kara is co-chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment design review panel and has been appointed a CABE commissioner, the first structural engineer to be appointed to the post.

Lecture – Rachel Armstrong: The Evolution of Systems Architecture

Andrei Martin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:38:10 +0000

November 19, 2008
6:30 pm	to	8:00 pm

Bartlett School of Architectue

Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1

‘Systems’ architecture is the study of complexity within the discipline of the built environment that extends from the macroscale flow of information, movement, energy or resources within an urban landscape to the micro scale organization of building materials. Using scientific principles that emerge from contemporary studies into The Origins of Life, a new class of materials has evolved that offer architects the potential to make buildings capable of evolutionary adaptation and change. The impact of these new materials is examined in the context of a new form of computing termed ‘material computing’ whose design, utility and implications for the future planning and construction of the built environment are considered. It is also suggested that effective design at the micro scale in urban planning and the use of material computers may offer a means by which urban developers can move towards an ‘idealized’ notion of complex, or ‘systems’, architectural practice.

The Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture Series is a free event and everyone (including non-students) is welcome. Tickets are not required and seats cannot be reserved. For up-to-date information please visit the website www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.

Lecture – George L. Legendre: Surface Goodness

Andrei Martin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:32:19 +0000

November 18, 2008
5:30 pm	to	7:00 pm

University of Greenwich School of Architecture & Construction,
Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre (M055)
Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus, Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ

Is the surface any good? Drawing on his academic work, writing, and built practice, the London-based architect George L. Legendre reflects on the ontology of the variable surface and offers a few tips along the way.

Speaker: George L. graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994 and served as Assistant Professor of Architecture there from 1995 to 2000. He was visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich, Princeton University, and Master of Diploma Unit 5 at the AA School of Architecture.
His office explores the natural intersection between space, mathematics, and computation. It has just completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore. In 2007, the influential UK weekly Building Design elected the 3-year-old firm as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of forty, but never returned his calls.
The work of IJP has featured most recently on the cover of AA Files 56 (London 2007), Architectural Review, and Icon Magazine (both London 2008). Legendre has written IJP:The Book of Surfaces, edited Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and contributed a critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (AA Publications, 2003-06).
http://www.ijpcorporation.com/

Further information:
Teresa Stoppani
t.stoppani@gre.ac.uk

Lecture – Philippe Morel: Pangaea Proxima A Walk into the Anti-Copernican Supercontinent

Andrei Martin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:44:48 +0000

November 17, 2008
5:00 pm	to	6:30 pm

Second lecture in the AADRL Guest Lecture Series
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

The lecture addresses computation on a geographical scale, discussing the idea of the world as a single physical and computational supercontinent. Philippe Morel is cofounder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais. Morel has written on the consequences of technological phenomena on global disurbanism. He has lectured and/or exhibited at Loopholes within Discourse and Practice (Harvard GSD, 2005), GameSetMatchII (TU Delft, 2006), at the Pratt Institute, Columbia and MIT. He curated the exhibition Architecture beyond Forms: The Computational Turn at the Maison de l’Architecture et de la Ville PACA in Marseille (2007). He is the editor of Computational Architectures (forthcoming, HYX Editions).

Why are Flowers Beautiful (and why does it matter)

Andrei Martin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:24:47 +0000

David Deutsch is an Oxford quantum physicist and author of The Fabric of Reality. In this lecture he attempts to explain affective performance as an evolutionary imperative. Only by using what he calls objective standards of beauty can flowers signal complex information accross a gab between species. Any creative act, scientific or artistic, implicitly must do the same.