IAAC Spring Lecture Series – Black Ecologies – 2020

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20 – Black Ecologies Debate
14th May 2020, 19:00 (CET)
The launch of Iaac Bits #9: Black Ecologies, the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s Journal co-edited by Actar Publishers, is the occasion to discuss the need to define a new natural environment co-produced by all ecological, biological, technological and cultural agents.

The debate on Black Ecologies book, will introduce the new practices of architecture and urban planning that create ecologies, which, as the title of the book says, are dark, or rather hybrid. These are ecologies that go beyond the traditional dichotomies between interior and exterior, or natural and artificial.

The participants will have the opportunity to interact with the contributors of the book and be introduced in  architectural projects that in a pioneer and experimental way merge humans with robots, biology with artificial intelligence, or nature with technology.

>> more at: https://actar.com/product/iaac-bits-9/

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>> replay of discussion: click

Note: Good to be in the same room with Mitch again! #quarantinelife

Note: Good to be in the same room with Mitch again! #quarantinelife

Also a cameo by Plug-In Ecology!

BTS + ÀNIMA, Light as an Immersive Experience

When we were presented with the opportunity to create an immersive lighting experience for one of the biggest light festivals in Barcelona, our level of excitement was equally met with a few challenges--from our restrictive site location to the newly enforced regulations on participating (and future) projects--thus, we began to adopt a strategy that focused on methods of low-tech yet high impact.

Equal in challenge to the conceptual solution was the production aspect. With a strategy in place, we focused on using minimal materials in the installation to highlight the importance of light as a primary material and to avoid having large amounts of unresolved materials once the festival was over.

Fiber optics were chosen as the lighting component, in part due to its versatile nature, flexible application, and low impact on the environment--low energy consumption, heat-free illumination, and its ability to be recycled or upcycled.

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BTS + ÀNIMA, Installation on-site

With Anima set to be a long tunnel of fiber optic lights suspended from the ceiling of the structure, the construction process needed to ensure that the final iteration used the least amount of materials, while meeting the expectations of a fully immersive experience.

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Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site

by Caroline O'Donnell (Author)

“A snippet from Ingraham’s Foreword:

“…O’Donnell’s book provides very sharp insights into what it might mean to draw, as an architect or urban designer, in order to draw out, in an ecological sense, the ‘missing perspectives’ of diverse and com­plex contexts in past, contemporary, and future architectural work.””

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.

Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined, from the anomalous city designs of Francesco de Marchi in the sixteenth century to Le Corbusier’s near eradication of context in his Plan Voisin in the twentieth century to the more recent contextualist movements. Extensively illustrated with 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics considers how attention to site might create a generative language for architecture today.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Niche-Tactics-Generative-Relationships-Architecture/dp/1138793124

Interview with Routledge : https://www.routledge.com/posts/494

This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good | MOMA

FEBRUARY 14, 2015–JANUARY 01, 2016

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN GALLERIES, THIRD FLOOR

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MOMA press release:

This exhibition takes its title from the Twitter message that British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) used to light up the stadium at the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic games in London. His buoyant tweet highlighted the way that the Internet—perhaps the most radical design experiment of the last quarter century—has created limitless possibilities for the discovery, sharing, and expansion of knowledge and information.

As we revel in this abundant possibility, we sometimes forget that new technologies are not inherently democratic. Is design in the digital age—so often simply assumed to be for the greater good—truly for everyone? From initial exploratory experiments to complex, and often contested, hybrid digital-analog states to “universal” designs, This Is for Everyoneexplores this question with design works from MoMA’s collection that celebrate the promise—and occasional flipside—of contemporary design.

Organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.

Architecture and Design Collection Exhibitions are made possible by Hyundai Card and Hyundai Capital America.

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Venice Architecture Biennale Panel + Exhibition Opening


from the New School:


Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm 

Glass Corner, Parsons East Building 
25 East 13th Street, Room E206,
New York, NY 10003

 

Parsons School of Constructed Environments presents an overview of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, with members of the United States Pavilion team:

 - Eva Franch Gilabert, Commissioner and Curator, of Storefront for Art and Architecture

 - Chris Leong, Exhibition Designers of Leong Leong.

This event will celebrate the opening of the SCE Gallery Exhibit: Venice Biennale 2014, the “Fundamentals of Architecture” and "Absorbing Modernism,” a survey of 
the exhibitions in this year's Biennale.

LATELY...

LATELY...

CODY, MY SPIRITUAL GURU

CALATRAVA TRANSIT HUB, WTC.

BRIGHTON BEACH FROM THE Q TRAIN.

Primordial Crustaceans, American Museum of Natural History.

American Museum of Natural History.

NEW VENTURE!

NOW THIS IS A USB STICK I CAN GET BEHIND