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Our International series of open lectures covers a wide range of
ideas in architecture, design, technology, history and theory. The
series totals some 25 lectures in a typical year and ranges from
such personalities in the architectural world as Bernard Tschumi,
Zaha Hadid or Daniel Libeskind, to the first public lectures by
talented newcomers. It also includes lectures from young and established
scientists, engineers and makers looking at the ways in which architectural
worlds are conceived, made and subsequently perceived by others.
Also addressed are a wide range of issues concerning related disciplines
such as art and art theory, philosophy and critical theory, urban
geography, cultural studies, journalism and criticism, with speakers
such as Alain de Botton, Jean Baudrillard, Patrick Keiller and Mark
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Arguably, design methods and drawing techniques remain in the ‘blind spots’ of architecture education. We must recognize and address these fundaments of education as one way to reestablish the cultural effectiveness and agency of architecture. In addition to framing some of my work, I will expose a number of design methods and drawing techniques, both conventional and not, emphasizing the potential of analogic means for design and strategic plotting in the world of visualization. I will suggest that an increased awareness of the methods for working and of visualization tactics for design can augment an architect’s dexterity, ultimately broadening the conceptions of architecture toward a more robust cultural imagination. Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a SCI-Arc Faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (BS Arch) and Columbia University (M Arch) he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. [ top ]
 6.30pm Tuesday 13 October 2009 CJ Lim’s charity lecture will focus on innovative space-making and enclosures for cultural buildings; and Virtually Venice, his celebrated research project commissioned by the British Council UK for the Venice Architecture Biennale. His two books, Museums [work in process], and Virtually Venice will be on sale at a discounted price of £10 each; all proceeds will go to his charity Abbeyfield (a UK charity providing housing with care to older people). [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 21 October 2009 JG Ballard was one of the most original and distinctive authors of the last part of the C20th and beginning of the C21st; his writing encompassed topics as diverse as ecological crisis, technological fetishism, urban ruination and suburban mob culture, he pursued these topics with a wit and inventiveness that is without equal. Ballard's understanding of architecture, and architects, and his prophetic visions made him one of the most important figures in the literary articulation of architectural issues and concerns. From the description of futuristic houses that empathise with their inhabitants, to the bleak characterisation of gated communities consumed by sex, drugs and violence, Ballard's world is highly prescient and ruthlessly unsentimental. At a time when architectural discourse has become wholly subsumed by the money making pre-occupations of the architectural profession, the writings of JG Ballard serve as a reminder that architecture is about the people, the things that they do and the places where they do them, sometimes architecture will involve terrible people doing terrible things in terrible places; but the enduring nature of the human species is that we will always carry on, there is, after all, always the future. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 28 October 2009 In 1998 he collaborated with Neil Spiller on Spiller’s monograph “Maverick Deviations). In 2000 his monograph ‘Visceral Pleasures’ was published by Booth Clibborn. Oliver’s contribution to the history of graphic design has also been noted as one of 80 profiles from the century in “A Century of Graphic Design” by Jeremy Aynsley and was included in the latest edition of Meggs’ authoritative “History of Graphic Design”. Most recently it was included in 20 interviews (alongside Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli and Abbott Miller) in Debbie Millman’s “How to think like a Great Graphic Designer”. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 4 November 2009 BIO [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 11 November 2009 Entrance to the Darwin Building is now via Malet Place. Please allow yourself extra time to access the building. Mas Yendo was born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan, and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design (B.A.) and Pratt Institute (M.A., architecture). His experimental works have recently been compiled in his monograph Ironic Diversions, published by Springer/Wien through the Research Institute of Experimental Architecture. He lives and works in New York City. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 18 November 2009 Entrance to the Darwin Building is now via Malet Place. Please allow yourself extra time to access the building. This lecture will explore the significance of diagramming to problem solving. The diagram in architecture and related spatial disciplines continues to evolve as new design, sensing, manufacturing and visualisation technologies develop. Mark Garcia has undertaken over 6 years of international research, interviews and the commissioning of theoretical texts from architects, academics and industrial experts in related disciplines, and has researched and written on the histories, theories and futures of the architectural diagram in his forthcoming book 'The Diagrams of Architecture'. Since the 1980's the diagram has become the most significant and critical method, mode and medium for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. The Diagrams of an Architecture is the first anthology to represent, through texts and diagrams, the histories, theories and futures of architecture through diagram. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 25 November 2009 Entrance to the Darwin Building is now via Malet Place. Please allow yourself extra time to access the building. Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect and former professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-1983). He runs his own architect's office - Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY - in Helsinki. He is also Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis,U.S.. His exhibitions of Finnish architecture, planning and visual arts have been displayed in more than thirty countries and he has written numerous articles on cultural philosophy, environmental psychology and theories of architecture and the arts. A selection of essays written by Pallasmaa, from the early years to more recent ones, has been translated into English and collated together in the book "Encounters - Architectural Essays" (Helsinki, 2005), edited by Peter MacKeith. The book was shortlisted for the RIBA 2005 International Book Award. Pallasmaa is a member of the Finnish Association of Architects, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 9 December 2009 Entrance to the Darwin Building is now via Malet Place. Please allow yourself extra time to access the building. Pauline founded Survival Research Labs in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform. [ top ]
6.30pm Wednesday 9 December 2009 Entrance to the Darwin Building is now via Malet Place. Please allow yourself extra time to access the building. Dawn Ades is a Fellow of the British Academy, a trustee of Tate and was awarded an OBE in 2002 for her services to art history. She has been responsible for some of the most important exhibitions in London and overseas over the past thirty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Art in Latin America and Francis Bacon. She organised the highly successful exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Salvador Dali shown in Venice and Philadelphia in 2004. She has published standard works on photomontage, Dada, Surrealism, women artists and Mexican muralists. Dawn is now partially retired but continues to supervise PhD students. [ top ]
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