montreal CANADA

“Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterisation because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the stupefying quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an architectural practice of unusual complexity.”

“Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling”
Curated by Anthony Vidler
Thursday, 05/16 – Sunday, 10/14
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 rue Baile
Montréal, Québec H3H 2S6
CANADA

dessau GERMANY

Neil Leach is a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of 22 books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Designing for a Digital World, Digital Tectonics, Digital Cities and Camouflage. He has been co-curator of a series of exhibitions at the Architecture Biennial Beijing since 2004, and was also co-curator of the Swarm Intelligence exhibition in Gallery SH, Shanghai, China in 2010.

neil LEACH
“Desiring Machines”
Wednesday, 05/16
4.30 pm / Building 08, Room 006 (Main lecture hall)
Bauhausstrasse 5
06846 Dessau, GERMANY

columbus OHIO

Brandon Clifford’s work focuses on the realization of digital manufacturing through materials, means and methods of production, as well as the process and representation of direct drawing to better influence the built environment. His focus is neither on the side of the digital or the physical, but rather in response to both. His research and work consistently develop reciprocity between drawing and construction. In 2008, Clifford co-founded Matter Design with Wes McGee. The practice is committed to experimentation and research at a variety of scales, and recently was selected as a finalist in the international West Cork Arts Center competition.

brandon CLIFFORD
Wednesday, 05/16
5.30 pm / GUI Auditorium, Knowlton Hall
Knowlton School of Architecture
The Ohio State University
275 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OHIO 43210

new york NEW YORK

Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes marks the first major gallery presentation of Gréaud’s work to date and his first exhibition in New York in nearly six years. The exhibition features a series of site-specific, multisensory installations that activate new ways of experiencing Gréaud’s on-going investigation of altered realities. The exhibition also includes the U.S. premiere of the film, One Thousand Ways to Enter (2011), which was originally conceived for the artist’s traveling museum exhibition CELLAR DOOR.

loris GRÉAUD
05/05-06/09
The Pace Gallery
534 West 25th Street
New York, NEW YORK 10001

rome ITALY

My Masochism is the new title chosen for the new and intriguing event that the creative Roman team of Cityvision will present May 19th, 2012 at 4pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.

A new independent architecture event will feature the London architect Robert Stuart-Smith of Kokkugia. The underlying theme of the new Cityvision issue and the event itself will be the theme “MY MASOCHISM,” which calls for a critical and ironic remark on the perverse attitude of being architect/artist/creative. “If masochism means to be pleased by an act of violence on our body, then it is certainly inherent in the role of an architect.”

“My Masochism”
Saturday, 05/19
4.00 pm / MACRO
Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome
via Nizza 138
Rome, ITALY

new york NEW YORK

d3 is pleased to announce the opening of the ‘d3 Natural Systems>Origins’ exhibition at Gallery MC in Manhattan. The exhibition will run from May 9th through June 1st, Tuesday through Saturday from 12-6pm. The gallery will offer extended evening hours on May 9th from 6-8pm.

Sponsored by New York-based d3, the annual d3 Natural Systems international architectural design competition promotes investigation of ecological flows as a platform for architectonic innovation. The competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students worldwide to collectively explore the potential of sustainable, nature-based influences in urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

d3 Natural Systems>Origins
Wednesday, 05/09-06/01
Gallery MC
549 West 52nd St., 8th floor
New York, NEW YORK 10019

london UNITED KINGDOM

Translate the Intangible addresses the challenges of communicating dynamic aspects of contemporary design methodologies through static mediums such as text and images. As current design-oriented fields have amplified the implementation of computational and generative tools, the process of documentation and representation of the design process has become more difficult to express. Translate the Intangible will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of leading practitioners to discuss the challenges involved in expressing the process involved in their work and propose new perspectives addressing this issue.

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Translate the Intangible: Kolarevic, Sarkisian, Lynn, Kilian, Dellatore, & Lipson.
Friday, 05/11
10.00 am / Lecture Hall, AA
36 Bedford Square
London, UK WC1B 3ES

columbus OHIO

Benjamin Ball grew up in Colorado and Iowa, where his mother’s involvement in theatre proved influential. . . . In his current collaboration with Gaston Nogues, Ball is exploring the intersection of architecture, art and product design through physical modeling and the use of digital and more traditional forms of production.

benjamin BALL
Wednesday, 05/09
5.30 pm / GUI Auditorium, Knowlton Hall
Knowlton School of Architecture
The Ohio State University
275 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OHIO 43210

graz AUSTRIA

Panel: “Should buildings grow/adapt/repair themselves? And if so, why not?”

With: Peter Cook, Hans Frey, Urs Hirschberg, Peter Pakesch, & Wolfgang Tschapeller.
Moderation: Marjan Colletti.

Should buildings grow/adapt/repair themselves? And if so, why not?
Wednesday, 05/09
6.00 pm / HDA
Haus der Architektur im Palais Thinnfeld
Mariahilferstraße 2, 8020 Graz AUSTRIA

new york NEW YORK

Sequence Press and Urbanomic host a lecture by Quentin Meillassoux exploring the thesis of his new book THE NUMBER AND THE SIREN: A DECIPHERMENT OF MALLARMÉ’S COUP DE DÉS. Translated from the French by Robin Mackay, The Number and the Siren is Quentin Meillassoux’s much anticipated second published book. A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allen Poe, a treasure hunt worthy of an adventure novel—such are the registers in which will be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Meillassoux continues his innovative philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity and eternity . . .

quentin MEILLASSOUX
“The Coup de dés, or the Divinization of the Hypothesis”
Sunday, 05/06
11.00 am-6.00 pm / Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
new york, NEW YORK 10002