london UNITED KINGDOM

Behavioural Matter will discuss Kokkugia’s long term research into self-organisational processes within design. Kokkugia has developed agent based methodologies for a wide range of architectural projects that articulate spatial, structural, environmental, and material organisational strategies. Working at micro and marco scales, Kokkugia’s work embraces the sciences of complexity, and seeks to develop architecture as emergent phenomena.

Robert Stuart-Smith is a Design Director and a Founding Partner of Kokkugia.

robert STUART-SMITH
“Behavioural Matter”
Wednesday, 02/01
04:00 – 06:00 pm / Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building
Bartlett School of Architecture
Gower Street
London WC1H 0QB

lexington KENTUCKY

Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, will give a series of six public lectures titled, “Where We Are Now,” that will explore current issues in contemporary architecture.

January 11—”Introduction”; February 1—”Postmodernism: A Closer look; from Complexity & Contradiction to Classicism”; February 29—”The Netherlands: Project Based Working”; March 28—”Rise of the Machine: Computer and Communication Technologies”; April 11—”The Global Networks: Building in Sprawl”; April 25—”Hunting And Gathering: Reuse and Collage”

aaron BETSKY
Wednesday, 01/11; 02/01; 02/29; 03/28; 04/11; 04/25
07:00 pm / Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Joel Sanders and Diana Balmori will discuss their book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, which examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Joel Sanders is the Principal of the New York–based practice Joel Sanders Architect and a Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Diana Balmori, the founding principal of Balmori Associates, is recognized internationally for her creative interplay between landscape and architecture.

diana BALMORI and joel SANDERS
lecture: “Interface: Between Landscape and Architecture”
Tuesday, 01/31
6.30–8.00 pm / Location TBA
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
48 Quincy
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

new york NEW YORK

Lisa Snyder (Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA) specializes in the use of interactive virtual reality environments to study and teach about historic urban environments. For the Israel Antiquities Authority, she created a 3-D interactive digital reconstruction of the Temple Mount complex, and, more recently, she’s developed a computer simulation of the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition. Based on extensive archaeological and historical research, her highly detailed computer reconstructions allow users to explore built environments that no longer exist.

lisa SNYDER
lecture: “Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged?”
Tuesday, 01/31
4.00–5.30 pm / Room 114, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

new york NEW YORK

“The machine aesthetic is everywhere,” observed the New York Times of HL23 when it rose above the High Line in 2011, noting that the 14-story Chelsea building’s eastern panels were partially manufactured on the same presses used to make parts for Mercedes trucks. This event brings Los Angeles architect Neil Denari (NMDA) and New York developer Alf Naman (Alf Naman Real Estate Advisors) together to discuss HL23’s realization, from its aerodynamic design and site relationship to its significance for New York’s high-end real estate market.

neil DENARI & alf NAMAN
lecture: “High Design at HL23″
Monday, 01/30
7.30–9.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

london UNITED KINGDOM

Adrian Forty is professor of architectural history at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His book Words and Buildings, a Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (2000) will be republished by Thames and Hudson in early 2012 and his new book, Concrete and Culture, will also appear in 2012.

adrian FORTY
“Concrete and Culture,” Architecture and Education Series organized by Mark Cousins
Monday, 01/30
6.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

This term Mark Cousins’s Friday evening lectures will deal with the fact that commonplaces nonetheless frequently exercise a powerful attraction—it will attempt to account for this by reference to the Imaginary. The series will take place on the following dates at 5.00 pm: February 3rd, March 2nd, March 9th.

mark COUSINS
“The Poetics of Cliché”
Friday, 01/27
7.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

Christy Lange has noted that Beasley’s ‘sculptures and photographs, as mute and minimal as they appear, unexpectedly open onto literary worlds’. Working between sculpture and photography – often printing at a 1:1 scale – allows Beasley to ask sculptural questions of the photographic and to interrogate the sculptural from the position of the photographic object. Conceptual and instinctual attitudes are bound intensely into the centre of her practice. . . .

becky BEASLEY
Feet & Hinges (and Other Literary Models): Artist Talks Series organized by Parveen Adams
Friday, 01/27
6.30 pm /
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

new york NEW YORK

London and Berlin-based architect David Adjaye kicks off the spring 2012 GSAPP lecture series by questioning the meaning of time. When is now, and how does it manifest in his recent work? Projects range from the ephemeral to the institutional (“Genesis,” Design Miami; Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo), and from the contemporary to the historic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC).

david ADJAYE
lecture: “When is now? ”
Wednesday, 01/25
6.30–8.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

los angeles CALIFORNIA

michel ROJKIND
Wednesday, 01/25
7.00 pm / W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013