new york NY

Permanent Change: Plastics In Architecture And Engineering
Wednesday 30 March – 1 April
Columbia GSAPP
Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY

los angeles CA

A Composite Tectonics Conference on Advanced Materials and Digital Manufacturing
Friday 25 March 6:00 pm
Saturday 26 March 10:00 am
SCI-Arc
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA

Fostering direct exchange between architects and companies invested in the field of advanced materials and fabrication technologies, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) hosts Material beyond Materials—a composite tectonics conference on advanced materials and digital manufacturing.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 PM–6:30 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00 AM–4:15 PM

Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, inspires and adapts. The presentations and hosted conversations by the international roster of speakers are free and open to the public.

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london UK

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.

Keynote Speakers: Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Neri Oxman and Matthias Kohler

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2004

before bernard TSCHUMI stepped down as dean of the gsapp, he held a conference in new york inviting forty architects and theorists to take on the state of architectural practice at the start of the 21st century. the essays, conversations, and manifestos revolved around categories such as form, aesthetics, politics, detail, electronics, and material. the book features forty essays including peter eisenman’s the affects of disaster, sylvia lavin’s how architecture stopped being the 97 pound weakling and became cool, jeff kipnis’s form’s second coming, sanford kwinter’s four arguments for the elimination of architecture (long live architecture), and others by lars spuybroek, greg lynn, hani rashid, mark wigley, terrence riley, karl chu, zaha hadid, thom mayne.

90-00

there are ten books documenting the ten conferences held by cythia davidson’s any corporation in the 90s. within these books contains the major architects, discourses, and arguments within architecture during the decade and the beginning of the digital age. beautifully designed with discussions and lecture transcriptions from speakers such as greg lynn, peter eisenman, zaha hadid, jeff kipnis, robert somol, jaques derrida, william gibson, ben van berkel, and sanford kwinter. sylvia lavin.

los angeles CALIFORNIA

for some time now, digital technologies have had a substantial impact on architectural design. from the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools. but how might these digital technologies – and parametric design tools in particular – help us to design cities?

entrance is free on registration.

1212.09 conference, taper hall 101, university of southern california