london UNITED KINGDOM

Massive addressability is a defining characteristic of our rapidly accelerating global network of connections, and emerges when cities, buildings, materials, objects, creatures, sites, books, words, molecules, all act as agents in a global, reciprocal ontology of things that can find each other. Across longer timeframes—decades, centuries, or millennia—this set of relations inevitably scales up to the post-planetary. We cannot think of design a century from now without taking it off planet. The consequences of this leap are profound. . . .

ed KELLER
“Massive Addressability & Post-Planetary Design”
Wednesday, 04/25
6.30–8.00 pm /Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Gower Street
London, UNITED KINGDOM WC1

new york NEW YORK

Street Views: Exploring our connection to the built environment through documentaries, narratives and experimental works.

Psychohydragraphy: Peter Bo Rappmund’s singular film, composed entirely of single frame photography and a highly crafted sound track, is a hypnotic meditation on the hidden infrastructure of modern life and the secret life of the one element that makes it all possible . . . water.

Followed by a Q&A with Artist Sarah Oppenheimer, architect Wes Rozen (SITU STUDIO) and architect Uri Wegman (The Cooper Union), moderated by Paul Dallas.

Sarah Oppenheimer, Wes Rozen, & Uri Wegman
Tuesday, 04/24
7.30 pm / Maysles Institute
343 Lenox Avenue
New York, NEW YORK 10027

college station TEXAS

Roland Snooks, design director and founding partner of Kokkugia, a progressive architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York and London, will present “Volatile Formation,” the final lecture in Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s Spring 2012 Lecture Series.

roland SNOOKS
Monday, 04/23
5.30 pm / Preston Geren Auitorium
Building B, Langford Architecture Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843

new york NEW YORK

Discussions between NEWLY DRAWN emerging Finnish firms and New York based winning firms of the AIANY’s New Practices and the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices. The roundtable sessions will focus on sharing and comparing experiences of setting up architectural practices in Helsinki and NY. Short presentations on the history and origins of each practice and their work will provide 15 different perspectives on establishing and running an office. The participants will also discuss their architectural motives, influences, techniques and agendas . . .

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Newly Drawn: Emerging Finnish Architects
Saturday, 04/21
1.00–7.00 pm / Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
new york, NEW YORK 10012

newark NEW JERSEY

Preston Scott Cohen, principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. and the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard’s GSD, lectures on “Attenuation” at the New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Architecture and Design.

preston scott COHEN
Thursday, 04/19
5.30 pm / Weston Lecture Hall 1
New Jersey Institute of Technology CoAD
Newark, New Jersey 07102

new york NEW YORK

Peter Eisenman speaks on “Project and Practice,” part of Cooper Union’s student lecture series, on Thursday, April 19.

Peter Eisenman is the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at Yale University and principal of Eisenman Architects. He has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses. His current projects include the six-building City of Culture of Galacia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a large condominium housing block in Milan, Italy.

Peter Eisenman
Thursday, 04/19
6.00-8.00 pm / The Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
Cooper Square
new york, NEW YORK 10003

vienna AUSTRIA

Matias del Campo heads the Vienna-based Architecture firm SPAN, founded together with Sandra Manninger in 2003. His award winning architecture designs are informed by an ecology of sources including Romanticism, Geometry, Biology and Botany. Employing among the most sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools, SPAN has become among the leaders of a new generation of form based practices in Europe. . . . SPAN’s work explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of advanced design techniques as a launching platform for the design of architectural conditions, simultaneously exploring the discursive implications of the individual projects.

matias del CAMPO
Tuesday, 04/17
7.00 pm / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 A-1010
vienna, AUSTRIA

new haven CONNECTICUT

michael KIMMELMAN
Monday, 04/16
6.15 pm / Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

new haven CONNECTICUT

conversation: frank O. GEHRY & paul GOLDBERGER
Thursday, 04/12
6.15 pm / Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture

180 York Street

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

new york NEW YORK

URBAN PLANET will reflect on the urgency to affect change in urbanization practices when confronted with the context of unviable “territorial ecologies,” defined as spheres of sustainable interaction between humans and their environment. The guest speakers will shape an explicit understanding of different urban contexts examined via the lens of ecological viability and speculate open-ended alternative urban futures. . . . We aim to reveal the inner workings of emerging urban and demonstrate the inevitability of this discussion in our overpopulated and URBAN PLANET.

URBAN PLANET (with Vidler, KALLIPOLITI, JOACHIM, & more).
Tuesday, 04/10
6.00 pm / Rose Auditorium
Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NEW YORK 10003