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Rome Matters Symposium
Thursday, 11/3
6.00 PM / Higgins Hall Auditorium
Pratt School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Pippo CIORRA, Architect, MAXXI, Rome; William MENKING, Moderator and Professor at Pratt; Frederick BIEHLE, Professor at Pratt and Director of Pratt in Rome; Alicia IMPERIALE, Professor at Temple University; Mark RAKATANSKY, Professor at Pratt

The ancient language of Rome ties into the School’s semester long concentration on Latin Architecture. With a panel including Rome’s Pippo Ciorra, the debate of how centuries old architecture continues to inform the work of contemporary descendents will give new perspectives on old buildings and new structures alike.

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carla LORES + michael YARINSKY: New York City’s Watershed is a site in crisis. Not only is there a larger demand for water due to the growth of the population, but due to further suburban development in upland areas, water catchment sites are not as hygienic as once thought. Within the Croton Watershed lies Carmel. This suburban town in Putnam County has large basins for water catchment integrated into a developed suburban community. The distributed system currently in place for the dispersal of sewage, though, has a very high risk of contaminating the watershed.

Instructors: Michael CHEN + Jason LEE

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carlos GONZALEZ: Post-Romantic Urbanism for the Anthropocene Era. Arborescence is looking for a signifier with the understanding of the inexistence of nature and cities; there is only one system that needs to coexist. With the design of each element of the system, architecture becomes unique. In the large scale the uniqueness becomes anonymous. This architecture is a large-scale guidance of design with anonymous materials for the Anthropocene Era.

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evan TRIBUS+ezra ARDOLINO: Historically, the most critical element in the delivery system of ornamental effects was applied molding. From the Greeks and Romans to the Renaissance, Gothic and Baroque through the Victorian period, exterior and interior moldings served to provoke visual interest through the play of light and shadow across its articulated surfaces. Moreover, molding was underwritten by the relationship between the precision of its inherent geometry (a cross-section extruded along an axis) and its effectual geometries (the surfaces that receive light and project shadow).

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chandler AHRENS+john CARPENTER+axel SCHMITZBERGER+michael w. SU: Inaugurated on the occasion of the conference ACADIA 2010 LIFE in:formation, the exhibition Evolutive Means examines concepts, tools and technologies that implement responsive and generative aspects of information in the design process.

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maryam FAYYAZ: The E – formations research project asserts that architecture takes place on the edge of real and virtual. Virtual is projected onto the real to create alternate spaces and multiply the experience of the user. In this way architecture exists in layers and user has the control to switch in between the different layers of experience. It erases the concept of location and orientation for the person within the space and is very much the same phenomena as on the World Wide Web where we exist as text and image – phantoms of our own selves.

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cynthia FELS: Overtaking the existing roof gardens of Rockefeller Center, this project is working within the isolated blocks of NYC to create another world. Referencing the painterly effects found in surrealism, the project addresses the complicated relationship between landscape and technology.

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Pratt Institute | Spring 2011
Critics: Ronnie PARSONS + Gil AKOS
Team: Wilson CHENG, Chelsea MAILLER, Woo Young “Joseph” KIM, Paul SCRUGHAM, Eri SEMERZAKIS, + Gillian SHAFFER

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FFM: Form Active Tension Systems offer an intuitive means of gaining direct and tangible knowledge of systems with degrees of complexity typically beyond our capacity, or desire, to engage as designers. Form, Force, Matter investigates this territory through simulation and its application within architectural design.

[DIGITAL FABRICATION/INSTALLATION DISCUSSION]

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reynolds DIAZ jr / chris DORSEY: Chelsea has an interestingly diverse mixture of programmatic activity. In this diversity, a constant flux between private and public interfaces resolves in a fragmented spatial matrix. Program increasingly divides as you move away from the Hudson River. As a result, this filtration of program continues throughout the site.

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Network for Emerging Architectural Research
At the Intersection of Architecture, Nature, Technology

GAUD
Pratt Institute
School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Day 1
Thursday 24 March
6:00 pm / Higgins Hall Auditorium
1.“Are the ecological and the computational movements interconnected?”
Introduction by David Ruy
Panelists: Karl Chu, Edward Eigen, Catherine Ingraham, Sanford Kwinter

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