pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Sanford Kwinter is Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program and Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has written widely on philosophical issues of design, architecture and urbanism, science and technology, and was an editorial member of the ANY conferences and publications in the 1990s as well as of the journal Assemblage. He most recently curated a Harvard University-wide exhibition of art, design and the public domain entitled “The Divine Comedy.” He is currently at work on a book on paleo-ecology and the origins of form.

Sanford KWINTER
Saturday, 02/09
2.00 pm / Kresge Theater
Carnegie Museum
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

The architect is no longer an organizer of matter and space, but a designer of systems with multi-layered components and increasingly complex relationships. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 invites rising superstars, experienced researchers and designers to present experimental work derived through computational thinking and digital making. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 positions the field as an alloy of programming, digital tooling, art and science.

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[En]Coding Architecture 2013
02/07–02/09 / Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Pierre Hermé, widely considered as today’s foremost pastry chef, will expose three of his creations, retracing them from their original intuition to the elaboration of their flavors, textures, and formal manifestations, ultimately giving each its own character and ability to provide us with a new way of discovering the world.
 . . . His work demonstrates a rigor and sensibility that have created a new grammar whose richness is in line with the growing interest in cross-disciplinary thinking in design fields—laying foundations of what can be called the Architecture of Taste.

Pierre Hermé, “The Architecture of Taste”
w/ Sanford Kwinter and Savinien Caracostea
Tuesday, 11/27
6.30 pm / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
Harvard GSD
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA

venice ITALY

Join Log editor Cynthia Davidson at the 2012 Venice Biennale for a conversation on writing and architecture with contributors Pier Vittorio Aureli, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Sanford Kwinter, and François Roche.

Writing Architecture: The Common Ground of the Printed Page
Tuesday, 08/28
2.30–3.30 pm / Spazio Esedra
Giardini della Biennale
(Adjacent to Book Pavilion)
Sestiere Castello, 30122
Venezia, Italy

boston MASSACHUSETTS

Digital Aptitudes
ACSA 100th Annual Meeting
March 1-4, 2012 in Boston, MA
Host School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-chairs: Mark Goulthorpe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amy Murphy, University of Southern California
Presenters: Including Sanford Kwinter, Jeffrey Kipnis, Ingeborg Rocker, Kathryn Gustafson, Mark Burry, Anthony Vidler, Michael Silver, Michael Young, Volkan Alkanoglu, Skylar Tibbits, & more.

Digital Aptitudes: Opening Panel & Reception
Sanford Kwinter, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Kathryn Gustafson, Mark Burry
Thurday, 03/01
6.00–8.30 pm / Boston Park Plaza
50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116

los angeles CA

sanford KWINTER
Tuesday 5 April 7:00 pm
SCI-Arc / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA

san francisco CALIFORNIA

sanford KWINTER
Monday, April 4
7.00pm / Timken Lecture Hall at CCA
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco CA 94107

vienna AUSTRIA

the recent challenges of environmental science and activism have not been met by the architectural profession with innovative intellectual or imaginative propositions. and yet, it is the task of the design disciplines to discover new ways of understanding the human relationship to the environment, even ones that leave much of its past conventions behind. “ecological thinking” represents one such radical foundational departure, but it is one that should not be seen as foreign to the design disciplines, for it has everything to do with how forms are made and how they arrive in our midst.

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2008

actar: sanford KWINTER ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture. critical essays offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. far-reaching in scope, far from equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what kwinter describes as radical anamnesis: the imagination’s escape from the sterile logic of what is. compiling over a decade of architectural and critical writings, many published here for the first time, far from equilibrium is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of architecture and criticism today. a primer for (re)thinking design in the 21st century.