Mark West: ” Surviving Logic” [Lecture]
THURSDAY Nov-11 @ 6:30pm EST
[Public Livestream Link]
MARK WEST:
“Surviving Logic: hallucinatory drawings and technical inventions”
Sponsor: Kenneth Warriner Memorial Lecture
Rensselaer School of Architecture concludes its Fall 2021 Lecture Series this Wednesday November 11nd at 6:30pm EST with the online lecture “Surviving Logic: hallucinatory drawings and technical inventions” by architect Mark West.
Montreal-based architect Mark West merges the disciplines of sculpture, architectural design, structural engineering and drawing. His work in the realms of both art and technical research has received international recognition through numerous publications, lectures and awards.
He is the inventor of fabric-formed concrete techniques for architecture and engineering structures, and was the Founding Director of C.A.S.T., the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology at the University of Manitoba where he held appointments in both Architecture and Civil Engineering. He is the author of The Fabric Formwork Book (Routledge, 2016).
West began his working life as a carpenter, eventually studying architecture at the Cooper Union and Carleton University, before establishing his thirty-year career as a professor of architecture, with appointments in departments of both architecture and civil engineering at universities around the world, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Washington in the USA, Aarhus University and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark, the University of Edinburgh and University of Bath in the UK, and MEF University in Turkey.
In 2017, he moved to Montreal and established Surviving Logic, his studio where he continues his architectural and visual explorations as an independent artist and builder.