[recent lecture] STELARC
Mon May 2nd – Theater STELARC: “The Involuntary, the Automated and the Uncanny: Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras”_ STELARC (Stelios Arcadiou) is an Australian performance artist, born in Limassol, island of Cyprus. After moving to Australia, he studied Arts and Craft at T.S.T.C., Art and Technology at CAUTECH and M.R.I.T., Melbourne University. Stelarc has taught Art […]
[recent lecture] Heneghan Peng
Wed Mar-2, 6pm @ EMPAC. “SETTING OUT”: HENEGHAN PENG Heneghan Peng Architects (hparc) is a design partnership practicing architecture, landscape and urban design. The practice was founded by Shih-Fu Peng and Róisín Heneghan in New York in 1999 and in 2001 they relocated their main office to Dublin, Ireland. Heneghan Peng Architects advocates a multi-disciplinary approach […]
[recent lecture] Cristian Nanzer
Mon Feb-22, 6pm @ EMPAC. “INHABITED TERRITORIES. FROM INTIMATE TO PUBLIC”: CRISTIAN NANZER Argentinean architect Cristian Nanzer developed his practice in his native province of Cordoba, where his design work ranges from private residences in partnership with Mariela Marchisio, to public scale projects with several design partnerships and collaborations. Among his practice’s selected wining competition proposals […]
Spring 2017 Lecture Series
Höweler + Yoon; Kunlé Adeyemi; William Horgan (Grimshaw Partners); Marcelo Spina (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S); Pezo von Ellrichshausen; and Rick Joy. All events start 6:00pm at EMPAC. 110 8th Street / Troy, NY 12180. Admission is free.
[Recent Lecture] Maurice Cox, Detroit Planning Director
Mon Feb-01, 6pm @ EMPAC: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE: NEW ORLEANS / DETROIT. Maurice Cox, Planning Director City of Detroit_ Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, is planning director for the city of Detroit. Prior to moving to Michigan, he was director of Tulane City Center and […]
[Recent Lecture] Testa & Weiser
Mon. Nov. 16th @ EMPAC PETER TESTA & DEVYN WEISER: Superpositions Testa & Weiser is a Los Angeles based architecture and design studio founded by partners Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser in 2002. The studio is known for conceptual and technical breakthroughs that integrate advanced material processes at all scales. From pioneering software applications to […]
Patrick Schumacher : Parametric Order
Patrik Schumacher is partner at the internationally renowned Zaha Hadid Architects studio , and a founding director of the Design Research Lab (DRL) at the Architectural Association in London. ///
[Recent Lecture] Marie Ange-Brayer
Thu Oct 29, 6pm @ EMPAC: Marie Ange-Brayer: “Naturalizing Architecture” Archilab Marie-Ange Brayer is currently Chief Curator of Design and Industrial Perspective for the MNAM-CCI collection at the Centre Pompidou, the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. From 1996 to 2014 Brayer was director of the Frac Centre in Orleans, France and in […]
[Recent Lecture] Steven Ehrlich
Mon Oct 26 6pm @ EMPAC: Steven Ehrlich: “Evolving Multicultural Modernism”_ Steven Ehrlich, founding partner of Ehrlich Architects and member RPI class of ’68, learned early on the significance of how architecture responds to the culture and the environment – he is a self-proclaimed “architectural anthropologist.” Upon graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor […]
[Recent Lecture] Jenny Sabin
Wed Oct-14 6pm @ EMPAC: Jenny Sabin: “Matter Design Computation: Cells, Bits and Atoms”_ Jenny Sabin’s work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. […]