Recent Lecture: Hernan Diaz Alonso
Mon 17, 6pm @ EMPAC. “FORM & GLOOM.” Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of Xefirotarch, a Los Angeles-based design practice. Considered one of the most influential voices of his generation, Diaz Alonso assumed the new role of Graduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc, after having coordinate the school’s graduate thesis process for the past several years. […]
Ning Xiang: Acoustic in Coupled Spaces
Tue. March 4, 6pm @ Greene Gallery. Ning Xiang: “Acoustic in Coupled Spaces”. [Browns Fellow Presentation] Professor Ning Xiang, Acoustic Program’s Director will present highlights of his 2012 Browns Fellowship research traveling. Recent applications of coupled-volume systems in concert halls and stage-house adaptations in opera houses and theaters have prompted increasing interest in Architectural Acoustics. […]
RECENT LECTURE: CATHERINE INGRAHAM
Wed Feb 26, 6PM @ EMPAC “Plasticity: Architecture and New Natures”. Catherine Ingraham is Professor of Architecture in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she formerly served as Chair of Architecture from 1999-2005. Ingraham’s contributions to architectural culture are perhaps best summarized as an expansion beyond traditional disciplinary domains […]
Recent Lecture: Roger Duffy
Mon Jan 27, 6pm @ EMPAC “S.O.M. An Evolving Legacy.” Roger Duffy is an American architect, known “for rigorous and unconventional approach to design” [Metropolis magazine]. He currently works as a partner at the renown firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He has been a design partner in the New York office since 1995, and is a member of the American Institute of […]
Yugoslavia as Pangaea
Wed Jan 29, 6 pm @ Greene Gallery, ALEX DORN (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: Yugoslavia as Pangaea. First Robert S. Brown Traveling Fellowship lecture of the semester – this coming Wednesday, January 29 at 6 PM, Greene Gallery. Alumni Alex Dorn’s lecture YUGOSLAVIA AS PANGAEA is presented as “a study of boundaries: shifts and […]
Recent Lecture: Philip Yuan
Thu Nov 21, 6pm @ EMPAC “Autonomous Tectonics”. Dr Philip F. Yuan is Associate Professor at the Architecture and Planning Institute of Tongji University, Shanghai, Director of Archi-Union Architects, and a member of the Shanghai Urban & Planning Consultant Community. He has won the following important domestic and international design awards: 2nd prize for Excellent […]
Recent Lecture: coop himmelb(l)au > WOLF PRIX
Mon Nov 4th, 6pm @ EMPAC Don’t worry. In two days tomorrow will be yesterday. Coop Himmelblau, also rendered Coop Himmelb(l)au, avant-garde architecture firm that rose to prominence in the 1980s and ’90s. The two central members were Wolf D. Prix (b. December 13, 1942, Vienna, Austria) and Helmut Swiczinsky (b. January 13, 1944, Poznań, Poland). Coop Himmelblau was founded in 1968 by Prix, […]
Recent Lecture: Elena Manferdini
Wed Oct 16th, 6pm @ EMPAC. “Unplugged”. Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office in Los Angeles, California. The office is based on a multi-scale […]
Recent Lecture: Shinichi Ogawa
Mon Oct 7th, 6pm @ EMPAC. “Invisible Detail: Between Minimal and Maximal”. Japanese architect Shinichi Ogawa was born in Yamaguchi. He received his diploma from Nihon University in 1978. While studying, he participated in a exchange scholarship program at Washington State University. In 1984, he was awarded a fellowship from the Japanese government to study […]
Recent Lecture: Odile Decq
Thu Sep 26, 6pm @ EMPAC. “Horizons”. Odile Decq is an award-winning French architect and academic. She is the director of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq, previously known as Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architectes Urbanistes or ODBC Architectes. Related links: www.odiledecq.com/ After graduating in architecture in 1978, Decq received a Diploma in Urbanism and Planning […]