Alejandro Zaera-Polo: Envelopes
AZPML (Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno Architecture) is an international practice based in London, Zurich, Barcelona, and Princeton. The firm was established in the post split of FOA and has a strong commitment to innovation in architecture and urban design.
Mark Burry: Gaudi + The 4th Dimension
Perhaps most well known for his work on the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Mark Burry is an established international architect focused primarily on putting theory into practice with regard to ‘challenging’ architecture. He is the Director of RMIT University’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and is also the founding director of RMIT University’s Design Research Institute.
Anna Dyson: Built Ecologies
Anna Dyson is an educator at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer. She is the director of The Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology (CASE), which hosts the Graduate Program in Architectural Sciences, concentrated in Built Ecologies. Anna Dyson Work
David Reed: Vampire Painting
Painter David Reed is known for works which are engaged in a crossover between film, electronic media, and everyday culture. His works are exhibited in numerous museums across the world, including the Guggenheim in New York City and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Matias del Campo: Sublime Bodies
Matias del Campos’s work engages natural formations in our environment to create architectural form. He is a founder and partner at SPAN, based in Vienna, Austria.
Prefab Architecture
Prefab Architecture, sponsored by Dave Jepson (class of ’63), showcased the work of prefabricated architecture and its presence in the built world today. The symposium featured lectures by Jennifer Siegel (Office of Mobile Design), Joseph Tanney (Resolution 4 Architecture), Johannes Thordarson (Glama Kim), and Geoffrey Warner (Alchemy Architects).
Jorge Silvetti: Recent Work
Jorge Silvetti is a partner and a founder of Machado and Silvetti Associates (Architecture and Urban Design) based in Boston Massachusetts and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their work is comprised of a careful integration of the clients’ aspirations, the project’s programmatic requirements, and the nature and character of the place for which the proposal is […]
Peter Eisenman (Lecture Spring 2013)
Professor Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Series. A Defense of Architecture. As a world-renown architect, Peter Eisenmans’ professional work is often reflective upon his own writings on the faculty. Both the built and theoretical realm of Eisenman’s works concentrate on studying the layers of physical and cultural archaeologies at each site. Peter Eisenman is an […]
Alisa Andrasek: Open Synthesis
Alisa Andrasek is a researcher, experimental practitioner, and educator of computational architecture and design. She is the founder of Biothing, a research laboratory that concentrates on computational potentials in design.
Neri Oxman: Neri Oxman, MIT Media Lab (Spring 2013 Lecture)
Founder of MIT’s Media Lab, Neri Oxman, has dedicated her profession as a designer and architect towards investigating how our built world can be influenced by fabrication technologies and digital design techniques.