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Vague Formations
soma sees architecture as an ongoing inquiry and a field for experimentation. The team’s activities range from the development of contemporary digital design strategies to the implementation of advanced geometries and theoretical research. Rather than representing fixed meanings, soma’s buildings produce an evocative ambiguity to give rise to a multitude of individual readings. In that sense their name (greek for body) has a double connotation. soma understands architecture itself as a body – potentially mutable and constantly transforming; secondly it refers to space as an atmospheric interaction between the body and its environment…
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Architecture deals with the process of transforming amorphous matter into structured elements. We propose to explore this for the particular case of Ultra High Performance Fibered Concrete (UHPC): this talk is about making explicit the links between material properties and fabrication in a precast environment…
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Canadian Immigration Facilities and the Production of Space
Beginning in the mid-19th century, Canadian governments built a network of immigration architecture across the country. “Immigration sheds,” where transoceanic liners would dock, immigrants would be processed, and trains of colonist cars would whisk them away to remote areas of Canada, were complemented by a wide range of quarantine, hostelling, and support facilities in receiving areas. Portions of this network of immigration facilities were in operation, with changes, up to the 1960s when immigrants increasingly arrived by air, and came from farther away…
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A lecture by Professor Thea Brejzek.
Professor of Spatial Theory, University of Technology Sydney and VIsiting Professor at the Bartlett.
Thea’s research is in the history and theory of scenography and performative environments with a particular interest in transdisciplinary practices and the politics of space in performance.
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Turing makes an (implicit) distinction in the passage from his ‘imitation game’ (the 1950 paper on a computer imitating a woman) and the ‘model’ paper (his 1952 work on bio-physical morphogenesis). The model tries to spell out a ‘causal structure: in the 1952 paper, the continuous mathematical dynamics of a genesis of forms as an ‘action/reaction/diffusion’ system. An imitation only pretends to mimic, or to cheat an observer, without commitment on the causal structure of the intended phenomenon: a discrete state machine (DSM, as Turing calls his Machine in 1950) imitating a brain.
A finer comparison will be hinted by analyzing the way randomness is treated by the imitating/modeling technique…
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Ben Addy co-founded Moxon Architects in 2004. In 2005 he became the youngest recipient ever of the Architects’ Journal / Corus Steel 40 under 40 award for the most promising young architects in the UK.
He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and The Bartlett School of Architecture. During this time he received numerous awards, including: The Edinburgh Architectural Association J.R. Mackay Medal, a RIBA commendation and a Distinction from UCL for his Diploma thesis…
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The Age of Less—Nostalgia, a two-day symposium that brings together the fields of visual art, design, architecture and theory, aims to discuss existing or past values in relation to possibly new behaviours that have emerged within the framework of, and in response to, the financial crisis. In particular, our focus will be on questioning how the so-called “creative industry” is dealing with and reacting to the present situation.
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Drawing Uncertainty
The architectural program makes sweeping generalisations about how we inhabit architecture. Nat will show a series of drawing instruments that speculate about ways of discussing the indeterminate in architecture. The talk will include recent work on paradoxical shadows and some new drawing instruments that are in progress…
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Fashioning Apollo
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore 21-layer fabric-and-latex spacesuits crafted by seamstresses taken from the assembly-line of Playtex, maker of bras and girdles. Nicholas de Monchaux’s recent Book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century…
