Lecture by Jorge Otero-Pailos

orge Otero-Pailos is an architect, artist, and theorist specialized in experimental preservation. He leads an award-winning international practice devoted to advancing preservation as a forward-looking creative field, and has received many distinctions including UNESCO’s Prominent Professional Award. He contributes broad expert knowledge in, and strategic thinking on, all aspects and scales of preservation, and collaborates with […]

Architecture at Zero

Architecture students and their advisor, Leticia SooHoo, present their entry for the Architecture at Zero competition. The competition site for 2014 is Jack London Gateway in Oakland, CA. AcademyofArtU

Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy?

When asked to build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago, Alejandro Aravena looked to an unusual inspiration: the wisdom of favelas and slums. Rather than building a large building with small units, he built flexible half-homes that each family could expand on. It was a complex problem, but with a simple solution […]

Practice Platform Panel: “Talking Practice”

This event addresses expanded modes of contemporary design practice and the disciplinary potential of these innovative models. Representing some of the many new forms of design practice, from hybrid and curatorial practice to open platform and corporate acquisition, the speakers will reflect on the how and why of their practices, sharing concepts, processes, methods, and […]

Nicholas Fox Weber and Toshiko Mori, “Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect”

Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will evoke the personality and sensibilities of Josef Albers, the Bauhaus faculty member, through reflections on his personal acquaintance with Albers at Yale as well as descriptions of recent projects by the Albers Foundation that affirm the Bauhaus spirit of design and continue its […]

Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques”

At a moment of dissolution in design, technique is all an architect can grasp. Techniques occupy a beautifully indeterminate void on the fault line between theory and practice. Spared of reductive allegiance to either, design techniques are uniquely powerful.A technique may disrupt, innovate, communicate, or surprise. At the same time, techniques stand as silent markers […]

Eli Synnevåg, Senior Architect MNAL, Snøhetta

Introduction lecture of Eli Synnevåg, Senior Architect MNAL, Snøhetta, Norway, at Helsinki Design Week Marketing Ruukki

ARH Lecture Series – Snøhetta

Guest speaker Michelle Delk shares her insight on being the Director of Landscape Architecture at Snøhetta and how landscape design and architecture integrate within projects. AcademyofArtU In 1987 the landscape architects Inge Dahlman, Berit Hartveit and Johan Østengen contacted landscape architects Alf Haukeland, and architects Øyvind Mo and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen to join together to […]

ARH Lecture Series – space&matter

Co-Founder Sascha Glasl gives a look into the unique techniques of his Amsterdam based firm. AcademyofArtU

Peter Zumthor Presence in Architecture, Seven Personal Observations

The David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University Present : Lecture by Peter Zumthor “Presence in Architecture, Seven Personal Observations” School of Architecture

Bjarke Ingels, “Worldcraft”

Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, New York, and Beijing), is known for technically innovative buildings that challenge conventional architectural programs. Recent projects include the Danish Maritime Museum (2013), 8 House (2012), West 57th (2012), and Superkilen master plan (2012). His numerous awards include AIA Honor Awards, the Crown Prince Culture Prize […]

Joseph Disponzio, ” On the Theoretical and Practical Development of Landscape Architecture”

Exploring the transformation of the modeling of land from garden-making to landscape architecture, this lecture by Joseph Disponzio will establish the intellectual origins of landscape architecture in relation to the new garden practices that emerged during the 18th century, and the texts that codified these practices, amid Enlightenment-era changes in the understanding of nature. Disponzio […]