Sou Fujimoto, “Between Nature and Architecture”
In this lecture Fujimoto will discuss the relationship between nature and architecture…
Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Alison Brooks, “Model Building Model: Making Oxford’s New Collegiate Architecture”
Alison Brooks has recently completed Oxford’s newest academic building,…
Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”
The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500…
Reinier de Graaf, “Phantom Urbanism”
Once cities were designed to accommodate the masses; today the masses have…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech
If recent theory has highlighted architecture’s turn to evident resemblance and signification, we argue this tendency has also produced its other: The landscape of contemporary practice is filled with work whose motivating interests are anterior to meaning and averse to thematization; they are, in a…
Amanda Levete
Amanda Levete will discuss AL_A’s latest projects, with…
Open House Lecture: Jeanne Gang, “Thinking Through Practice and Research”
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang,…
Peter Märkli, “My Profession, The Art of Building”
Peter Märkli was born in 1953. He lives and works as architect…
Thomas Phifer, “Recent Work”
Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm, Thomas Phifer and Partners has designed…