DRAWING FROM THE ARCHIVE

Analysis as Design

Presenting analysis work completed at The School of Architecture between 1967 and 2014, this exhibition will celebrate the school's unique approach to analysis as a didactic, structural and abstract discipline. Drawing from the Architecture Archive's collection of student projects, the show will examine significant works of architecture from the Renaissance through the modern period, as well as recently completed buildings. The exhibition will present a broad range of techniques of analysis and representation, which have evolved radically in recent years-from precisely constructed hand drawings to digital drawings and virtual processes that explore new modes of analysis using a variety of materials and tools within a single project.

October 14 - November 26, 2013

This exhibition has been made possible with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

This exhibition is a program of Archtober, Architecture and Design Month, New York City, October 2014.

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LECTURE BY AARON SPRECHER

Median Space: Architecture and the Informed Environment

This lecture is part of the 2014 Master of Architecture II Lecture Series.

With the development of information theories and related technologies in the postwar period, the notion of design performance became inherently associated with the ability of a given system to exchange information with its environment. Such a perception of design marked a shift from a mere representation of reality to the development of systems that would ensure the conditions for its emergence. With the increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, this condition has triggered numerous projects and researches that aimed at developing environments where information would be considered as the common currency for all the constituents of the world - being organic or non-organic, living or inert, physical or virtual.

Aaron Sprecher is Associate Professor at the McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal. He is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture (www.o-s-a.com), a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design, engineering, media research, history, and theory.

Introduced by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Free and Open to the Public

INTERNSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (IDP)

Panel Discussion

CONCEPT AND NOTATION

Lecture by Bernard Tschumi

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York.

Bernard Tschumi's buildings and theoretical writings have significantly influenced architectural form and discourse for over forty years. A recent comprehensive retrospective of his work at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, provided visitors with a visual, documentary, and experiential survey of his practice. Tschumi's design for the exhibition reflects his approach to understanding architecture, as he describes in the catalogue Architecture: Concept & Notation, "the art of inventing concepts in space through materials."

Bernard Tschumi founded his practice in 1983 in Paris after winning the Parc de La Villette competition, his first major commission. He opened Bernard Tschumi Architects based in New York City in 1988, and Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes based in Paris in 2002. Notable works include the New Acropolis Museum, Athens; as well as Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing, France; and the Limoges Concert Hall, Limoges, France. Current work includes Carnal Hall, at Le Rosey, the Swiss boarding school, as well as the Muséoparc Alésia, Alise-Sainte-Reine, France, and the Paris Zoo. Other current projects include the Vacheron Constantin Headquarters addition, Geneva, and the New Hague Passage, The Hague.

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ALUMNI NEWS* 

Elizabeth Diller (AR '79) | speaker | "Elizabeth Diller: Beyond the Blueprints", 25 Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL, November 9, 2014

Cristina Aguirre-Ross (AR '81) | co-author | Midcentury Houses Today, Monacelli Press, 2014 

Vladimir Belogolovsky (AR '96) | curator | "Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture," Museum of Sydney, November 1, 2014 -  March 8, 2015

OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee, AR '97) | installation | World Script Symposia 2014, outdoor exhibition, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, on view October 24 - November 2, 2014

Gerri Davis (AR '03) | featured artist | 11th Annual Garment District Arts Festival, New York, NY, October 23-25, 2014 

Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny (AR '05) | speaker | "Grow: Practice, Profession, and Career: Cultivating the Next Generation of Architectural Leaders," Center for Architecture, New York, NY, November 9,2014