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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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.

ON ARCHITECTURED MATERIAL
Lecture by Sarat Babu (Betatype)

Dr. Sarat Babu is a material scientist and designer that has focused on converging both disciplines into a singular practice. To that end he founded Betatype, an entity focusing on developing materials and future products through new manufacturing process. Betatype focuses on physical making at the heart of its methods, alloying both technical analysis and craft techniques to simultaneously design materials and forms that can create a new generation of products.

This lecture is part of the School of Architecture's Fall 2014 Student Lecture Series.

CONCIOUS/UNCONSCIOUS LANDSCAPES

Lecture by Walter Hood

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

Walter Hood's firm works primarily in the urban public realm, with projects ranging from small, community-based interventions to large-scale landscape commissions. His landscapes address the complexities of urban space by particularizing and layering function, incorporating what he terms "hybrid" spatial strategies, a pragmatic multifocal approach to design that Hood described in a recent article as reflecting "collisions of differing points of view, which 'fuse the un-fuseable.'"

OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES 

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS 

ALUMNI NEWS* 

Peggy Deamer (AR '77) | lecture | "Conversations with Practice: Peggy Deamer," Newcastle University,  Newcastle upon Tyne, England, November 12, 2014

Alexander Gorlin (AR '78) | article | "Contemporary Beach House by Leading Architect Alexander Gorlin," Ocean Home Magazine, October-November 2014

Lee Skolnick (AR '79) | article | "New Kids on the Bloc: American Architects in the Post-Soviet World," Dwell, November 7, 2014

Chris Benedict (AR '86) | speaker | "The Perfect Energy Code," Center for Architecture, New York, NY, November 25, 2014

Jeffrey Hou (AR '90) | speaker | "Building Together: the History and Future of Advocacy Design and Participatory Planning," Pratt Institute, November 21-22, 2014

Catherine Seavitt (AR '94) | panelist | "Structures of Coastal Resilience: Designing for Climate Change," Center for Architecture, New York, NY, November 25, 2014