Saturday, February 27th 12-6 pm Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Sq., New York

“Encounters That Never Happened”

On Saturday, February 27th, Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union jointly hosted a public conference, Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened. The conference steams from Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti scholarly research on closed systems. The Closed Worlds exhibition curated by Professor Kallipoliti and designed by renowned graphic design firm Pentagram Design is an antecedent display to the conference. The exhibition opened last week to the public and will run until April 9th.

Participants Include:

Charles and Ray Eames / Andrés Jaque
General Dynamics / Bess Krietemeyer, HASS Fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE), where she received her Ph.D.
Neil Armstrong / Peder Anker
NASA / Michelle Addington
Jacques Cousteau / Janette Kim
Hans Hollein / Christina Ciardullo
Victor Olgyay / Daniel Barber
John McHale / Anthony Vidler
Walt Disney / Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor, RPI, SoA; Chief Curator/Researcher for Storefront’s Closed Worlds
Buckminster Fuller / Mark Wigley
Howard T. Odum / Anna Dyson, Professor & Director of CASE Director
Peter Van Dresser / Mitchell Joachim, Lecture at EMPAC Monday, April 18th – Concert Hall
Reyner Banham / Eva Franch i Gilabert

SCHEDULE

INTRODUCTION
12:00 Welcome and Introduction by Nader Tehrani, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Dean
12:10 Encounters That Never Happened Overview by Lydia Kallipoliti and Carlos Mínguez
Carrasco

PANEL 1 – LOOPS AND ARROWS
12:15 Hans Hollein / Christina Ciardullo
12:30 Howard T. Odum / Anna Dyson
12:45 John McHale / Anthony Vidler
1:15 Walt Disney / Lydia Kallipoliti in conversation with Hans Hollein, Howard T. Odum, and
John McHale

1:30 Lunch Break

PANEL 2 – OUTERSPACE / INNERSPACE
2:30 General Dynamics / Bess Krietemeyer
2:45 Neil Armstrong / Peder Anker
3:00 NASA / Michelle Addington
3:15 Jacques Cousteau / Janette Kim in conversation with General Dynamics, Neil
Armstrong, and NASA

3:45 Afternoon Break

PANEL 3 – MINIATURIZED EARTH
4:00 Buckminster Fuller / Mark Wigley
4:15 Victor Olgyay / Daniel Barber
4:30 Charles and Ray Eames / Andrés Jaque
4:45 Peter Van Dresser / Mitchell Joachim
5:00 Reyner Banham / Eva Franch i Gilabert in conversation with Buckminster Fuller, Victor
Olgyay, Charles and Ray Eames, and Peter van Dresser
5:30 Closing Remarks by Lydia Kallipoliti and Eva Franch i Gilabert

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