Haresh Lalvani [Recent Lecture]
Tue Apr-02 6PM @ EMPAC:
“Shaping, Self-Shaping, Meta-Shaping” / HARESH LALVANI.
Dr. Haresh Lalvani is a tenured professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute where he has influenced generations of designers, artists and architects. Known worldwide for his morphological, structural, and design innovations, Lalvani holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and has worked at NASA-Langley Research Center on space applications and at Computer Graphics Laboratory, NYIT, on computer-animations.
He serves on the editorial board of Space Structures, (France), and is the author of two books, Transpolyhedra and Structures on Hyper-Structures. An award recipient from NYSTAR, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Institute for Architectural Education, Lalvani received the Pioneers’ Award from the Space Structures Research Center, University of Surrey, U.K. in 2002. He was a speaker at TED2004, Monterey, California and will speak at TEDx Brooklyn 2010. From his playful and challenging Metapuzzles to his discovery of Hyper-Geodesic Structures for architecture, Lalvani continues to combine his love of art and mathematics in his search for the architectural genome and his efforts to generate new languages of art and design.
Lalvani has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout North America and Europe including Morphogenomics (2004) at the Municipal Arts Society, New York; Aión: An Eventual Architecture (2003), at the first Prague Biennale; and was artist-in-residence (1992-2002) at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. His group exhibitions have included IAAC Erasing Borders (2009), Aicon, New York and the Queens Museum of Art, New York; Siggraph (2008), Los Angeles; and BreakThroughs (2007), at the Liberty Science Center, New Jersey. His AlgoRhythm columns are in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and were exhibited following their acquisition in 2004 and at the reopening of the Museum the same year.