Mon Mar-02, 2:00-3:30pm @ Greene Gallery:

DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS, and CHARLIE O’GEEN.

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The 2020 Building Science Lecture Series exploring building sciences in the 21st Century continues this Monday, March 2nd at 2:00 in the Greene Gallery with two guest presentations. The first by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis from Davidson Rafailidis; followed by architect Charlie O’Geen. These lectures will be open to the whole school.

Davidson Rafailidis is an award winning firm based in Buffalo, New York that has redefined today’s understanding of programmatic flexibility, passive design, and mechanical innovation in their architecture. Davidson grew up in rural Ontario. She earned a degree in fine arts from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, then studied architecture at Halifax’s Dalhousie University and London’s Architectural Association. Rafailidis, a native of Bavaria, holds degrees from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and the Architectural Association (DAAD fellow). Their design work has been published and exhibited internationally, and has received awards such as Emerging Voices Award 2018 by the Architectural League of New York, Azure’s AZ Award of Design Excellence 2018, Best of Canada Design Award (2015, 2016 and 2018), Blueprint magazine award 2016 and Architizer A+ award 2016, among others. Davidson and Rafailidis have been architecture faculty at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the State University of New York at Buffalo, visiting faculty at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto, and International Guest professors at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. Rafailidis is currently Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, SUNY Buffalo and Davidson is Assistant Professor at Ryerson School of Interior Design in Toronto, Canada.

Charlie O’Geen is an architect and educator known for his on full-scale architectural and building experiments. His investigations focus in the exploitation of existing site conditions for use as building systems, in opposition to conventional building practices which are materially consuming. His practice moves off paper and into the full-scale realities of site and material, and looks to expose and explore the opportunities of existing material energy. Rather than starting with the formal visual properties of design, the process weighs the potential of conditions already present at the building site, creating experiments that develop fully mature material systems that grow from untapped resources in sites and materials. O’Geen received a Bachelors and Masters degrees of architecture from SUNY Buffalo and a second Masters in Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He resided in Detroit for a long period where was a College Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Tech University. In 2013 he was awarded the Kresge Artist Fellowship. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at The University of New Mexico.

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