Mark Jensen [Recent Lecture]
Mon Feb-25 6pm @ EMPAC: “Attention!” / Mark Jensen_ Mark Jensen, FAIA, is the founder of Jensen Architects, an award-winning design practice based in San Francisco with a focus on the intersection between art, architecture, and science, designing buildings that engage with the local culture. The firm is highly influenced by his early years in […]
2012 Smart Geometry
March 19-24, 2012 @ EMPAC. Smart Geometry 2012: MATERIAL INTENSITIES. Host Directors: Demetrios Comodromos + Jefferson Ellinger. Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the […]
2012 Smart Geometry
MARCH 12-24, 2012. The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and […]