[Recent Lecture] Maurice Cox, Detroit Planning Director
Mon Feb-01, 6pm @ EMPAC: PORTRAITS OF RESILIENCE: NEW ORLEANS / DETROIT. Maurice Cox, Planning Director City of Detroit_ Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, is planning director for the city of Detroit. Prior to moving to Michigan, he was director of Tulane City Center and […]
[Recent Lecture] Testa & Weiser
Mon. Nov. 16th @ EMPAC PETER TESTA & DEVYN WEISER: Superpositions Testa & Weiser is a Los Angeles based architecture and design studio founded by partners Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser in 2002. The studio is known for conceptual and technical breakthroughs that integrate advanced material processes at all scales. From pioneering software applications to […]
Patrick Schumacher : Parametric Order
Patrik Schumacher is partner at the internationally renowned Zaha Hadid Architects studio , and a founding director of the Design Research Lab (DRL) at the Architectural Association in London. ///
[Recent Lecture] Marie Ange-Brayer
Thu Oct 29, 6pm @ EMPAC: Marie Ange-Brayer: “Naturalizing Architecture” Archilab Marie-Ange Brayer is currently Chief Curator of Design and Industrial Perspective for the MNAM-CCI collection at the Centre Pompidou, the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. From 1996 to 2014 Brayer was director of the Frac Centre in Orleans, France and in […]
[Recent Lecture] Steven Ehrlich
Mon Oct 26 6pm @ EMPAC: Steven Ehrlich: “Evolving Multicultural Modernism”_ Steven Ehrlich, founding partner of Ehrlich Architects and member RPI class of ’68, learned early on the significance of how architecture responds to the culture and the environment – he is a self-proclaimed “architectural anthropologist.” Upon graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor […]
[Recent Lecture] Jenny Sabin
Wed Oct-14 6pm @ EMPAC: Jenny Sabin: “Matter Design Computation: Cells, Bits and Atoms”_ Jenny Sabin’s work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. […]
Fall 2016 Lecture Series
LECTURE SERIES (FALL 2016). Admission is FREE. All lectures unless otherwise noted start 6:00pm at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Contemporary Design Conference is from 2-7:00pm on Tuesday, November 8th.
[Recent Lecture] Achim Menges
Mon April 27th, 6:00 pm @ EMPAC Concert Hall ACHIM MENGES: “Computational Material Culture” ACHIM MENGES is a a registered architect in Frankfurt, Germany and a professor at the University of Stuttgart, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design since 2008. Additionally, Menges is a Visiting Professor in Architecture at […]
[Recent Lecture] Aires Mateus
DATE CHANGE TO Mon Apr 20th, 6:00 pm @ EMPAC MANUEL AIRES MATEUS: “Recent Projects” MANUEL AIRES MATEUS is a Portuguese architect and founding co-principal at Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963, Aires Mateus earned his degree in architecture from F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. He has collaborated with architect Gonçalo Byrne, and since […]
[Recent Event] “Integrated Ideation” Symposium
Mon. April 6th, 4:30 pm @ EMPAC Theater BEDFORD CHAIR SYMPOSIUM: “INTEGRATED IDEATION: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF EXTRAORDINARY STRUCTURES” Featuring: CRAIG SCHWITTER, BuroHappold BRUCE DANZIGER, Arup MICHAEL STEIN, Schlaich Bergermann & Pnr. WILL LAUFS, Laufsed PLLC Craig Schwitter of Burohappold is a leader in the engineering design of complex buildings and large scale developments that […]