[Postponed] Lecture:
Ming Fung
New Fall’14 Date Soon. MING FUNG: “RECENT WORK”. sponsored by ARCHITECTURE + HsinMing Fung, AIA, is Principal and Director of Design for the internationally renowned architecture firm Hodgetts + Fung (H+F). With a lifelong commitment to the arts and education, she brings a sensibility distilled from her background as an émigré to a design practice energized […]
Recent Lecture: Smiljan Radic (Chile)
Thu 3/20, 6pm @ EMPAC SMILJAN RADIC: “SURROUNDINGS” Smiljan Radic was born in Santiago de Chile in 1965. He studied at the Catholic University of Chile’s School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1989. Later, he studied at the Istituttto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy, travelled for three years on and off, and finally […]
Andrew Saunders: Robotic Lattice Smock
SHOW: 3/17-21, Greene 201. LECTURE: Wed 3/19, 6pm, Greene Gallery Andrew Saunders: “Robotic Lattice Smock” (in collaboration with Robofold) [Browns Presentation] LECTURE: Wed 19, 6pm @ Greene Gallery Andrew Saunders: Assistant Professor, SoA-RPI Gregory Epps: Founder Robofold (London) In “Style: Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts”, Gottfried Semper the nineteenth-century German architect and historian demonstrates that […]
Recent Lecture: Hernan Diaz Alonso
Mon 17, 6pm @ EMPAC. “FORM & GLOOM.” Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of Xefirotarch, a Los Angeles-based design practice. Considered one of the most influential voices of his generation, Diaz Alonso assumed the new role of Graduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc, after having coordinate the school’s graduate thesis process for the past several years. […]
Ning Xiang: Acoustic in Coupled Spaces
Tue. March 4, 6pm @ Greene Gallery. Ning Xiang: “Acoustic in Coupled Spaces”. [Browns Fellow Presentation] Professor Ning Xiang, Acoustic Program’s Director will present highlights of his 2012 Browns Fellowship research traveling. Recent applications of coupled-volume systems in concert halls and stage-house adaptations in opera houses and theaters have prompted increasing interest in Architectural Acoustics. […]
RECENT LECTURE: CATHERINE INGRAHAM
Wed Feb 26, 6PM @ EMPAC “Plasticity: Architecture and New Natures”. Catherine Ingraham is Professor of Architecture in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she formerly served as Chair of Architecture from 1999-2005. Ingraham’s contributions to architectural culture are perhaps best summarized as an expansion beyond traditional disciplinary domains […]
Recent Lecture: Roger Duffy
Mon Jan 27, 6pm @ EMPAC “S.O.M. An Evolving Legacy.” Roger Duffy is an American architect, known “for rigorous and unconventional approach to design” [Metropolis magazine]. He currently works as a partner at the renown firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He has been a design partner in the New York office since 1995, and is a member of the American Institute of […]
Yugoslavia as Pangaea
Wed Jan 29, 6 pm @ Greene Gallery, ALEX DORN (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: Yugoslavia as Pangaea. First Robert S. Brown Traveling Fellowship lecture of the semester – this coming Wednesday, January 29 at 6 PM, Greene Gallery. Alumni Alex Dorn’s lecture YUGOSLAVIA AS PANGAEA is presented as “a study of boundaries: shifts and […]
Recent Lecture: Philip Yuan
Thu Nov 21, 6pm @ EMPAC “Autonomous Tectonics”. Dr Philip F. Yuan is Associate Professor at the Architecture and Planning Institute of Tongji University, Shanghai, Director of Archi-Union Architects, and a member of the Shanghai Urban & Planning Consultant Community. He has won the following important domestic and international design awards: 2nd prize for Excellent […]
Recent Lecture: coop himmelb(l)au > WOLF PRIX
Mon Nov 4th, 6pm @ EMPAC Don’t worry. In two days tomorrow will be yesterday. Coop Himmelblau, also rendered Coop Himmelb(l)au, avant-garde architecture firm that rose to prominence in the 1980s and ’90s. The two central members were Wolf D. Prix (b. December 13, 1942, Vienna, Austria) and Helmut Swiczinsky (b. January 13, 1944, Poznań, Poland). Coop Himmelblau was founded in 1968 by Prix, […]