Peter Eisenman (Lecture Spring 2013)
Professor Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Series. A Defense of Architecture. As a world-renown architect, Peter Eisenmans’ professional work is often reflective upon his own writings on the faculty. Both the built and theoretical realm of Eisenman’s works concentrate on studying the layers of physical and cultural archaeologies at each site. Peter Eisenman is an […]
Alisa Andrasek: Open Synthesis
Alisa Andrasek is a researcher, experimental practitioner, and educator of computational architecture and design. She is the founder of Biothing, a research laboratory that concentrates on computational potentials in design.
Neri Oxman: Neri Oxman, MIT Media Lab (Spring 2013 Lecture)
Founder of MIT’s Media Lab, Neri Oxman, has dedicated her profession as a designer and architect towards investigating how our built world can be influenced by fabrication technologies and digital design techniques.
Recent Lecture: Michael Hansmeyer
Thu Sep 12, 6pm @ Empac. “Digital Grotesque” Based in the CAAD group at ETH’s architecture department in Zurich, Michael Hansmeyer is dedicated in developing algorithmic architecture and complex structures by using generative art mentalities and other computational softwares. ” In the Digital Grotesque project, we use these algorithms to create a form that appears […]
Spring 2014 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2014). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Monday, January. 27 ROGER DUFFY SOM: An Evolving Legacy Wednesday, February 26 CATHERINE INGRAHAM Plasticity: Architecture and […]
FALL 2013 LECTURE SERIES
Lecture Series (Fall 2013). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180.
Spring 2013 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2013). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. ///
Fall 2011 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Fall 2011) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. All lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center, 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule JOEL SANDERS Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture Wed Sept 7th – Concert Hall HEATHER ROBERGE Sheet Logics Wed Sept 21st […]
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2012) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule MATIAS DEL CAMPO Sublime Bodies Wed, October 17, 6pm – 8pm Theater @ EMPAC DAVID REED […]
Oksiuta @ EMPAC
Faculty Lecture: A Biological Future? In his research, Rensselaer Architecture professor Zbigniew Oksiuta develops living biological habitats by combining art, architecture, engineering, and the biological sciences. His work looks beyond historical, social, urbanistic, and aesthetic factors to reduce the notion of space to its absolute minimum: the physical and chemical parameters that enable physiological existence. […]