Friday, April 2, 2010 [2:00pm-6:00pm]
Saturday, April 3, 2010 [1:00pm-6:00pm]
Question? Contact: lizmartinusa@gmail.com
HIGH OCTANE, What's Next?
Featuring practices that explore research, innovation and tectonics, while recognizing the need to:
> Rethink perceptions and priorities;
> Renew ideas and commitment;
> Reboot in order to reshape the future.
Friday, April 2, 2010
SPSU, Student Center Theater
[2:00pm-6:00pm ]
>2:00-2:15 Welcome from Dean Wilson Barnes, PhD
>2:15-3:00 LUMENHAUS: A RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE
Andrew P. McCoy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Myers-Lawson School of Construction
Virginia Tech [Blacksburg, VA]
>3:00-3:45 RECONSIDERING THE BOX: On the Genius of Distributed Networks
John Connell, AIA
Founder, Yestermorrow Design/Build [Warren, VT]
>3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK
>4:15-5:00 CAN ARCHITECTURE TRANSFORM SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS?
Michael Willis, FAIA, NOMA
President, MWA Architects [San Francisco, CA]
>5:00-6:00 Panel Discussion: John Connell, Andrew McCoy, Michael Willis
Moderator: William Carpenter, FAIA, PhD
Saturday, April 3, 2010
SPSU, Student Center Theater
[1:00pm-6:00pm ]
>1:00-1:15 Welcome from Ameen Farooq, PhD, Chair
>1:15-2:15 RESTRICTED PLAY: RECENT WORK OF LTL
Marc Tsurumaki, AIA LEED
Partner, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis [New York, NY]
>2:15-3:15 GREEN-PIX: CHINA’S NEXT GREAT WALL
Simone Giostra, AIA
Partner, SGA-Architects [Brooklyn, NY]
>3:15-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
>3:45-4:45 DISCRETIZED CURVES AND TECTONIC LANGUAGE
Preston Scott Cohen
Professor and Chair, Harvard GSD
Principal, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. [Cambridge, MA]
>4:45- 5:30 Closing Panel: Preston Scott Cohen, Simone Giostra, Michael Willis, Marc Tsurumaki, Moderator: Liz Martin
> Closing reception immediately following symposium in The Architecture Gallery
LOCATION / DIRECTIONS:
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060
Talks will be held at the Student Center Theater.
Directions from Atlanta from I-75N, exit 263 (Southern Poly/Marietta); from exit turn left onto Marietta Parkway, continue through three traffic lights and make a left into campus.
Organized by the SPSU Department of Architecture
Liz Martin, Chair of Lectures, Exhibitions & Special Programs Committee
All events are free and open to the public. Free campus parking available.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Preston Scott Cohen is the Chair of the Department of Architecture and Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Previously, he was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto (2004) and the Perloff Professor at UCLA (2002).
The architecture of Preston Scott Cohen is recognized for its innovative geometry and for its new approach to integrating buildings with their environments. Scott has produced numerous critically acclaimed projects for important buildings including the Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China; the Robbins Elementary School, Trenton, NJ; Performing Arts Center for Nanjing University’s Xianlin Campus, Jiang Su, and the Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art [under construction].
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Marc Tsurumaki is a partner at Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, a research-driven design practice renowned for using materials in unexpected ways. Marc is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and was the Fall 2006 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. He received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1987 and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture in 1991. Marc has been a Trustee of the Van Alen Institute since 2002.
The New York- based firm has completed academic, institutional, residential and hospitality projects throughout the United States, including the College of Wooster’s Bornhuetter Hall in Ohio, and Fluff, Tides and Xing restaurants in New York City. Recently, LTL received the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Architecture and the 2007 James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design. The firm’s work is part of several museum collections and has been exhibited widely at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Simone Giostra is the founder of SGPA, a New York-based office dedicated to the investigation of architecture and new media. Simone is member of the AIA and has been practicing in the profession since 1994, including as project architect for Alvaro Siza, Raphael Vinoly, Raimund Abraham, Steven Holl and Richard Meier. Currently, the firm is responsible for the design and implementation of some of the most innovative projects under development in China, including the Jinbao Entertainment Center in Beijing and the Jingya Grand Hotel in Wheihai.
Simone Giostra is also involved in the academic community, combining professional practice with a commitment to investigation and research. Currently, he is Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and at PRATT Institute in New York. He has lectured extensively in Europe and the US, most recently at the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Milan and at the “SOM Lecture Series” in New York and his work has been published in several books and journals including: The New York Time, The Washington Post, CNN, Architectural Record, A+U, Detail Magazine and Metropolis.
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John Connell founded the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in 1980 and the Yestermorrow Building Group Inc. (later to become 2morrow Studio in 1982.) John is an experienced team builder, group facilitator and educational program designer. The Yestermorrow School teaches people how to plan, design, build or renovate their own homes. It is staffed by over 40 architects, builders and artisans from all over the United States who believe that the way to improve the built and natural environments is to re-involve people in vernacular architecture.
John is currently designing green homes that tell "stories", design/building treehouses for handicapped children, and animating short films. 2morrow Studio puts into actual practice the design/build philosophy taught at the Yestermorrow School. A small design/build firm in Vermont, 2morrow Studio works with residential and small commercial clientele interested in integrated energy-efficient architecture using the latest green and sustainable methodologies.
Besides architectural design, John taught at Yale's school of architecture for five years after which he authored the book Homing Instinct: Using Your Lifestyle to Design & Build Your Own Home, McGraw Hill, 2000. He continues share his hands-on, global approach to creating environmentally sensitive buildings, housing, politics, culture and the life of the planet.
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Michael Willis, FAIA founded Michael Willis Architects in 1988. Michael strives to provide a higher quality of life by designing functional, technically accomplished and spiritually enriching buildings and environments. His firm was founded on the belief that institutional and non-profit clients are entitled to the highest quality of design. By advocating public participation in the design process and in the built form, Michael and his firm has been successful at creating architecture that can be a unifying social force, creating environments that are human and welcoming. In the last twenty-one years the firm has gained a national reputation for integrating urban design and community participation in civic, affordable housing, and neighborhood revitalization projects in Northern California, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, and Missouri.
Michael is a registered architect, chair of the AIA Professional Interest Area (PIA) national committee, past president of AIA San Francisco, and past chair of the Northern California section of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). His firm has been recognized by the AIA SF for Excellence in Architecture and recently received the Green Building of America Award for the design of the 125 Mason Street Apartments providing housing for eighty-one families. The lively main façade represents the animated character of the non-profit co-sponsor through dancing bay windows, special finishes of deep orange resin panels and porcelain tile base and the public art, which is created as a moving expression of words from a poem written by the church community.
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Andrew P. McCoy, PhD is an assistant professor of Building Construction and adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, teaching Principles of Construction and Integrated Capstone Studios, which give students practical experience working on estimating and project management of real construction projects. He received Virginia Tech’s XCaliber award for advancing technology in the classroom. Andrew’s main area of research involves diffusion and commercialization of innovative projects in the construction industry.
Andrew has collaborated on a number of research projects focusing on ‘green’ construction practices. His most recent project, the Department of Energy “Solar Decathlon” competition, is one in which university teams compete to design, build, manage and operate an aesthetically pleasing, energy-efficient solar-powered house.
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Department of Architecture,
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, Georgia 30060-2896
HIGH OCTANE, What's Next?
all events are free and open to the public
