“Automation in Development through Collectives“ MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program Lecture Introduction and moderation: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Director, MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program (MS_ACT) SoAD at NYIT andra Manninger, Assistant Professor, MS ACT, SoAD at NYIT Speakers: “Site Surveying” Maider Llaguno-Munitxa, Assistant Professor UCLouvain “Designing Behaviors” Evangelos Pantazis, IBI Group / Topotheque Design Research “Natural Smartness: A new Era in Sustainability” Hanaa Dahy, Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Eng. Arch. Hanaa Dahy, BioMat Director at ITKE, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Stuttgart. “Architecture's Sputnik Moment” Neil Leach, Director, FIU DDes
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MS_ACT LECTURE SERIES S2022 LECTURE: February 14 2022 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. est via zoom Of Houses and Surfaces: Re-tracing, and re-thinking, R. Buckminster Fuller's trajectory from the Dymaxion to the Geo Michael Wen Sen Su, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Despite his lack of formal architectural training, R. Buckminster Fuller's contribution to architecture has been profound and unmatched. While his life's work is well studied, due, in no small part, to his lifelong drive to document every aspect and conserve every correspondence of his life, this lecture seeks to re-trace, and thereby to re-think, the trajectory of his work, which was marked at its inception by his idiosyncratic, impossible Dymaxion House, and at its terminus by the fanciful, all too possible Geodesic dome. In particular, this lecture seeks to reconsider Fuller as the innate outsider whose uncanny capacity for thinking outside the box led him to conceive of architecture not merely as the provision of shelter or the control of environment, but as the synthesis and manipulation of information.
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