MS ACT Lecture Shai Yeshayahu, Assistant Professor, Creative School, Toronto The MS ACT Lecture Series aims at discussing research framed by invited guest speakers. The MS ACT Program focuses on architecture expanding relationships between science, technology and culture through innovation in algorithms, simulations, ai, robotics, robotic fabrication and materials. The spring 2022 lecture series discusses alternative means to understand the dialectics between the ideal digital and the physical digital. Within an architecture of information, ai, robotics and materials are thought as actualization interfaces. This process understands information flows and their actualizations as architecture.
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Informed actualizations: From AI to Physical Computation The MS ACT Lecture Series aims at discussing research framed by invited guest speakers. The MS ACT Program focuses on architecture expanding relationships between science, technology and culture through innovation in algorithms, simulations, AI, robotics, robotic fabrication and materials. The spring 2022 lecture series discusses alternative means to understand the dialectics between the ideal digital and the physical digital. Within an architecture of information, ai, robotics and materials are thought as actualization interfaces. This process understands information flows and their actualizations as architecture.
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MS ACT Lecture S2022 Pablo Moyano Fernandez, Assistant Professor in Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts ∙ School of Architecture ∙ Washington University in St. Louis Sequential Casting Concrete System (SCCS) Historically, load-bearing masonry has served as the most fundamental and substantial structural system for secular and religious buildings until the 19th century. However, in contemporary architecture, the separation of structural frames from non-structural enclosures became the predominant trend. Today, most building envelopes rely on exterior cladding systems that are independent of the structure. With the current advances in material technology and digital fabrication, it is possible to challenge traditional concrete formwork practices by hybridizing vernacular casting techniques with innovative methods. As a result, the construction of concrete load-bearing walls with variable cross-sections and non-conventional geometries can be achieved. Sequential Casting Concrete System (SCCS) is a casting method that offers a wide range of complex geometries walls while incorporating the latest concrete technologies.Concrete’s reliance on formwork, due to its unique property of state-changing from fluid to a solid, brings mold making at the forefront of concrete’s possibilities.
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MS ACT INNOVATION KEYNOTE LECTURE Urban Environmental Interfaces Biayna Bogosian, Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology at Florida International University and Ph.D. Candidate in Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts “Urban Environmental Interfaces” will focus on how interactive, immersive, and locative media can facilitate new methods for researchers, designers, policymakers, and communities to engage with urban environmental information. Through several projects in various cities, this talk will explain the socio-spatial and political dynamics of urban environmental pollutant monitoring and representation using participatory custom hardware and software development. In this context, the speaker will elaborate on the importance of interdisciplinary research and teaching when exploring data-driven and citizen-centric approaches with the aim to improve the health of the built environment.
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MS ACT ARCHITECTURAL THEORY KEYNOTE LECTURE. April 4th 2022 2pm EDT. The Architectural Signifier.MARIO GANDELSONAS,FAIA,Professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University. Architecture seen as a complex “secondary” signifying system involving 2 and 3-dimensional representations is supported by language, it is related to its categories, but with its own organization and specific logic. It is accessible through the subject’s discourse, the architectural discourse, and supported by architectural drawn and built texts. I am going to present a brief description of the notion of signifier as it first appears in structural linguistics and then how it is borrowed and transformed in other fields, such as structural anthropology and psychoanalysis, to finally discuss the notion of the architectural signifier.
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March 14th 2022 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT via zoom ENTANGLED ECOLOGIES of the PUBLIC REALM Lecture by Marcella del Signore, Associate Professor; Director, MS. inArchitecture, Urban Design; Principal, X-Topia The exploration of the public domain is an important parameter to define how we live as collective and how we can rethink the fundamentals of living. The public realm is an expanded field where the deployment of collective ecologies is inherently connected to the socio-cultural production of space and forms of cohabitation of living systems. The talk addresses the intersection of technologies with the public/social/cultural realm through prototyping, material and fabricated systems, data-driven protocols, and mediated environments. Starting from Aério, an installation recently exhibited at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, a series of projects will be the vehicle to speculate on the current and future states of socio-technical apparatuses, interlaced ecosystems, and planetary entanglements.
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