MS_ACT Master of science in architecture, computational technologies MS_ACT LECTURE SERIES S2022 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 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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