Spring 2007

Roger Madelin
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow
"Building a New Piece of City"
Thursday, January 11
 
Zaha Hadid
Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor
"Current Work"
Friday, January 12
 
Ali Rahim
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor
"Catalytic Formations"
Thursday, January 18
 
Symposium
"SEDUCTION: Forms, Sensations, and the Production of Architectural Desire"
Friday–Saturday, January 19–20, Hastings Hall (basement floor)
 
A decade of explosive development in communication and information retrieval technologies, from Bluetooth to GPS and Blackberries to iPods, has produced a global datascape where the ability to access information, anywhere, and at anytime, is nearly ubiquitous. The alliance of this data-saturated scenario with similar advances in computational, material, and fabrication technologies requires the field of architecture to question its historic presumption as an embodiment of meaningful content––regardless of its specific posturing as icon, sign, or index. Through presentations given by a select group of architects, critics, theorists, and innovators, this symposium will explore how architecture is shedding its burden of communication in favor of new formal ambitions, including the customization of moods, the influences of sensation, and the emergence of a new species of irrefutably contemporary aesthetics.
 
Friday, January 19, 3:30 PM
Gregory Crewdson, Jeffrey Kipnis, Herbert Muschamp, Ben Pell, Peggy Phelan
Friday, January 19, 6:30 PM, Keynote Address
Sylvia Lavin
Saturday, January 20, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Peter Eisenman, David Erdman, Mark Foster Gage, Sanford Kwinter, Chrissie Iles, Mark Linder, Greg Lynn, Edward Mitchell, Kivi Sotamaa, Henry Urbach, Roemer van Toorn
 
Aine Brazil
Gordon H. Smith Lecture
"Pragmatic Creativity: The Structural Challenge"
Monday, January 29
 
Peter Eisenman & Raphael Moneo
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor
"Architecture Today: A Conversation"
Thursday, February 1
 
William McDonough
"Cradle to Cradle: A World of Good Design"
plus a screening of "China: from Red to Green?"
Monday, February 12
 
Gwendolyn Wright
"Permeable Borders: Modern Architecture in America"
Thursday, February 15
 
Kengo Kuma
"Anti-Object"
Monday, February 19
 
Deborah Berke
"This Time and That Place"
Thursday, February 22
 
Charles Rose
"Liberation and Deliberation: Recent Work by Charles Rose Architects"
Monday, February 26
 
Susan Fainstein
Eero Saarinen Lecture
"The Just City"
Monday, March 26
 
 
Symposium
"The Market of Effects"
Friday–Saturday, March 30–31, Hastings Hall (basement floor)
 
This symposium serves as a critical forum that explores the history, articulation, and future of the “Experience Economy” in relation to architecture and urban design. The “Experience Economy”, as defined by economist Joseph Pine, is characterized by a progression away from subsistence economies to those favoring the commoditization of experiences appealing to consumers’ emotions and feelings. Through the thematizing of user needs and the theatrical presentation of memory, image, and sensorial satisfaction as currency, architecture has responded to market forces with projects that merge technology, narrative, and dynamic effects in the built environment.
 
Friday 30 March 2007, 6:30 p.m.
 
Introduction and welcome:
Dean Robert A.M. Stern
 
Keynote Speaker - 2007 Roth-Symonds Lecture
Mark Gottdiener (SUNY Buffalo):
"Foreground/Background: Architecture as Sign and the Culture of Theming"
 
Saturday 31 March 2007, 9:45 a.m.
 
Symposium Welcome:
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale)
 
Morning Session
 
Spaces of Consumption
Bernard Zernheld (Yale)
"Advertising as Architecture's Nemesis and Model in the Rue Réaumur"
Sara Stevens (Princeton)
"Learning from Billboards"
Winnie Wong (MIT)
"The Trade Dress Tertium Quid and the Economy of Ambient Exchange"
Response:
Ed Mitchell (Yale)
 
Afternoon Session, 1:30 p.m.
 
Spaces of Immersion
Lydia Kallipoliti (Princeton)
"Electronic Urbanism 1952-1977; Takis Zenetos' aeroform colonizations and brain-power space-making"
Wendy Fok (Princeton)
"Cultural Sounds: Mapping Communication"
Erica Robles (Stanford)
"Media, Landscape and Architecture at the
Crystal Cathedral"
 
Roundtable Discussion, 3:00 p.m.
Mark Gottdiener
Edward Mitchell
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Emmanuel Petit
 
 
Belinda Tato & José Luis Vallejo
"Recycling the non-city: The Work of [ecosistema urbano]"
Monday, April 2
 
Mack Scogin
"The Rinoceros Next Door"
Thursday, April 5
 
Ljiljana Blagojevic
"New Belgrade: The Capital of No-City's-Land"
Monday, April 9
 
Ben van Berkel
Paul Rudolph Lecture
"Everything is curved"
Thursday, April 12
 
Adriaan Geuze
Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecture
"Lost Paradise"
Monday, April 23