Föreläsning Draw point talk 12. November kl 18 & Seminar 19. November

Föreläsning 12. November: Gilles Retsin
Var: SAL 108, KTH-A

Seminar 19. November
Var: SAL 324, KTH-A

till seminarium:
Formulera temat och vilken/vilka byggnader/arkitekter du tänker att applicera ditt tema: Grid-Shelter-Concept
Ta gärna med representativ bild på byggnaden på USB stick
Tänk även efter vilken literatur/vilken av texterna du tänkte använda

(14) Gilles Retsin: Very Strange Mereology: "Architecture as a continuously evolving organic body, growing and adapting under external forces - the prevailing paradigm for computation in the past two decades - is under pressure. This lecture will explore how that paradigm has undermined architecture’s autonomy, and has fundamentally always been in trouble with tectonics. Rather then borrowing models from nature; or moving into neo-phenomenology; I will argue for an architectural ontology based on sharpening the tension between architecture and its parts. Increased computational capabilities are able to push the modernist understanding of architecture as an assemblage of prefabricated, discrete elements into an unexpected new domain of previously unachievable detail, materiality, structure and aesthetics.

Gilles Retsin is the founder of Gilles Retsin Architecture, a young award-winning London based architecture and design practice, interested in the impact of computation and new fabrication methods on the core principles of architecture. Alongside his practice, Gilles directs a research cluster at UCL/ the Bartlett school of Architecture investigating robotic manufacturing and large-scale 3D printing, and is senior lecturer at UEL.

http://retsin.org/

Draw, point, talk asks emerging architects and scholars to present their ongoing work in a public lecture and to articulate a position that charges the following response and discussion. Putting media and thought into productive dialogue, the series challenges a prevailing climate where design is presented without disciplinary argument or where criticism is presented without proposition. Each session addresses a current debate in architecture by delving deep into the particularities of an architectural practice. Hosted four times per year, this curated series of talks invites the public to an ongoing discussion.

http://cargocollective.com/drawpointtalk

Arranged and curated by
The Stockholm Association of Architects in collaboration with KTH School of Architecture
through Daniel Norell and Frida Rosenberg"