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Representation 2 – Week 07 – Tutorial Files:

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Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Parametrics

Location- HHS 111

Date + Time- 2012.02.25, 2-6pm

Conductor-  Sebastian Misiurek + Scott Sorenson

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with the latest service release of Rhino 4.0 and download the latest Grasshopper build prior to the workshop. The latest build can be found at www.grasshopper3d.com.

Description- This workshop will serve both as an introduction and intermediate exposure to Grasshopper - a generative modeling plug-in for Rhino. It will cover the development, conceptual basis, and open up the contemporary practices of the software. This workshop will be geared toward people who have little to no experience with the software and/or are interested in the multipronged application of the software from a number of various approaches.

Downloads- DF_Parametrics_Sp12_0225_Files – (please download them before the start of the workshop).

Please note that CRAIG DYKERS LECTURE is scheduled for this evening, Thursday, February 23rd at 6pm in the Higgins Hall Auditorium.

A founder of Snohetta Architects, one of the fastest growing firms in the world, Craig Dykers will lecture on his and the firm’s latest projects. This lecture is sponsored in part by the Arnold Syrop (B. Arch ‘61) and Joanne Syrop Lecture Series Endowed by the Selz Foundation.

Via wikipedia

Craig Edward Dykers is an architect. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1961 and has lived in Europe and North America. Dykers received a Bachelor degree in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin after studies in medicine and art.

Dykers has worked in Texas and California and later co-founded the architecture, landscape and interior design company of Snøhetta arkitektur landskap AS in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. He worked with the design of several projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum at theWorld Trade Center site in NYC. Other projects included the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.^[1]

Active professionally and academically, Craig has been a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association (NAL), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England. He has been the Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and has been a Distinguished Professor at City College in New York City. He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. In addition Dykers has been commissioned to complete installation art projects in public spaces, many of which focused on the notion of context, nature and human nature.

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Site Strategies 01 – Topography Modeling and Fabrication

Location- HHS 111

Date + Time- 2012.02.16, 6:30-8:30pm

Conductor-  Sebastian Misiurek

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR8).

Description- This workshop will serve as an intermediate lesson in developing surfaces in Rhino 4 with a focus on the site model and topography.  Participants will be exposed to differing approaches to generating surfaces with a focus on the particulars of continuity and curvature.  Topics covered will include lofting, sweeping, patching, creasing, and blending with in-depth tutorials on digital topography creation/manipulation and generating layouts for a laser cut site model.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of generating and managing surfaces and polysurfaces in Rhino and preparing them for digital fabrication.

Generating Site Topography

-Importing/Tracing a site drawing

-Extracting Loft Curves to generate Surface

-Generate the surface, resolving issues/inconsistencies

-Adding Detail: Roads, Existing Buildings, Landscape Elements

-Workshop Tutorial #1: Creating the digital site model

Generating Content from a Digital Site Model

-Generating a site drawing, the contour command

-Creating a laser file for a site model.

-Workshop Tutorial #2: Creating Site drawings and laser files from a digital site model

-Intersecting a surface with a X and Y grid of struts

-Trimming out the intersections

-Flattening the newly generated lines to create lasercut templates

-Workshop Tutorial #3: Generate a waffle / egg crate model of the site

Downloads:

Workshop files – DF_SiteStrategies01_Sp12_Arch202

URSULA Von RYDINGSVARD LECTURE

FEBRUARY 13, 2012 6PM

HIGGINS HALL AUDITORIUM

On Monday night, February 13, 2012 at 6PM in the Higgins Hall Auditorium, the School of Architecture will host world- renowned sculptor Ursula Von Rydingsvard. Working almost exclusively in wood for over three decades, Ms. Von Rydingsvard has established a body of work that crosses the disciplines of art, architecture, and design. Her work is exhibitied in museums and galleries around the world, and her sculptures have been incorporated into important public spaces, builidings, and landscapes in collaboration with some of the world’s most important designers. This lecture has special significance for artists, architects, and designers interested in the work of an important artist breaking the established boundaries and disciplines of art and architecture.

Ursula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Germany (1942 -) is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of images.

Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from the cedar beams which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work’s textured, faceted surfaces. She deliberately uses cedar boards milled into 4″ by 4″ widths with varied lengths which create a neutrality or “blank canvas” which enables her to dip into many different possibilities often within the arena of the psychological and emotional. As von Rydingsvard explains this approach: “If I were to say how it is that I break the convention of sculpture (and I’m not sure that’s what I do or even if that’s what I want to do), it would be by climbing into the work in a way that’s highly personal, that I can claim as being mine. The more mine it is, the more I’m able to break the convention.”[1] Her signature abstract shapes refer to things in the real world, each revealing the mark of the human hand while also summoning natural forms and forces. These forms typically include simple vessels and bowls; many suggest tools or other artifacts such as shovels, spoons and fences, or allude to primitive dwellings, geological formations, the landscape, or the body.

Patrik Schumacher, architect and director of Zaha Hadid Architects in London, will be giving a lecture this Thursday, November 17th at 6pm in the Higgins Hall Auditorium with Ms. Hadid in attendance. Besides the internationally acclaimed work he has done assisting with Ms. Hadid’s work, his individual projects have snapped up awards around the world as well. Closing out the School of Architecture’s lecture series for the semester and the year, Mr. Schumacher is not to be missed.

Profile:

Patrik has been with our practice since 1988. He is company director and our Senior Designer, involved alongside Zaha Hadid herself in all projects we undertake. He maintains an active role in the development throughout the design phases.

Education:

Patrik studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the SOuthbank University in London. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree Dipl Ing from Stuttgart University in 1990. He also studied philosophy at Bonn and London Universities. In 1999, he received his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt.

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• architect’snewspaper _ the parametricist manifesto
• zahahadidarchitects _ bio
• patrickschumacher

Latin Pratt’s ‘Breaking Borders’ semester-long event wraps up this Monday, November 14th at 6pm with a lecture by Carlos JIMENEZ, an architect with his own firm, The Carlos Jimenez Studio, and is a professor at Rice University. Mr. Jimenez’s work includes the Rice University Data Center, the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, several residences, and a variety of upcoming projects.

Born in San Jose, Costa Rica (1959). Moved to United States in 1974. B-Arch (1981) from the University of Houston College of Architecture, receiving awards for best thesis and best portfolio. Establishes Carlos Jimenez Studio in Houston in 1983. Visiting professor at a number of Universities  in the United States and abroad such as Southern California Institute of Architecture, University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, Texas A&M University, Williams College, University of Navarra, Rice University, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Tulane University, University of Texas at Austin and Arlington, Tec de Monterrey at Queretaro, Veritas University and the University of Oregon, among others. Lecturer, Juror and Visiting Critic at academic and cultural institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe the Middle East and Japan. Contributes regularly to specialized journals. Tenured Professor at Rice University School of Architecture (2000). Jury member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2001-2011).

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Carlos Jimenez, professor of architecture at Rice University and an internationally known architect, has combined a distinctive style of teaching and research into an award-winning blend. He is the recipient of the 2006 Charles W. Duncan Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty, which recognizes accomplishment in scholarship and teaching.

Jimenez said architecture research doesn’t take place in a controlled environment or a sterile lab; it converges and combines with academics until it’s difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.

“What’s different about architecture and a science like biochemistry is that the academic and research sides are intertwined into the built work,” he said. “Every architecture project by nature requires a great deal of research focused toward an optimum solution. Whether in my studio or in one of my studios at Rice, we conduct singularly focused research, and the building is evidence of that research. The level and quality of research is another measure of a project’s success or shortcomings.”

But research is only part of the reason Jimenez received the award.

“His dedication to teaching and to students is legendary,” said Lars Lerup, dean of architecture and the William

Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture. “Carlos is one of the most revered studio teachers in the school. His reputation as considerate and respectful and his interest in our community go far beyond the call of duty and make him an outstanding colleague.”

For Jimenez, instruction on the subject of architecture is filled with contradictions. “I try to teach my students to be highly agile and positive in their pursuit of architecture, free and respectful of the discipline’s vast built legacy, intrepid and cautious, citizens of their precise locality and of the world, ” he said.

Jimenez, who was born in Costa Rica, came to the U.S. in the 1970s and graduated from the University of Houston in 1981. After a brief partnership, he started his own studio in 1982. He became a visiting professor at Rice in 1987, and in 1996 he started teaching full time at the university. By that time, he was well-known with a substantial portfolio of work and many publications.

“Carlos Jimenez’s story is an American story, showing how vital immigrants are to our culture,” Lerup said. “We are truly privileged to have him among us.”

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Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Latin Pratt will be hosting host a symposium titled “New Latin American Architecture: A Critical Panorama” on Monday, November 7, 2011, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Higgins Hall Auditorium at 61 Saint James Place. The symposium will be free and open to the public and will focus on the development of architecture in Latin America during the last decade and the future of architecture in Latin America.

The symposium will feature a panel discussion moderated by Ivan Rumenov Shumkov, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute and principal of Ivan Shumkov Architects; with panelists Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art and professor of architectural history at Columbia University; Alfredo Brillembourg, co-founder of Urban-Think Tank and chair of architecture and design at Zurich Institute of Technology; Ana Maria Duran Calisto, architect, researcher, and co-principal of Estudio A0; Kenneth Frampton, author, architect, and Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University; and Giancarlo Mazzanti Sierra, architect and a faculty member at Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia.

Please remember to bring your Pratt I.D. to gain entrance into the auditorium.

This Thursday November 3^rd at 6pm Pratt School of Architecture will present the Symposium ROME MATTERS in Higgins Hall Auditorium. A conversation with Pippo Ciorra, of Rome’s MAXXI Museum, Alicia Imperiale, of Temple University, Frederick Biehle, Pratt Professor and Rome Program Director, and Mark Ratansky, Pratt Professor. Moderating the symposium will be Jason Vigneri-Beane, director of the GAUD Rome Program.