Michael Hansmeyer: Out of Order
Wednesday, Oct 7, 201511:59 AMEDT
| SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CARelated
Wed, Oct 7, 7pm W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Live at sma.sciarc.edu/live Architecture must surprise, excite, and irritate. As both an intellectual and a phenomenological endeavor, it should address not only the mind, but all the senses — viscerally. It must be judged by the experiences it generates. The confluence of advances in both computation and fabrication frees architecture from the paradigms of rationalization and standardization. In taking computation to the extreme, one can synthesize the fantastical. One can create forms that are not only undrawable, but would otherwise be unimaginable. A rich an engaging architecture can emerge — an architecture situated between the natural and the artificial, between chaos and order, between the expected and surprise. An architecture that defies classification and reductionism by challenging our prevailing systems of order. Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer known for exploring the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. His recent projects include the Sixth Order installation of columns at the Gwangju Design Biennale, the design and fabrication of full-scale 3D printed grotto for the 2013 Archilab exhibition, and the Platonic Solids series. Hansmeyer is currently a visiting professor at Southeast University in Nanjing. He was previously a lecturer in the CAAD group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Prior to this, he worked at Herzog & de Meuron Architects and in the consulting and financial industries at McKinsey & Company and J.P. Morgan. http://sciarc.edu/lectures.php?id=2418
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