Presentation and Discussion with Ben van Berkel and Sylvia Lavin
Friday, Feb 22, 20134:30 AMEDT
| 6032 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA
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Ben van Berkel and Sylvia Lavin will be holding a presentation and discussion titled "Motion Matters" at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum as part of the inCollaboration event series with Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design on Thursday, February 21st, 2013. The presentation and discussion will focus on UNStudio's fascination with motion in architecture in the broadest sense: physical motion, imaginative motion, and conceptual motion. "When we talk of ‘motion’ within architecture", van Berkel suggests, "we not only refer to buildings and their potential effects, but also to shifts, or twists in the whole integrated practice of the profession; we talk of the mobile forces which engender change and where the future of architecture may lie. ‘Motion’ therefore also encapsulates the past, the present, and the possible future of the profession." Ben van Berkel, co-founder/principal architect of UNStudio, holds the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor's Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and is Professor of Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, earning an AA diploma with honors in 1987. In 1988, he and Caroline Bos set up an architectural practice in Amsterdam. The Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau has realized, among other projects, the Karbouw office building, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, the Moebius House, and the NMR facilities for the University of Utrecht, all in The Netherlands. In 1998, van Berkel and Bos established a new firm: UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Current projects are the restructuring of the stat ion area of Arnhem, the mixed-use Raffles City in Hangzhou, China; a masterplan for Basauri, Spain; a dance theater for St. Petersburg, Russia; and the design and restructuring of the Harbor Ponte Parodi in Genoa, Italy. With UNStudio, van Berkel realized the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany; a facade and interior renovation for the Galleria Department store in Seoul, South Korea; and a private villa in upstate New York. Sylvia Lavin is a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism. In addition to her most recent book, Kissing Architecture, Lavin is the author of Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture, Form Follows Libido, Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture, and the forthcoming The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architecture Contemporaneity. She initiated a series of architecture projects for the Hammer Museum, has been a guest curator for the CCA and Ace Galleries, and is currently working on a large-scale exhibition, Fin-de-Sixties LA: From Pop to Postmodernism. Lavin is the Director of Critical Studies in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and other international schools of architecture, and is the Director of Hi-C, a design/research group that supports architecture in the publi c realm. The presentation and discussion will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips AIA, PhD, associate professor, and director of the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. This event is available to the public with tickets that can be reserved/purchased online from the A+D Museum: http://www.aplusd.org Individual Tickets $15; Students $7 with valid ID; A+D Members and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Students and Alumni free with RSVP online. Limited Seating. http://aplusd.org/incollaboration
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