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SCI-ARC EVENTS
$UFKLWHFWXUH DQG %HDXW\ $ 7URXEOHG 5HODWLRQVKLS Over 1,500 guests attended the outdoor symposium sponsored in part by the SCI-Arc Alumni Association to witness a rare dialogue between architects featured in the book Architecture and Beauty: Conversations with Architects about a Troubled Relationship. Moderated by interviewer Yael Reisner, with Hernan Diaz Alonso, Sir Peter Cook, Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss, the live format dissolved the pagination of chapters, exposing to the public and each other their positions on “whether they think beauty is integral or non-essential to architecture.�
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UPCOMING
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Commencement
CAArt: PublicWorks Exhibition
February 4–March 13, 2011
SIR PETER COOK Let’s Fly—It’s Architecture Founder of Archigram, Director of CRAB, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lecture
PAOLO CASCONE February 16, 7pm Eco_Logic Design: Towards High-Tech Design, Low-Tech-Construction Principal of COdesignLab; Director of Urban Ecologies program, ESA, Paris W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Parametricism and the Autopoiesis of Architecture Partner, Zaha Hadid Architects; Founding Director, AADRL, London
November 5, 2010–January 28, 2011 For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await ANOTHER VOICE. (with apologies to T S Eliot) CAArt: PublicWorks 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles CA 90067
Symposium
Lecture
MICHAEL ROTONDI
Moderated by Dr. Yael Reisner, with Hernan Diaz Alonso, Sir Peter Cook, Frank O. Gehry, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss
November 10, 7pm Guerilla Style THEVERYMANY, New York W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Lecture
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition Discussion + Reception
BARBARA BESTOR
Totally Generic Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York/Paris; Professor, Columbia University SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
November 19, 2010–January 9, 2011 Part II: Whispers and Echoes Coy Howard and Eric Owen Moss discuss the exhibition November 19, 7pm SCI-Arc Gallery, reception to follow
Lecture
Part I: From Hand to Mouse, From Furniture to Architecture
Lecture
Symposium and Library Gallery Exhibition
December 1, 7pm Alles ist Architektur (Everything is Architecture) Architect, Vienna W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Lecture
PATRIK SCHUMACHER
ARCHITECTURE AND BEAUTY, A TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP
BERNARD TSCHUMI
COY HOWARD
LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH CORRIDOR COMPETITION Announcement of winners, jury discussion, and exhibition reception Lecture
MARC FORNES
COY HOWARD
HANS HOLLEIN
Lecture
HILARY SAMPLE
Quadraturin and Other Architectural Expansionary Tales BLDGBLOG, Los Angeles
December 8, 7pm Recent Work MOS Architects, New York W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Lecture
BRENDAN MACFARLANE
Lecture
Walk Principal, Jakob + MacFarlane, Paris
JAKOB + MACFARLANE
January 19, 7pm Austral Group: A CIAM Brigade in the Far South, 1937-1948 Dean, School of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
November 3 – December 12 About
Lecture
GEOFF MANAUGH
Library Gallery Exhibition Yael Reisner, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank O. Gehry, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Sir Peter Cook Photography by Rafael Sampaio Rocha
BRENDAN MACFARLANE, YAOHUA WANG, AND JOANNA-MARIA HELINURM
PATRICK TIGHE
JORGE FRANCISCO LIERNUR
HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO February 2, 7pm The Forms of Plenty 3ULQFLSDO RI ;HĂ€URWDUFK *UDGXDWH 3URJUDPV &KDLU 6&, $UF W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Lecture
March 23, 7pm From the Center RoTo Architects; Distinguished Faculty Member, SCI-Arc W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
April 1–May 15 Silent Disco Barbara Bestor and Eric Owen Moss discuss the exhibition April 8, 7pm SCI-Arc Gallery, reception to follow
FRANÇOIS ROCHE April 6, 7pm R&Sie(n), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Advanced Research, Columbia University W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Additional spring dates will be announced soon. Lectures and discussions are broadcast live online at sciarc.edu/live. No reservations are required. Admission and parking are free. The SCI-Arc Gallery is open daily from 10am-6pm. SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick Street, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue. SCI-Arc Public Programs are subject to change beyond our control. For the most current information, please visit sciarc.edu or call 213.613.2200. To join SCI-Arc’s Public Programs email list, contact public_programs@sciarc.edu