UCLA Architecture and Urban Design announces events for spring 2013

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UCLA Architecture and Urban Design presents a series of public events this spring, including lectures and exhibitions. Lectures offer the opportunity to hear about the new work of prominent architects, designers, theorists and historians and are presented at 6:30 p.m. in UCLA's Decafé (Perloff Hall, Room 1302), unless otherwise noted.      

 

Exhibitions feature innovative student and faculty work, as well as the work of local and national architects, artists and designers, and are presented in the Perloff Gallery (Perloff Hall, Room 1318) and the Perloff Main Hallway. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed on campus holidays).             

 

All events are free and open to the public. Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, call 310-267-4704 or visit www.aud.ucla.edu. All-day parking ($11) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 3 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).      

 

FREE EXHIBITIONS      

 

April 1–12

Opening reception: Monday, April 1, 6–8 p.m. 

 

This exhibition highlights UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's best student work from the 2012 winter quarter.

 

 

April 15–May 31

Opening reception: Friday, April 12, 6–8 p.m.

 

The contemporary alternative architectural press, edited and written by architects, artists and students, provides new and exciting platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture. "ARCHIZINES" highlights the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world. 

 

The touring exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone and initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, now features 90 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from more than 20 countries that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. 

 

 

June 10–17

RUMBLE    

Exposition opening: Monday, June 10, 6–9 p.m.

Final reviews: Tuesday, June 11, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. 

 

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's end-of-the-year, all-school exposition engages students, faculty and the international design community in a discourse on the forefront of contemporary design and innovation. With 10,000 square feet of studio and program installations, 200 projects on view, and 90 leading critics and practitioners, RUMBLE redefines the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects.

 

 

 

Friday, April 12

 

Moderated by Sylvia Lavin, a UCLA architecture and urban design professor and director of critical studies, this discussion will bring together architecture, art and design publishers to explore the different approaches to subversive visual culture and how this relates to architectural criticism. 

 

Panelists will include Elias Redstone, curator of the "ARCHIZINES" exhibition; Susan Morgan, editor of the magazine Art Papers on Design and Architecture; Thomas Lawson, dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts and editor of the online art magazine East of Borneo; John Southern, founding principal of Urban Operations; Leonard Koren, editor of Wet magazine; and Mimi Zeiger, journalist and critic.  

 

 

Monday, April 15

 

David Ruy is an architect and theorist. He received his M.Arch. degree from Columbia University and a bachelor's from St. John's College, where he studied philosophy and mathematics. Ruy is currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at the Pratt Institute, where he is also the director of the Network for Emerging Architectural Research (NEAR). Ruy and Karel Klein are the principals of Ruy Klein in New York City. Recognized as one of the leading experimental practices in architecture today, Ruy Klein examines contemporary design problems at the intersection of architecture, nature and technology.

 

 

Monday, April 22

 

Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have worked together since 1999, first at Ábalos and Herreros and since 2006 as Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos in Madrid. The work they develop stands out for proposing an original synthesis of technical rigor, formal imagination and discipline integration among architecture, environment and landscape — an approach they have named "A Thermodynamic Beauty." Ábalos and Sentkiewicz have received awards at many international competitions and have been widely published.

 

 

Monday, April 29

 

Donald Bates is the chair of architectural design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at Australia's University of Melbourne. He is a founder and director of LAB Architecture Studio, an architectural and urban design practice based in Melbourne, with offices in Shanghai, London, Delhi and Dubai. Bates is a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel and will be a juror at the forthcoming World Architecture Festival in Singapore. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London and the Cooper Union in New York City and has lectured at more than 170 schools and institutions throughout the world.

 

 

Monday, May 6

 

Monica Ponce de Leon is the dean of the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and is design director of the architecture firm MPdL Studio, with offices in New York, Boston and Ann Arbor, Mich. Her work is internationally recognized for its innovation in design. In particular, Ponce de Leon has been a leader in the use of robotic technology in building fabrication. During her directorship of Harvard's Digital Lab, her research was the first in the U.S. to investigate the use of robotics in fabrication for buildings. Advanced fabrication techniques deployed in projects such as the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, the Conrad Hilton Hotel in New York City and the Helios House in Los Angeles were first developed in her lab and are the result of the application of Ponce de Leon's academic research to practice. Because of her innovative use of technology, she has received numerous awards, including the National Design Award in Architecture from the Cooper–Hewitt National Design Museum, the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Institute of Architects' Institute Honor Award.

 

 

Wednesday, May 8

 

Atelier Bow-Wow was established in Tokyo in 1992 by the husband-and-wife team of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Best known for its surprising, idiosyncratic, yet highly usable residential projects in dense urban environments, the firm has developed its practice based on a profound and unprejudiced study of existing cultural, economic and environmental conditions — a study that led it to propose the term "pet architecture" for the multitude of odd, ungainly, but functional little buildings wedged into tiny sites around Tokyo. Atelier Bow-Wow has also acquired an enthusiastic following through its Micro Public Space projects and its innovative projects at the 2010 Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Bienal, as well as at venues such as the Hayward in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, The Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Japan Society in New York City, and the OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich in Linz, Austria. Tsukamoto is also an associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Building Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

 

 

Monday, May 20

Architecture and Urban Design Teaching Fellow Lecture 2012–13:

 

Andrew Kovacs was born in Chicago and has worked for RE X in New York City, OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam and Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo. In 2011, he received a Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship in Architecture from Princeton University for his proposal "A Tale of Two Masterplans" to study the architecture and urbanism of the two major cities in Kazakhstan — Astana and Almaty. His written work on architecture and urbanism has been published in journals such as PIDGIN and PROJECT. Additionally, Kovacs is the creator and curator of Archive of Affinities, a website dedicated to the architectural B-side.

 

 

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