Large City Architecture Research Exhibition on Display in Mebane Through Mid April
A large-scale exhibition curated by Assistant Professor Daniel Koehler and Lecturer Rasa Navasaityte is currently on display in the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall through April 15, 2022. Featuring more than 150 3D printed models, and work developed via distributed forms of artificial intelligence, the exhibition “Large City Architecture Research” features research completed by the two architects over the course of twelve years at five international institutions.
On Wednesday, February 16 at 5:30 p.m., Koehler and Navasaityte will host a hybrid in-person/virtual event in the exhibition space, where students, faculty, and others in the greater university and Austin community can come together to view the work, hear from the curators, and enjoy refreshments in the Goldsmith Courtyard. The event will also be live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.
Koehler and Navasaityte are architects, urbanists researchers, and co-founders of the architectural research and design practice lab-eds, which explores more ecological, inclusive forms of architectural environments through computation. The two came to the UT School of Architecture in Fall 2019 from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, where they led the Large City Architecture Research Cluster. At the UT School of Architecture, Koehler teaches courses on architecture computation, urban form, city architecture, mereological thinking, and the design of distributive technologies at the urban scale. Navasaityte’s teaching addresses research by design, architectural composition, and the implications of computation on housing and the city’s ecologies.
About the exhibition:
Cities, too large to be just a place, do not occur at the plaza- or street-level their architecture once framed. Larger than humans, cities are planetary ecologies of materials, goods, information, temperature, nature, air. Too large to be squared into a square, a city is larger than—and yet a part of—its architecture. Large cities live within the physical thresholds, gates, switches, and interfaces of their architecture. Today, such plural negotiations can be boosted by integrating distributed forms of artificial intelligence. This exhibition explores forms of community housing created when architectural parts physically compute shared ownership, community amenities, micro-climates, terraced gardens, and carbon sinking. Curated by Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte, the work showcases twelve years of research, developed at five institutions around the world: Die Angewandte Vienna, University Innsbruck, The Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Lab for Environmental Design Strategies.
Participants in chronological order: Rasa Navasaityte, Daniel Koehler, Gil Greis, Maric Sanel, Chen Chen, Genmao Li, Zixuan Wang, Wen Liu, Guangyan Zhu, Junyi Bai, Anna Galika, Qiuru Pu, Silu Meng, Ruohan Xu, Qianying Zhou, Kexin Cao, Yue Jin, Qiming Li, Sheghaf Abo Saleh, Hua Li, Chuwei Ye, Yaonaijia Zhou, Anthony Alvidrez, Shivang Bansal, and Hao-Chen Huang, Dongxin Mei, Zhiyuan Wan, Peiwen Zhan, and Chi Zhou, Mengshi Fu, Ren Wang, Chenyi Yao, and Zhaoyue Zhang, Yao Chen, and Zhaofeng Chen, Ping Ju, Rong Liu, and Jiachong Zhou. Curated by: Daniel Koehler, Rasa Navasaityte. UT Austin, School of Architecture, Spring 22. Visualization by Rob Stepnoski
