This lecture will focus on the studio's research into artificial intelligence and design. The lecture will discuss the limitations and inherent inductive stagnation of collective valuation and feed-forward machine learning. It will also explore the generative potentials of these systems to rethink disciplinary "truths" and the significance of diagram-based practices in a contemporary social and technological context.
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Please join us Friday, January 31 at 12:00pm to celebrate the launch of our new book, Centerline 14: Time for Timber, edited by Ulrich Dangel.
Centerline 14: Time for Timber declares that wood has claimed its seat at the table, leading the conversation about sustainable building materials. This publication summarizes the thoughts, observations, and opinions of the speakers at the Time for Timber exhibition and symposium held at the UTSOA in February, 2017.
How might the geographic imagination convert into image and narrative the climate crisis, not only as a calamity of the physical environment but also as a predicament of the cultural one - of the systems of representation through which society relates to complex and unknown environmental futures?
On Friday, January 24, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Mark Macek and Izabella Nuckels as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series, presenting a discussion entitled "Craft," to be moderated by Igor Siddiqui.
Each month researchers at UT Austin gather for monthly Brown Bag Lunch Discussions to present their current projects and discuss their findings with fellow researchers and students. This November Ph.D. students in Community and Regional Planning program, Ziqi Liu and Shunhua Bai would share their ongoing research with us. Mark your calendar and join us in the event!
On Friday, November 22, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Maggie Hansen as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
When: Friday, November 15, 10am- 12pm
Where: WMB 5th floor hallway
What: At this yearly exhibition event, researchers present their ongoing research projects for the five-year Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) consortium.
GRASSES was the first of a series of curated collections at the Materials Lab showcasing diverse themes found within our 28,000+ samples. The exhibition, held in Fall 2019, showcased a wide range of material products derived from the Graminae family of flowering plants. Grasses are defined by their hollow stems which join at alternating, sheathing leaves, and flowers arranged in spikelets. Of more than 12,000 known species, common examples of grasses grown in high volumes around the world include bamboo, corn, rice, sorghum, and wheat.