The Materials Lab had the pleasure of welcoming Kristof Irwin P.E., Principal at Positive Energy and host of The Building Science Podcast, on Wednesday, February 12 for a Lunch 'n Learn session. Kristof’s background includes 12 years of experience as a custom builder (including deep energy retrofits and zero-net energy projects) and 11 years as a building science consultant. He worked for 14 years as an engineer, research scientist, and physicist for government and university research labs.
The gender chasm in architecture persists. Students see it in their mentors, practitioners experience it in the office, and media representation of the profession follows in kind. While schools of architecture are more and more demographically gender-balanced in their student populations, faculty and the practice both remain vastly skewed,[i]indicating that programming in schools may be leading genders into the profession inequitably or “losing” certain populations along the way, or that the bridge between academia and practice is broken.
Join Career Services for career prep sessions to prepare for the UTSOA Career Fair on Feb 24th!
12:00p - 1:00p in Sutton 3.128
Friday, February 7
Friday, February 14
Friday, February 21
As our transition to sustainable practices becomes more urgent, explorations into cultivated materials have increased. On February 6, 2020, Daniel Reyes, founder of Fungi International, led a hands-on workshop that covered the potential of fungi in the built environment. Participants were provided with growing medium from local waste resources, inoculated with fungi, to grow their own mycelium blocks. Three fungi species were introduced: oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus), reishi (Ganoderma tsugae), and tiger sawgil (Lentinus tigrinus).
Interface Architecture is designed by Casey Rehm. The exhibition will utilize neural networks to simulate an infinitely tall city block, amplifying the banal through automation to produce a speculative context for architecture.
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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.