For this workshop, assistant professor Igor Siddiqui shared his recent work on made-from-scratch biodegradable plastics. Siddiqui has refined a technique that combines high and low technologies to create intricately patterned forms from 100% edible, compostable materials, cast in CNC-routed acrylic molds. Participants observed and participated in the process of mixing, cooking, and casting the material; the outcome of the workshop was a large-scale light installation for a reading corner of the Materials Lab.
On Friday, November 14, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Gabriel Diaz Montemayor as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. He presented "What Do You See Out There?"
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
ENRIC BATLLE I DURANY lectures at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) since 1982. He is coordinator and teacher of the UPC Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture, and teacher at the Department of Urbanism and Territorial Planning at the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC), where he coordinates the school’s Architecture & Projects Workshop IV, landscape & environment themed.
INSTALLATION ARCHITECTURE
Matt Fajkus Architecture
Materials Lab
Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based firm founded by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. The pair's interest lies in diverse fields ranging from architectural design to urban research and the creation of public artworks, which are produced, based on the theory called “behaviorology”.
The practice has designed and built houses, public and commercial buildings mainly in Tokyo, as well as Europe and the USA. Their urban research studies lead to experimental project 'micro-public-space', a new concept of the public space, which has been exhibited across the world.
Lunchtime screenings
Something new every week.
MWF, 12 - 12:50, 1 - 1:50
WMB 3.102
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (2010)
Eric Bricker
University Co-op Materials Lab
The Visual Resources Collection is excited to announce black-and-white darkroom photography workshops for the Fall 2014 semester. The two-part tutorial will be offered on Black & White Film Developing (first session) and Printing Processes (second session). Either black & white photography workshop will satisfy the orientation requirements needed for future darkroom use.
Presenter: Jana McCann, FAIA. CEO of McCann Adams Studio
McCann presents the different approaches to public engagement on her studio’s projects, ranging from the Paris Metro, to the Mueller Redevelopment, to The Old Bakery and the Central Health Downtown Campus Redevelopment in downtown Austin. What is McCann Adams’ evolving relationship with this new art form? How does one realize its potential to positively affect public and private sector projects? McCann also touches on some of the negative impacts of public engagement gone awry.