Sunday, March 26, 2006

People Talking About Architecture – 03.30.2006

Pratt:
Ricky Burdett - Urban Transformations
6:00 PM - Higgins Hall Auditorium

Columbia University:
Symposium/Exihibit - Chaos, Delirium and the Phantom Territories
8:00 PM - Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
It is not understood if this is an architectural event, but giving it the benefit of the doubt, it is posted. This event is billed as the official introduction to a new movement entitled “The Breaking”. To quote Columbia's literature, "At this occasion, unseen procedures of perception and experience will be exposed and encountered. By traversing the borders of the real and turning thought into action, the opening night of the Center for Broken Thought intends to provide a bridge to the extreme, and therein a new form of vitality."

University of Pennsylvania:
Terence Riley - Modern in a Post-modern World
06:30pm | B-1 Meyerson Hall
The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA and Principal of K/R Architects may be delivering his last lecture with that first title.

Syracuse University:
Aaron Betsky - How Dutch Design Will Save You
4:30 PM - Slocum 108
The Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam will have some explaining to do with a lecture title like that.

New York:
Wolf Prix presents the Busan Cinema Center
6:00 PM - Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place)
The co-founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au, will present the competition winning proposal for the Busan Cinema Center in Busan for South Korea. The project will serve as home of the Pusan International Film Festival, and is billed to suggest new intersections between architecture, cultural programs and public space that create lively and vibrant icons within the urban landscape.

Washington University:
Olafur Eliasson - Moelmania
6:00 PM - Steinberg Auditorium
This lecture simultaneously inaugurates the international symposium After the Digital Divide? German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media and concludes the series Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!

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