People Talking About Architecture – 05.03.2006

Harvard University:
Bjarke Ingels - Architecture and Evolution
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

New York:
PERSPECTA 38: Architecture After All (Launch Party)
6:30 PM - USM Modular Furniture (28-30 Greene Street)
“Perspecta 38: Architecture After All probes various issues of contemporary research and practice—globalization, urbanism, ideology, image and technology, as well as form, pedagogy, theory and meaning. The essays are cross-sections of a larger topic at hand, as the field calibrates itself through investigation of network practices and interdisciplinary exchange, the changing role or relevance of theory, and technique enabled by technology.”

Stanford University:
Joseph Tanney - The Modern Modular by Resolution: 4 Architecture
6:30 PM.- Cubberley Auditorium
The firm's most current efforts have been focused on leveraging existing methods of prefabrication and the potential for mass-customization to produce a viable modern option in the housing market. Mr. Tanney will likely speak about recently earning the 2006 American Institute of Architects housing award for innovation in housing design.

Catholic University:
Joseph Brown - Recent Work
6:00 PM – Crough Center