Architecture

Amale Andraos/WORKac "Buildings, People, Plants" The 28th Pietro Belluschi Lecture Amale Andraos, principal of WORKac and professor and dean emeritus at Columbia GSAPP will present her practice’s recent work in a lecture entitled ‘Buildings, People, Plants.’ Andraos ‘s lecture will focus on a series of projects that re-examine architecture’s capacities to actively reshape social and environmental concerns– building on the practice’s focus on public work across scales and contexts to its focus on innovative approaches to preservation, sustainable systems, and a greater integration of architecture and landscape at the scale of buildings, amongst other. Amale Andraos HFRAIC co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Dan Wood. She is a Principal of the firm as well as a Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University, where she recently served as an Advisor on the University’s Climate Initiatives and for the newly-launched Climate School. Her publications include The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East. WORKac is committed to creating architecture that engages environmental and social concerns with a focus on public, cultural and civic projects. The practice has achieved international acclaim for projects such as the Edible Schoolyards in Brooklyn and Harlem, a public library for Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, the Miami Museum Garage, the Student Success Center at the Rhode Island School of Design, a new branch for the Brooklyn Public Library in DUMBO, and two community centers in Mexico City in collaboration with IUA. Current projects include the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, a Public Library for Boulder, Colorado, a new commercial building in Mission Bay, San Francisco, and a new space for the Peoples Theater Project, in Inwood, New York City. Lectures are free and open to the public. Learn more: https://architecture.mit.edu/events/amale-andraosworkac

Stanford University Spring Lecture Series Architecture + Landscape + Urban Design Jason Frantzen Herzog & DeMeuron May 29, 2024 Hosted by Zach Pozner

In conjunction with Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, this evening's discussion expands on three issues central to the exhibition: common history, collective civic space, and community building. Beti Žerovc, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, addresses common history; Branislav Dimitrijevi?, Professor of History and Theory of Art, College of Art and Design, Belgrade, discusses the idea of collective civic space; and Ana Džoki? and Marc Neelen of STEALTH.unlimited address community building. Following the presentations, Zagreb-based architect, critic, and curator Maroje Mrduljaš moderates a roundtable discussion on how Yugoslavia’s architectural legacy can be seen as a model to produce better architecture and more equitable cities today. Exhibition co-organizers Vladimir Kuli? and Martino Stierli introduce the program. Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: https://moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.  Image: Andrija Mutnjakovi? (b. 1929). National and University Library of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo. 1971–82. Exterior view. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016 #concreteutopia #architecture #yugoslavia #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart #brutalism #brutalist #internationalsyle

Yale School of Architecture Public Lecture Series Professor Jones discusses her illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini - reintroducing Albini’s contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Kay Bea Jones George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857 Memorial Lecture September 11, 2014

We visited Peter Zumthor – one of the world’s leading architects – in his studio in Switzerland. In this extensive and rare biographical video interview, he tells the captivating story of his childhood, his studies in NYC and his parents’ strong influence. Zumthor – who works from the small town of Haldenstein in Switzerland – likes being outside the big centres of the world, as it frees him of having to consider the opinions of his fellow colleagues: “If you work like an artist, you need your own separate space.” He does, however, also work well in the “anonymous sound” of a city, where it is also possible to find calm in “a protective ocean of sound.” There are, Zumthor feels, different kinds of silence, and finding one’s mental silence – being able to concentrate – is what is most important in order to work well. “There’s nothing I’m not interested in.” Zumthor loves literature and music, but prides himself in taking an overall interest in different things, as it fuels him: “It’s a nourishing ground.” His constant appetite for learning gives him the tools to be able to understand whatever place or landscape he needs to work in, and being able to “feel a space” and having an idea of how to react as an architect, is essential. When he designs his innovative architecture, Zumthor furthermore puts great emphasis on connecting the old with the new, rather than breaking with history. Likewise, he feels that all architects have a great social responsibility when it comes to creating buildings, which are both well crafted and sustainable. Anything can be considered art as long as it’s done with personal devotion to the making of it, Zumthor argues: “I never decided to become an architect.” Starting out as an industrial designer, it was not until 1968 that he made the decision of becoming an architect and began participating in competitions, thinking to himself: “I can do this better.” As for the first competition he entered, he was kicked out in the first round – a pivotal experience that made him aware of the need to always improve. Peter Zumthor (b. 1943) is a Swiss architect. Among his best-known projects are the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, the thermal baths in Vals in Switzerland, the Swiss Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hannover (an all-timber structure intended to be recycled after the event) and the Kolumba Diocesan Museum in Cologne. Zumthor is the winner of several prestigious awards such as the 1998 Carlsberg Architecture Prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (1999), the Praemium Imperiale (2008), the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He lives and works in Switzerland. For more about Peter Zumthor see: http://zumthor.tumblr.com/ Peter Zumthor was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland in May 2015. Camera: Klaus Elmer Edited by: Klaus Elmer Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015 Supported by Nordea-fonden #PeterZumthor #Architecture

This First Year Architecture lecture was recorded on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja for students of Curtin University's Architecture School. This lecture series is part of my unit Visual Literacy, where we learn the visual language of architecture, and how to express our ideas to others. This is lecture one: "What are Architectural Drawing Conventions?"