Architecture
Lectures Spring 2008
All lectures are held at 6pm on
Temple University’s Main Campus
CEA Building Room 126
1947 North 12th Street
1/30/08
Scott Shall
International Design Clinic / sgsa+d /
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Scott Gerald Shall is the principal of
sgsa+d, the director of the
International Design Clinic (IDC), and a
professor of Architecture at Temple
University. Scott Shall’s design work is
based upon an ongoing study into issues
ranging from sustainability and indigenous
construction methodologies to contemporary
cognitive patterns and learning processes.
Through his work, Mr. Shall has developed a
unique guerrilla-style design process, which
he teaches to his students through a series
of design-abroad projects. To aid this
effort, Professor Shall has founded the
International Design Clinic – a
registered not-for-profit dedicated to
giving students of design the chance to use
their skills as designers to aid communities
in need around the world. In the summer of
2006, this work was centered in Oradea,
Romania, where participating students spent
four weeks designing and constructing a
playground for abandoned children.
2/20/08
Hansy L. Better Barraza and Anthony
Piermarini
Studio Luz Architects
Boston, MA
Founded in 2002 by Anthony Piermarini and
Hansy Better Barraza,
Studio Luz Architects was
identified by Architectural Record as a
leading emerging practice in 2006. They
received a 2007 Architecture award for their
design of Campus of Hope in Haiti.
Studio Luz Architects is a design practice that strives to
link social responsibility, sustainable
construction practices with built material
expression. Principals Hansy Better Barraza
and Anthony Piermarini find inspiration in
popular culture, local craft, and
abstraction to redefine traditional uses of
space, materials, and technology. Studio
Luz Architects believes architecture to
be a collective enterprise and organizes
strategic collaborations between clients,
fabricators, engineers, and building
contractors.
4/09/08
John Palmesino
PALMESINO RONNSKOG
Territorial Agency / ETH Studio
Basel–Contemporary City Institute
Basel, Switzerland
John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist.
His research and projects deal with the
material transformation patterns of
contemporary territories. Mr. Palmesino is
co-founder of PALMESINO RÖNNSKOG
Territorial Agency, a practice involved
in the management of international
innovative transformations of the
contemporary inhabited landscape and its
architecture. He leads the research of
ETH Studio Basel–Contemporary City Institute
and is a founding member of multiplicity,
a research network dealing with contemporary
architecture, urbanism, arts and general
culture. John Palmesino is currently
studying the implications of neutrality in
within political, territorial and
architectural transformations.
This
lecture is co-sponsorship with the
Slought Foundation.
Slought Foundation
('Sl-aw-t') is a not-for-profit organization
in Philadelphia that broadly encourages new
futures for contemporary life through public
programs featuring international artists,
architects, and theorists. The foundation’s
programs are purposely critical and
provocative in an intimate and participatory
environment, and we invite our audiences to
consider criticality itself as a source of
dynamism and enjoyment.
4/23/08
Thorsten Deckler and Anne Graupner
26’10 South Architects
Johannesberg, South Africa
26’10
south Architects (formed in 2004) is
a young, experimental practice which
consciously sets out to work in all spheres
of the South African context: the township,
inner city, suburb and open landscape.
Instead of specializing, their practice
continues to diversify into fields of event
planning, urban design, product and
exhibition design. Often operating in a
need based context 26’10 strives to find
ways in which to turn constraints into
opportunities. Community and client
interaction forms a crucial part of their
design process. In several of their
projects 26’10 have explored the immediacy
and ad-hoc nature of informal networks and
events in order to achieve a “lighter” form
of planning and urbanism as counter point to
prevalent top-down approaches. 26’10 has
received local and international
commendations. As part of the sharpCITY
collective both partners have co-curated
exhibitions on Johannesburg at the Sao Paulo
Bienal, the Venice Bienale and at the AzW n
Vienna.
Architecture
Lectures Fall 2007
RECENT WORK
Jennifer Lee and Pablo Castro, OBRA
Architects,
New York City
Wednesday, September 12, 6pm
CEA Building, Room 126, Main Campus
OBRA Architects was founded by Pablo Castro
and Jennifer Lee in the year 2000 in New
York City. The work of OBRA has been
exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, PS1
Contemporary Art Center, Rhode Island School
of Design, the Chicago Athenaeum, as part of
the ACADIA Fabrication Conference held in
Ontario, Canada, and at the Sandton
Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South
Africa. OBRA Architects was named one of
2005 Emerging Voices by the Architectural
League of New York. Their work has been
honored with two American Architecture
Awards by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of
Architecture and Design. OBRA is the winner
of the 2006 PS1/MoMA Young Architects
Program competition.
EVOKING SPIRIT, EMBRACING MEMORY
: a panel discussion
The Village of Arts and Humanities
Philadelphia
Wednesday, September 26, 6pm
CEA Building, Room 126, Main Campus
Lauren Gutierrez, Exhibition Coordinator
Kumani Gantt, Artistic and Executive
Director
Linda Goss, Curator
Homer Jackson, Curator
Joyce Scott, Curator
The Village of Arts and Humanities
participates in a panel discussion amongst
the curators and the artists of the
exhibition, entitled Evoking Spirit,
Embracing Memory. Held
at
the Village of Arts and Humanities, the
exhibition runs from September 14 – October
22, 2007 (www.villagearts.org /
215.225.7830) and documents a large piece of
the neighborhood's oral history. Curators
and exhibition organizers will speak on the
significance of community art to the area of
North Philadelphia. This event is
co-sponsored by the Departments of Art and
Art Education and Architecture, in
affiliation with the Urban Workshop and the
Community Arts Program.
TRAVERSING LANDSCAPE
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip
Da Cunha,
Mathur/Da Cunha, Philadelphia
Wednesday, October 24, 6pm
CEA Building, Room 126, Main Campus
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are
award-winning designers-planners who have
focused their expertise for the past decade
on cultural and ecological issues of
contentious landscapes. Mathur and Da
Cunha's investigations have taken them to
diverse terrains including the Lower
Mississippi, New York, Sundarbans, Rio
Grande, and Bangalore. Mathur and da Cunha
received the Young Architects Award for 2000
given by the Architectural League of New
York. Their awarded projects are included in
a publication by Princeton Architectural
Press and the Architectural League titled
Second Nature. Mathur and da Cunha’s most
recent book, Deccan Traverses: the Making of
Bangalore’s Terrain followed a public
exhibition held in the Glass House of
Lalbagh, Bangalore, in October 2004. The
book and exhibition bring together a unique
and extensive documentation of Bangalore’s
history and landscape agency and are
directed toward an innovative design
strategy for Bangalore and its extended
region.
PROJECTS IN PLAY
J. Meejin Yoon,
MIT/MY STUDIO/HOWELER+YOON ARCHITECTURE,
Boston
Wednesday, November 07, 6pm
CEA Building, Room 126, Main Campus
J. Meejin Yoon is the founder of MY Studio.
Her interdisciplinary design projects
include architectural projects, interactive
installations, concept clothing and artist
books. Recent projects include White Noise
White Light , an interactive installation
for the Athens 2004 Olympics, an exhibition
design in collaboration with TEN-Arquitectos
for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and
the Mobius Dress. Yoon’s work received three
Design Distinction awards from I.D. Magazine
in the 2004, and has been published in
Material Process: Young Architects 4, New
York Arts Magazine, and Domus. She was a
recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the
Young Architects Award by the Architectural
League of New York in 2002 and the Rome
Prize Fellowship in Design by the American
Academy in Rome in 2005.
INVESTIGATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE
: thesis student presentations
Temple University Architecture Department
Philadelphia
Tuesday, November 27 and Wednesday, November
28, 6pm
CEA Building, Room 126, Main Campus
Students in the final year of Temple
University’s Bachelor of Architecture
Program lead short presentations on their
architectural thesis proposals. The
presentations, diverse in topic and intent,
will highlight the nature of current
speculative investigation in architecture,
linked to contemporary modes of analysis,
research, and design theory. Presentations
will emphasize the relationship between
design concept, methods of inquiry and
visual expressions of design communication.
Architecture
Exhibits
Fall 2007
All exhibitions are held on Temple
University’s Main Campus
CEA Building Gallery 124 /
1947 North 12th Street .
Philadelphia . PA
Measures of Memory: A Student-Curated
Exhibition
September 10 – 28
Reception: September 12, 8pm
CEA Building, Gallery 124, Main Campus
A student-curated exhibition focusing on
diverse travel experiences through the eyes
of an architecture student. The exhibit
highlights the Department of Architecture at
Temple University’s commitment to study
abroad programs as well as individual travel
by students within the program. The exhibit
displays contemporary architecture’s
international awareness through photographs
and written experiences.
Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore’s
Terrain
October 08 – October 29
Reception: October 24, 8pm
CEA Building, Gallery 124, Main Campus
An exhibition of work by architects-planners
and educators, Anu Mathur and Dilip daCunha
presenting a unique and extensive
documentation of Bangalore’s history and
landscape agency, directed toward an
innovative design strategy for Bangalore and
its extended region. This public exhibition
was first held in the Glass House of Lalbagh,
Bangalore, in October 2004 and was followed
by the publication of Deccan Traverses: the
Making of Bangalore’s Terrain.
The Reality of the Unbuilt: An Exhibition of
Architectural Drawings
November 05 – November 23
Reception: November 07, 8pm
CEA Building, Gallery 124, Main Campus
An exhibition curated by Temple University
Architecture faculty members, Jack Fanning,
Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel presenting a
diverse range of architectural
representation. The exhibition aims to
engage representation as an ideology and
reposition its importance in a contemporary
context by highlighting drawings that reveal
a process of thinking and exploration rather
than those that document a product or a
thing. It likewise explores the value of the
unbuilt the architectural field.
