Smout Allen Lecture »
EVDS Design Matters Lecture Series
Smout Allen, Smout Allen Architects
Mark Smout and Laura Allen are senior lecturers at the Barlett School of Architecture, UCL. Their work focuses on architectural competitions and conceptual design projects. Emphasis is placed on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man-made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of architectural landscape.
When: Jan 5, 2010, Calgary
Info: http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds/design_matters/oct
Cost: $5 at door
Arthur Erickson's Wunderkammer »
lecture with
MICHELANGELO SABATINO
Michelangelo Sabatino, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston. He was trained as an architect and architectural historian in Venice and Toronto.
His publications on European and North-American architecture and urbanism have appeared in journals such as Casabella, Cite, Harvard Design Magazine, JAE, JOA, JSSAC, JSAH, Places, and Rotunda.
wednesday, jan. 13, 6 pm PF 2165
February lecture - Andrew Kudless - FLUX »
Date: February 18, 2010
Lecture will go from 7-8:30 pm followed by a cash bar reception
Location: Uptown Stage and Screen (612 8 Ave SW)
The work of the emerging research and design firm Matsys will be explored through the relationship between form, fabrication, and performance. Several projects from the firm’s work will be discussed in regards to how digital tools such as parametric modeling and scripting can facilitate a more integrated practice of architecture. The firm’s work ranges from art installations to architecture to urban design, however at all scales the work is firmly rooted in the innovative uses of new technologies.
About Andrew Kudless
Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the - Anythi Andrew has taught at The Ohio State University, the Architectural Association, and Yale University. In 2005 Andrew was the Howard E. LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners at OSU. He has a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. He is the recipient of a 2004 FEIDAD Design Merit Award and a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship in Japan. He has worked as a designer for Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York and as a digital design consultant for Expedition Engineering in London. The work of Matsys has been published in the journals/magazines Praxis, Mark, and Pasajas and has been shown in exhibitions in the United States, England, France, and China. In 2009 he completed a large-scale commissioned installation for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
About Matsys
Established in 2004 by Andrew Kudless, Matsys is a design studio that explores the emergent
relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Based on the idea that architecture can be understood as a material body with its own intrinsic and extrinsic forces
relating to form, growth, and behavior, the studio investigates methodologies of performative
integration through geometric and material differentiation. The studio’s work ranges from
speculative and built projects to the crafting of new tools which facilitate an interdisciplinary
approach to the design and fabrication of architecture.
Sponsors:
Andrew Kudless will visit EVDS as part of the Dale Taylor Visiting Lectureship - an intensive one-week workshop course offered to senior students. This program was named to honour Dale Taylor, FRAIC, a past Director of the Architecture program.
The EVDS Design Matters lecture series is sponsored by: The Kayak
Foundation at the Calgary Foundation, Stantec Architecture, HOK,
Marshall Tittemore Architects, Nexen, the Calgary Airport Authority,
The City of Calgary, RGO Flooring, RGO Office Products, Section 23
Group, Shaw Contract Group, Simpson Roberts Architecture, Steelcase,
Steel Structures Education Foundation
Design Matters - March: Alistair Bath »
March: Alistair Bath
Human Dimensions: Working with People Towards Conservation
Alistair Bath . Memorial University . Saint John’s
Date: Thursday, March 25
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Uptown Stage and Screen - 612, 8 Ave SW
Price: $5 at the door. FREE for U of C students
Description:
When it comes to wildlife management issues, listening to locals is generally the most effective way to achieve positive results in conservation efforts. Dr. Alistair Bath, a world expert with over 20 years of experience in wildlife management and conservation, is making a trip to Calgary to teach us valuable lessons from the exciting field of human dimensions in natural resource management including a variety of colourful images and examples from around the world.
In his talk, Bath will take us from Kenya to Turkey and throughout Europe and North America with a special stop in Yellowstone National Park, illustrating wildlife-human interactions and his various on-the-ground applied conservation projects.
EVDS and Bath invite all Calgarians to come and learn how by working with people, rather than against them, one can find better solutions and achieve much greater things in conservation efforts.
Bath is a member of the IUCN/SSC Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe and has led various research projects throughout Europe on large carnivores. Bath has also worked on wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park as well as wolf control issues in Yukon.
Through human dimensions research and his applied human dimensions facilitated workshop approach, Bath understands the nature of the conflict and works with groups to understand and address the key issues. He has taught human dimension courses in conservation biology programs in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Poland, and Portugal and has been an invited keynote speaker to international wolf and bear conferences. Bath enjoys working with people and finding solutions to the conservation challenges that we face today.
April: Ferda Kolatan »
From Fitness to Finesse
Ferda Kolatan . su11 architecture + design . New York, US
Date: Thursday, April 22
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Uptown Stage and Screen - 612, 8 Ave SW
Price: $5 at the door. FREE for U of C students
Description:
From Fitness to Finesse will focus on the recent projects and research of Ferda Kolatan’s award-winning firm, su11 architecture+design. Based in New York, su11 is committed to the deliberate and opportunistic use of technologies which “are crucial in generating work that evokes new desires, engages intellectual curiosity and widens imagination.”
Design has been transforming rapidly in recent years through advances in new media, fabrication technology and material intelligence resulting in a frantic production of digital output. Kolatan will discuss the connections between software, technique and material intelligence and its aesthetic effects on contemporary culture in the final event of the 2009/2010 Design Matters Lecture Series.
Kolatan completed his Master of Architecture at Columbia University where he received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price and the Honor Award for Excellence in Design. su11 has been awarded the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for Best New Designer in 2001.
Full Spectrum: The Architecture of Jeremy Sturgess »
Dates: May 7 – September 17, 2010
City: Calgary Alberta Canada
Location: Nickle Museum, University of Calgary
This exhibition on the career of Calgary architect Jeremy Sturgess takes place at the Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary. The exhibition coincides with the launch of a book of the same name, and with the announcement of the creation of the Jeremy Sturgess Archives in the Canadian Architectural Archives.
Edouard Francois Lecture »
M.A.D.E. and CAUSA in partnership with the Alberta Association of Architects, presents a lecture by:
EDOUARD FRANCOIS
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Engineered Air Theatre, Epcor Centre, Calgary
The work of Edouard Francois
Paris based Edouard Francois will share his work on a wide-range of projects. With great interest in use, enviornment, project economics, and innovation of architecture, his buildings and enviornments of note are too numerous to list. The work of Edouard Francois is the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre and the FRAC Centre; and is regularly exposed internationally, including at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Galerie Epreuve d’artiste in Beirut, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Architecture Gallery in Leipzig, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. An alumnus of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Francois is a member of the association of Architectes Francais a l’Export (Afex) and the general assembly of I’Institut Francais d’Architecture. Edouard also enjoys cooking and is a collector of contemporary art.
Edouard Francois was scheduled to speak at Banff Session this past spring, but was detained by the Iceland volcano. Now is your change to see what you missed! Please visit his website for more information on his fascinating body of work.
Julian Bleecker lecture »
Date
November 18 2010
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
Uptown Stage and Screen
Main Body
As part of the Design Matters lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design, Julian Bleecker of Near Future Laboratory in Los Angeles speaks at 7:00pm at the Uptown Stage and Screen in Calgary.
Fees
Admission is $5 but free for University of Calgary students.
Additional Info
For more information, please visit http://www.evds.ucalgary.ca.
Catalyst: Provoking Calgary’s Next Chapter »
Dates
September 29-October 1 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
University of Calgary downtown campus
Website
http://makecalgary.com
Main Body
Hosted by makeCalgary 2011, this event will examine places that have experienced real change and its associated catalysts – the conditions in the social, environmental, cultural and economic realms that provoked the shift to a new chapter. Themes include: Connectivity and Culture in the Downtown Core; Density and Affordability in the Inner City; Collective Space in the Middle Ring Suburbs; and Transportation and Commercial Space in the Periphery. Sites currently under consideration for study include: sections of the CP rail line downtown, laneway redevelopment in Sunnyside, green-space adaptation and rejuvenation in Rundle, and commercial form at Crowfoot Centre. Each of these projects is explicitly linked to existing initiatives or key considerations at the City of Calgary, in keeping with the makeCalgary emphasis on real and upcoming urban opportunities. Transect walks, a panel discussion, and an interdisciplinary design charrette will structure the exploration and lead to an exhibition. makeCalgary 2011 will produce design concepts and proposals for focused action to help provoke Calgary’s next chapter. This year’s panel discussion includes the following participants: Rob Adams, Director of City Design, Melbourne; Ingrid Fetell of New York; Andreu Arriola of Arriola + Fiol Arquitectes, Barcelona; Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary; and Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, Dean of EVDS, University of Calgary.
Additional Info
Over the last decade, Calgarians have engaged in conversations that have shaped a rich vision for their city. Today, Calgary finds itself in the midst of considering and implementing this vision. makeCalgary gathers the energy of designers, community leaders, decision-makers, and interested Calgarians around the challenge of making the Calgary we imagine. Hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, makeCalgary engages interdisciplinary design as a vehicle of change through making. With Calgary as the laboratory, and design as the method, makeCalgary produces concepts and proposals for focused action. Each year, makeCalgary celebrates and energizes a moment in Calgary’s evolution.
Jane Rendell lecture »
Date
October 13 2011
City
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Location
University of Calgary downtown campus
Website
www.ucalgary.ca/evds
Main Body
As part of the lecture series hosted by the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), Jane Rendell of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London delivers the Gillmor Visiting Lectureship at 7:00pm at the University of Calgary downtown campus, located at 906 8th Avenue SW.
Fees
Admission is free for University of Calgary students, and $5 for everyone else.
