REMOTE LECTURE
Andreas Bründler: Constellations - Correlations

Tuesday, April 21
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM

Andreas Bründler and Daniel Buchner founded Buchner Bründler in 1997 after having studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Basel. Context and space play a central role in their work, which has been awarded numerous prizes. Recent awards include the Swiss Art Award and Concrete Award 13. They teach at the EPF Lausanne and the ETH Zurich.

Under the title "Constellations – Correlations", the lecture traces the interaction between projects of different scales and complexity using specific topics from their work. The majority of their works are engaged with the city and society and lead to differentiated designs. In addition, small projects hold a special position within their oeuvre.
Their small projects are concentrated artifacts of architectural thinking and action. Seen in this way, the clarity of their task shifts priorities as external complexity makes room for inner profundity.This approach leads their questioning: how are conceptual approaches found and tested, how do they mature, when do they develop into new architectural forms? 

This lecture will be aired on The Cooper Union website  starting at 6:30PM, followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:15PM. Please register in advance  here . Zoom account registration is required. 
IN-CLASS REMOTE LECTURE
M. Casey Rehm

Thursday, April 23
Zoom | 12:00PM

This lecture is hosted by  Machine Learning For Architecture  Studio IV with professors Benjamin Aranda & Sam Keene.

M. Casey Rehm is a designer and algorithmic consultant based in Los Angeles. He received a MSAAD from Columbia University in 2009 and his B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He has over ten years of architectural experience, working for firms in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London. Both his architectural and interactive media work has been exhibited domestically and internationally. In addition to his professional experience, Rehm has been a full time faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, assisted studios at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pratt Institute and taught workshops at The University of Kentucky. Currently he teaches graduate design studios and seminars in programming and robotics in design at SCI-Arc.

A student led discussion will follow the lecture. 

This remote lecture and discussion is free and accessible to the public.  

This lecture will take place on Zoom starting at 12:00PM EST. Please register in advance  here . Zoom account registration is required. 
REMOTE LECTURE
Andrea Simitch: Context Matters - Pedagogy in an Expanding Landscape

Thursday, April 23
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM

The making of architecture is dependent on a critical translation of context - one that informs the production of INFORMED FORM: work that has the capacity to engage in distinct forms of dialog with the contexts in which it is located. As educators we must demand a deep reading of context to establish the terms of dialog: to understand where architecture comes from (through studying its cultures and histories), what motivates it (its theories and environments) and what contributes to its production (its technologies and representations).

Andrea Simitch is the   Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. She teaches courses in architectural design, architectural representation, and furniture design. Simitch has been a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts, a department representative for the Cornell Council for the Arts, and was a faculty collaborator with the Andrew Goldsworthy workshop at Storm King. Simitch and Val Warke partner in a collaborative architectural practice. Their recent projects include the Seneca House as featured in Architectural Record, Nalati National Park Resort and the Eco-Tourism Strategic Planning Proposal, both in Nalati, PRC, as well as numerous collaborative design competitions.

This lecture will be aired on The Cooper Union website  starting at 6:30PM, followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:15PM. Please register in advance  here . Zoom account registration is required.