I host a one-day AA Visiting School event in Beijing, bringing together two-dozen emerging voices in China, exploring the topic of architectural education in the 21st century.
—August, 2009
Shanghai
A lecture as part of the Public Forum of events at this summer’s AA Visiting School in Shanghai. Likely topic, given the setting: architecture as velocity.
—July, 2009
Tokyo
CANCELLED 29.06.09: Owing to scheduling conflicts back at the AA, I’ve had to cancel my trip to Tokyo to participate in this summer’s conference on architectural education. Best wishes to everyone there for a successful event, which has been organised by UCLA’s Hitoshi Abe and Tokyo University.
—July 10, 2009
Stadelschule, Frankfurt
Brett delivers the 2009 Dean’s Honorary Lecture at the Stadelschule, in Frankfurt. ‘Back-end Realities’ will present the infrastructural realities of today’s distributed and collaborative learning and design cultures, and they ways they provoke–if not overthrow–the bias of singularity and signature architectural styles in modern architectural education.
—July 9, 2009
Stuttgart
My lecture ‘Ambient architectural knowledge: Learning across networks’ coincides with the inauguration of Professor Achim Menges, at the Institute for Computational Architecture, at Stuttgart University.
Frei Otto Interview
Stuttgart
July, 2009
Upcoming: A day with one of the world’s architectural giants: Frei Otto, in his hometown near Stuttgart, Germany. An interview and discussion with Frei on the legacy of computational approaches to architectural and urban form.
—July 7, 2009
Bauhaus Dessau
‘Experimental Archietectures’ will present a modern and contemporary history of architectural learning, spanning from Gropius’ theft of Van de Velde’s invention of the modern archtiectural school, to the AA’s reverse-engineering of Thomas Edison’s research and development labs in Menlo Park.
—July 3, 2009
Bedford Square
‘The Urgency of Neighbourhoods’ is the theme of my speech at the 2009 AA Diploma-giving ceremony, held in Bedford Square.
London
Dubai Provocation
12 June, 2009
A short presentation at the Aga Khan University, in London (Bedford Square–across from the AA), as part of this afternoon’s roundtable discussion ‘Re-Considering Dubai’. Dubai is the Rorshach Test of contemporary architecture and urbanism: a place architects love or hate; promote or deny. In an era where strong opininions are rare, Dubai is, momentarily, a […]
Reading OMA
Rotterdam
9 June, 2009
An afternoon with Rem Koolhaas and his collaborators, researching the books of OMA.