My AA 3rd Year History & Theory Seminar kicks off during Week 2 in Spring Term 2008. The course, titled ‘Architectural Knowledge as Projects’, surveys the way in which projects structure the serial forms of architectural expertise, experience, and knowledge.
—AA Seminar
bOMA Sessions 5-7
Weeks 5-7 in my autumn AA HTS Seminar, on the books of OMA, presented three successive decades of ‘paper space’ by the office: the 70s (Delirious New York), 90s (SMLXL), and the 00’s (Content and the recent AlManak). Research during the term will be incorporated in next year’s planned AA exhibition, titled bOMA. Week 8 […]
—London
‘Misappropriating Madelon’
‘The Misapporpriations of Madelon Vriesendorp’ is off to press. An introduction to a retrospective monograph on the artist’s 30-plus year career is launched at the AA on January 11, 2008 at the opening of her AA Exhibition.
Reading Now:
‘The Wealth of Networks’
On Brett’s Bookshelf
Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks is influenced by Lawrence Lessig’s jursiprudence and work on creative commons and networked forms of cultural production. An in-depth economics lesson on network life. Hard-core.
—14 March, 2008
Berlin
At the Aedes Gallery, to celebrate the opening of the AA’s just-closed ‘The World of Madelon Vriesendorp’ in Berlin.
—5 March, 2008`
Munich
At BMW Welt, in Munich, for a Lecture at the 2008 SmartGeometry Conference, on the topic of new geometry and digital design tools.
Reading Now:
‘Process’
On Brett’s Bookshelf
AA Diploma Projects by Jean Taek Park, Dae Song Lee, MinSeok Kim, Ill Sam Park and Myung Ho Lee have been published together in a 405-page monograph titled ‘Process’, published by Spacetime (Seoul).
—Spain
‘AN_D’s Deplo Introduction’
I just sent off a short introduction to ‘AN_D’s Deplo: Wrapping Space, Wear-able Architecture’, a Preface to Arquitecturas Desechables/Emergency Deployable, published in Spring 2008 (Spain). AN_D was one of the last DRL teams I had an opportunity to work with in the studio a couple of years ago, and the book is interesting for having […]
—21 February, 2008
Ankera
POSTPONED: A lecture at 12.00pm at the Architecture School in Ankera, Turkey. ‘Prototyping vs. Type: Open Plans and Closed Patterns’. <we will find a new date soon>
—19 February, 2008
London
Brett speaks at the Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar, titled ‘The UK’s Creative Economy’. Talks by Will Hutton and the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, UK Minister of Education with UK Culture leaders, and an audience from Whitehall and more than 100 members of both Houses of Parliament.