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Recent Lectures & Events (Selected; 2008 - ‘02)

2008 (forthcoming) ‘The Split Personalities of Design’, AA Visiting School Workshop, Turin2008 Guest Critic, Hong Kong University Thesis Design Jury

2008 ‘Pushing Past Envelopes’ & ‘Ambient Urbanism’, New Zealand Society of Architects Annual Convention (Auckland, NZ)

2008 ‘Pavilions & Prototyping’ Roundtable Discussion Moderator, DRL Ten Pavilion, A

2008 Guest Critic, Emerson Design Studio, Cambridge University School of Architecture

2008 ‘Schools & Outer Space’, Interview with the Korean Broadcasting System (Television Interview), London

2008 ‘Components vs. Continuities: Unprincipled Parametrics’, 2008 SmartGeometry Conference (BMW Welt, Munich)

2008 ‘David’s Invisible Architecture’ Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, AA Lecture Hall

2008 ‘FOA’s Ornament’ Moderator, Farshid Moussavi Lecture, Tate Bankside Museum, London

2008 ‘Off-centre and Out-of-Bounds: Learning Architecture at 1 to 1’ Presentation and Round table Discussion, (’Fibrous Room’ Installation at Garanti Galeri, Istanbul)

2008 ‘Acceleration vs. Exaggeration: Projects, Personalities or Pedagogies in Architecture Today’ (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville)

2008 Guest Critic, Diploma Studios Diaz Alonso, Hadid, Lynn, Prix. Angewandte Academy (Vienna)

2008 ‘Learning from Dubai’ AA Visiting School Final Presentations & Discussions, The Third Line Gallery, Al Quoz (Dubai, UAE)

2008 ‘Ambient Formalism: Distributed Design and its In-Sensitivities’. Keynote Lecture, ‘Formalism Today’ Conference (Tel Aviv University)

2007 Guest Critic, Grammazio & Kohler Robotic Workshop Course, ETH Zurich

2007 ‘Designing Intelligence: Critical Creativity and Organisational Intelligence’, Instituto Empera School of Business, (Madrid)

2007 ‘Forgetting vs. Forgotten Schools: Architecture’s Dark Spaces’ (AA, London)

2007 ‘Schools as Information Spaces: New Architectural Pedagogies’, University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts (Eugene)

2007 ‘Strategic Futures’, UN Studio, Amsterdam

2007 ‘Compare and Contrast vs. Separated at Birth: Learning Architecture By Connecting the Dots’, City College of New York School of Architecture (New York)

2007 ‘Where Did London Go? (So Fast)’, Keynote Talk, ‘New Practices London Symposium & Exhibition’, Architecture Center AIA (New York)

2007 Interview with Richard Meier ‘Objects & Spaces’, London

2007 Interview with Rem Koolhaas ‘Architecture vs. Cities’, London

2007 Conversation with Anthony Vidler: ‘Political, Design & Environmental Spaces’ (AA, London)2007 ‘AA to Z: A New User’s Guide to the Architectural Association’ (AA, London)

2007 ‘Experimental Traditions & Architectural Futures’ (Lecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing)

2007 ‘The Invisible Studio’ (Lecture) and Guest Critic, ‘Superdensity Workshop’ (Tonji University, Shanghai)

2007 ‘Architecture as Urbanism: The Architectural Cultures of 21^st Century London, at ‘ACCT Presidential Commission on Architectural Culture & Construction Technology Conference (Seoul)

2007 ‘Type vs. Prototype’: Notes towards Architectural Thinking at 1:1’, IAAS (Barcelona)

2007 ‘Looking Up: Learning to Learn; Contemporary Architecture & Its Prototypes’, Istanbul Technical University, (Istanbul)

2007 ‘Seven (Obvious) Observations: Learning Architecture, or Thinking Across Networks’, John More University (Liverpool)

2006 ‘Rocking vs. Rolling: Rock Stars vs. Collaborative Performance’, in ‘Collective Intelligence in Design’, Conference at the Architectural Association (London)

2006 ‘Around & Around: A Conversation with Ben van Berkel’, Royal Institute of British Architects (London)

2006 ‘Place vs. Product Placement: BrandSpace 2006’, Stuttgart University (Stuttgart)

2006 ‘Adjaye’s Way: with Alison Brookes & Stefano Boeri, Architecture & Globalism’, Whitechapel Gallery (London)

2006 ‘Shaping Architecture: Magazines & Media: A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stefano Boeri, moderated by Shumon Basar’ (London)

2006 ‘Forget Strategy, Learn to Adapt’, A Talk and Panel Discussion with Eric Owen Moss & Vittorio Lampugnani, Southern California School of Architecture (Los Angeles)

2006 ‘On Again/Off Again: The Pedagogy of AA Units’, Cambridge University School of Architecture (Cambridge, UK)

2006 ‘Architecture as Anti-Thesis: Johnson, Venturi & Koolhaas vs. Google Images’, Columbia University (New York)

2006 ‘Why Not? Re-designing Architectural Knowledge’, Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK)

2006 ‘Embracing Experimentation: A Conversation with Toyo Ito’, at the Architectural Association (London)

2006 ‘Supercritical: A Conversation with Rem Koolhaas & Peter Eisenman (London)

2006 ‘Reverse Engineering: Design, Networks & Design, in ‘Design & Technologies’, Shankar University (Tel Aviv)

2005 ‘Ambience & Atmospheres: Architecture as Effect’, in Ambient & Augmented Environments, (London)

2005 ‘Design vs. Management’, commentary and conversation with SCIARC & Stanford Humanities Lab (Los Angeles)

2005 ‘Here & Now: Design as Forward Thinking’, UNAM University (Mexico City)

2005 ‘Young & Japanese: A New Japanese Generation’, Design Conference at Tokyo University (Tokyo)

2005 ‘Some Examples: The AA Machine’ lecture at the Maeda Corporation (Tokyo)

2005 ‘Architecture, Magazines & Politics: with Kaplicky, Boeri & Weizman’, Serpentine Gallery (London)

2005 September. Organizer, ‘Design as Research’ Symposium, RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects (London)

2005 April. ‘Thinking Design as Research, at ‘The Education of the Architect (Barcelona)

2004 Design Media Arts, UCLA (Los Angeles)

2004 Digital Design Conference (Ancona, IT)

2004 Princeton University School of Architecture (Princeton)

2004 oneDotZero, Institute for Contemporary Arts (London)

2004 Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design (Hong Kong)

2002 Universität für angewandte Kunst (Vienna)

2002 Space Condition: International Symposium in Experiment Architecture, Technical University Graz (Graz, Austria)

2002 European Architecture Students Workshop, (Vis, Croatia)

2002 ‘Architecture Interactivity’, Exhibition Catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Architecture (London)

2002 ‘Responsive Environments: 3 recent AADRL Projects’, ‘Game On’ Symposium, The Barbican Centre (London)

2002 ACSA Annual Convention; Symposium in Contemporary Architectural Theory & Design (New Orleans)

2002 ‘Re:Calculating: Architecture as Information Space’, Instituto Universtario di Architettura (IUAV) (Venice)
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