http://www.vimeo.com/9828738
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“The 3rd Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment, an annual invited lecture by an international figure whose work has significant implications for understanding and reconceiving the relationship between architecture and the environment, was delivered by Werner Sobek on December 2, 2009 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City.
Werner Sobek is the Mies van der Rohe Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and head of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart, where he studied architecture and structural engineering. As successor to architect Frei Otto and engineer Joerg Schlaich, Werner Sobek is an advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and engineering both in training and professional practice.
While the ILEK specializes in the research of new materials and new concepts for lightweight and adaptive structures, Werner Sobek’s office is one of the world’s leading engineering consultancies with offices in Stuttgart, Cairo, Dubai, Frankfurt, Khartoum, Moscow, and New York. The work of Werner Sobek is defined not only by its engineering and emphasis on sustainable systems but by a rigorous application of design. Founded in 1992, the studio’s emphasis lies on lightweight load-bearing structures, high-rise buildings, transparent facade systems, and special structures in steel, glass, titanium, textiles, and wood.”
……………………………………………….. The annual Franzen Lecture on Architecture and the Environment was created in honor of long-time League trustee Ulrich Franzen. The Franzen Lecture on Archiecture and the Environment is made possible by contributions from the Riggio Foundation, Juliana Terian Gilbert, and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.
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“Studio Banana TV interviews architect Carlos Arroyo, one of the most prominent young Spanish architects. He is based in Madrid, where he develops projects of a very varied nature with a special emphasis on sustainable development and research into new forms of housing. Interview realised with the sponsorship of the European University of Madrid.”
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Carlos Arroyo is a linguist by the Institute of Linguists, London (1990) and architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (1997). He is Professor at the University of Alcala de Henares and the Universidad Europea de Madrid and Member of the Europan Europe Scientific Committee since 2004. Carlos Arroyo has a studio in Madrid since 1997, where he develops projects of a very varied nature. These projects have a special emphasis on sustainable development and research into new forms of housing. Examples include:
* Cortijo de las Ventajas joint-ownership housing project in Granada: a combination of 2,500 m2 of co-housing with an agribusiness cooperative, and a mixed system of renewable energy production.
* “Ecobarrio” in Toledo: 60,000 m2 of housing including other compatible uses, developed with Eleonora Guidotti and Manuel Pérez Romero, upon winning the Europan Award.
* H↔H Project: a research project to determine the real demand for new forms of housing in Spain, conducted together with Eleonora Guidotti and the sociologist Virginia Godoy.
* Involvement in different projects to develop housing for specific needs: for youth, for the elderly (with shared services), and for extended families.
His projects have won international awards and prizes such as Europan (2001), EMVS award for residential innovation and sustainability (2006), and two Belgian Open Oproep competitions (2007 and 2008). Carlos Arroyo has participated in numerous exhibitions, notably the 8th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia. His work has appeared in publications such as El Croquis, Bauwelt, Bau, Arquitectura, AV, Circo, Fisuras and ON diseño. He has been a guest professor and lecturer at many universities and institutes, both in Spain and in the international arena. Interview realised with the sponsorship of the European University of Madrid. Special thanks to 24Studio.
Interview by Studio Banana TV.
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“Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater as a giant “theatrical machine” that reconfigures itself at the touch of a button.”
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“Joshua Prince-Ramus is best known as architect of the Seattle Central Library, already being hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary culture. Prince-Ramus was US Partner of Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture before founding his own firm, REX, in 2006.”
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http://www.vimeo.com/7473313
————————– David Benjamin, Natalie Jeremijenko, Deborah Richards, and Soo-in Yang
Introduction by Mark Shepard
Recorded October 16, 2009
Running time: 1:09:40
Presented as part of the public program series organized in conjunction with the Architectural League’s fall 2009 exhibition Toward the Sentient City.
David Benjamin, Natalie Jeremijenko, Deborah Richards, and Soo-in Yang talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings. “Amphibious Architecture,” their project for the League’s exhibition Toward the Sentient City, creates a public interface to water quality and aquatic life of urban rivers, and our interest therein.
BIOS David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang are Directors of The Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Natalie Jeremijenko is the Director of the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University
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