The Scripting of Time
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
Author Russell Banks and filmmaker Atom Egoyan discuss the excitement of using history as a subject for literature and film.
November 23
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Skyzoid Machines and Ecosophical Apparatuses
School of Architecture Lecture Series
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 : 6:00pm
University Park Campus
USC Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center
Master of conceptual architecture François Roche discusses the work of his Paris-based firm, R&Sie(n).
Roche, founder and principal of R&Sie(n), will discuss the organic, oppositional architectural projects of the practice, which are concerned with the bond between building, context and human relations. Roche will explain his concept of “spoiled climate’’ chameleon architecture, which links hybrids of the human body to the body of architecture by a re-scenarization on the rules of nature.
“Making with…” is Roche’s way of describing R&Sie(n)’s research into a critical experience of architecture through a mutation of contextual parameters. Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning and morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture, which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory. Experimental and inventive, the architecture of R&Sie(n) seeks to be profoundly critical — an architecture that is articulated as multiple narrative apparatuses and relationship strategy made of substances from each situation.
François Roche has taught at the Bartlett School in London; the Vienna University of Technology; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona; École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris; the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Columbia University in New York. He has lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
R&Sie(n)’s projects have been exhibited at Columbia University, New York, 1999-2000; the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2000; ICA, London, 2001; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004; the Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004; MAM/Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2005 and 2006; MIT’s Media Lab, Cambridge, 2006; the Tate Modern, London, 2006; the Orléans/ArchiLab International Architectural Conference, 1999, 2001 and 2003. R&Sie(n) was among those selected by France for the 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale.
François Roche holds the AC Martin Visiting Professorship in Architectural Design Chair. This endowment stands as a lasting tribute to the Martin architectural legacy, and to their outstanding leadership. The endowment funds a distinguished visiting faculty member whose teaching will instill the philosophical leadership of the various design disciplines of the architectural team and will help young students uphold the ideals of the master builder.
The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1, off of Exposition Boulevard.
“Making with…” is Roche’s way of describing R&Sie(n)’s research into a critical experience of architecture through a mutation of contextual parameters. Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning and morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture, which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory. Experimental and inventive, the architecture of R&Sie(n) seeks to be profoundly critical — an architecture that is articulated as multiple narrative apparatuses and relationship strategy made of substances from each situation.
François Roche has taught at the Bartlett School in London; the Vienna University of Technology; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona; École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris; the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and Columbia University in New York. He has lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
R&Sie(n)’s projects have been exhibited at Columbia University, New York, 1999-2000; the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2000; ICA, London, 2001; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004; the Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004; MAM/Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2005 and 2006; MIT’s Media Lab, Cambridge, 2006; the Tate Modern, London, 2006; the Orléans/ArchiLab International Architectural Conference, 1999, 2001 and 2003. R&Sie(n) was among those selected by France for the 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale.
François Roche holds the AC Martin Visiting Professorship in Architectural Design Chair. This endowment stands as a lasting tribute to the Martin architectural legacy, and to their outstanding leadership. The endowment funds a distinguished visiting faculty member whose teaching will instill the philosophical leadership of the various design disciplines of the architectural team and will help young students uphold the ideals of the master builder.
The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1, off of Exposition Boulevard.
Jane Ilger
(213) 740-2092