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| Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation >> Dean Mark Wigley Faculty: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. and Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. Melissa Cowley Wolf, Associate Director, Alumni Relations Benjamin Prosky, Director of Special Events Phillip Anzalone, Technical Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory Jill Fehrenbacher, Founder of Inhabitat.com GSAPP EVENT - OCT. 20th-25th, 2008 Ecogram: The Sustainability Question Ecogram is the first full-scale conference at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation that calls upon a wide breadth of scholars and professionals to address the intersecting issues of ecology and sustainable design, planning and development. Our main objective is to consider how we may begin introducing "sustainability" to architectural curricula as well as how we may interrogate it as a concept. Even as "green" is everywhere (green architecture, green design, green lifestyle, green businesses, greenwashing, etc.), the concepts of sustainability and ecological design are still marginal both in architectural education and in architectural discourse at large. We aim to avoid a narrow framing of sustainability as a purely technical or technocratic issue, and to consider it as part of a nexus of larger social, cultural, economic and political forces that need to be addressed in order to respond to what is clearly the major challenge of the 21st century, namely climate change and its consequences. The conference will offer a confluence of approaches, as contributions will range from architects and engineers to scientists, environmental historians, journalists and educators. That buildings and cities are significant polluters and catalysts of climate change is beyond question. Buildings and the building industry currently contribute on average at least 40-50% of greenhouse gases worldwide. As more than half of the world's population will live in cities by the end of 2008, there is no question that cities will have to become more sustainable, providing better public amenities and be designed in ways that do not place greater stress on the environment. We are interested in opening up the question of sustainability to other kinds of investigations and to ask what are the imaginative, sophisticated approaches to sustainable design? How can we educate architects about ecology? Is it necessary? Does sustainability stand in opposition to architecture as an instrument of development? Is “sustainable development” an oxymoron? What is the role of activism in research? Can we combine innovation with a social agenda? Is it even possible? How can the values of environmentalism and sustainability be integrated into the ways in which architects think? Can these values provide creative opportunities, and even formal rigor rather than limitation? PROGRAM 2008: MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 PANEL: ECO-CRAFT: Design, Context + Innovation Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Michelle Addington >> - Professor, Yale School of Architecture Dickson D. Despommier >> - Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, Columbia University Cameron Sinclair >> - Architecture for Humanity Matthias Schuler >> - Founder and Director of Transsolar Moderators: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. >> - Terreform 1; Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP & Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. >> - Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP Exhibition at the Ross Gallery: Ecology Design Synergy, Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar Climate Engineering WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 KEYNOTE LECTURE Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Daniel Wood and Amale Andraos >> WORK Architecture Company, New York FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 KEYNOTE LECTURE Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 6:30 PM Kenneth Frampton Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP ALUMNI WEEKEND 2008 AVERY HALL SOCIETY LEADERS DINNER 8:00 PM Special Event for the Leaders and Partners of The Avery Hall Society SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 ALUMNI WEEKEND 2008 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST Brownie's Cafe, Avery Hall 10:00 AM WELCOME Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 10:30 AM Mark Wigley, Dean of GSAPP INTRODUCTION Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D. (MsAAD 1996) - Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP Mitchell Joachim (M.Arch 1997) - Adjunct Professor of Architecture, GSAPP PANEL: ECO-SEARCH: Research, Culture + Policy Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 11:00 AM Kyong Park >> - Founder, International Center for Urban Ecology, co-curator, Project Shrinking Cities Sarah Haga >> - Director, Owner's Representative Studio, Jonathan Rose Companies Nilda Mesa >> - Assistant Vice President, Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University Jorge Otero-Pailos >> - Professor of Historic Preservation, GSAPP Smita Srinivas >> - Assistant Professor of Urban Planning; Director, Technological Change Lab, GSAPP Moderated by Elliott Sclar - Professor of Urban Planning, GSAPP LUNCH TOURS, TALK, EXHIBITION 12:30 - 2:30 PM PANEL: ECO-ED: Education, Practice + Ecology Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 2:30 PM SHoP Architects, P.C. >> Bruce Lindsey >> - Dean, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, Washington University Kate Orff >> - Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, GSAPP; Principal, SCAPE John Peterson >> - Founder, Public Architecture Zoka Zola >> - Principal, Zoka Zola architecture + urban design, Chicago Moderated by Mark Wigley - Dean of GSAPP ________________________________________________________________________________ Event Co-Directors: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, BPS SUNY at Buffalo w/ honors. He is Partner at the design organization Terrefuge. He is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, Michael Sorkin Studio, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. He is the winner of the Moshe Safdie and Assoc. Research Fellow Award, and Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York. Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities Group. His project, Fab Tree Hab, is on display at the MoMA Home Delivery exhibition. Ioanna Theocharopoulou, architect and architectural historian, Ph.D. Columbia University, History & Theory of Architecture, MSAAD Columbia University, and AA Diploma, London, UK. She teaches at Columbia University, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and at Parsons The New School for Design. Her work focuses on urbanization and informal development as well as the history/ theory of sustainable design. CONTACT/ INFO: info@ecogram.org The weekend conference and free weekday lectures are open to the public with priority seating for GSAPP Alumni. On Saturday a fee for the entire day is $25 -includes meals. Reduced student rates for non-GSAPP members are available. Please visit www.arch.columbia.edu/alumniweekend for details. For more information, please call 212.854.9543. Ecogram is generously supported by Consolidated Edison Company of New York. |
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| IRON DESIGNER
04.23.09 7:00PM - 9:00PM Dumbo, Brooklyn, within Spacebuster - Meet at the Pearl Street Triangle |
| Thursday, April 23, 7 pm: IRON DESIGNER
Please join Studio-X, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Raumlabor, Dumbo Improvement District and Inhabitat: IRON DESIGNER is a real-time, ecologically based competition based on "Iron Chef" and held within Spacebuster by Raumlabor. Who: Teams of Third-Year M.Arch students from: Columbia University GSAPP Parsons The New School for Design City College of New York Pratt Institute Meet at the Pearl Street Triangle, Dumbo, Brooklyn, inside Spacebuster Winning team will be featured on Inhabitat.com Jurors include: Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture), Raumlabor, Olivia Chen (Inhabitat), Kate Kerrigan (Dumbo Improvement District), Richard Plunz, Ben Prosky and Sarah Williams (Columbia GSAPP), Meredith Tenhoor and Deb Johnson (Pratt Institute), Joel Towers (Parsons), Rafael Magrou (architecture critic, Paris), Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (workAC), William Menking (The Architect's Newspaper), and others to be announced. Sponsored by Studio-X/Columbia University GSAPP, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Raumlabor, Dumbo Improvement District and Inhabitat. Organized by Mitchell Joachim, Ioanna Theocharopoulou and Gavin Browning as a continuation of "ECOGRAM: The Sustainability Question." |
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| Spacebuster by Raumlabor
(Above: Kitchen Monument by Raumlaborberlin with Plastique Fantastique, Duisburg, Germany 2006, photo by Marco Canevacci) |