Sanford Kwinter

Theory Session with Sanford Kwinter at Urban Strategies Studio.
October 29th, 2013

Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter 

Theory Session

Sanford Kwinter is Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a writer and editor who holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

He has taught at MIT, Columbia and Rice universities as well as at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, the Architectural Association in London, and the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He was cofounder and editor of the journal ZONE and Zone Books for 20 years. He has written widely on philosophical issues of design, architecture and urbanism, science and technology and was an editorial member of the ANY conferences and publications in the 1990s as well as of the journal Assemblage. He is the author of over a hundred and fifty articles in a dozen languages. His books include Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (MIT Press, 2001), Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture (Actar, 2008) and Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium and the forthcoming Soft Systems on the life sciences and and their impact on design. He writes frequently on the work of young and emerging practitioners in the nascent and transdisciplinary field of experimental spatial practice. He most recently curated a Harvard University-wide exhibition of art, design and the public domain entitled "The Divine Comedy." He is currently at work on a book on paleo-ecology and the origins of form.

Martin Mostböck

   Martin Mostböck lectured at Urban Strategies Studio.
   October 24th, 2013

Martin Mostböck

Thursday, 24 Oct, 6pm
Studio Lecture
Martin Mostböck: Architect & Designer
Design and production techniques in different scales: Furniture, Interior, Urban Block.

David Ruy

  

David Ruy lectured at Urban Strategies Studio.
October 18th, 2013

OPEN LECTURE DAVID RUY

David Ruy

With Regard to the Real

Friday, 18 October 2013, 7 pm
Urban Strategies Studio

David Ruy is an architect and theorist. David received his MArch degree from Columbia University and his BA degree from St. John’s College where he studied philosophy and mathematics. David is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Institute. David Ruy and Karel Klein are the principals of Ruy Klein in New York. Examining contemporary design problems at the intersection of architecture, nature, and technology, Ruy Klein has been the recipient of numerous awards recognizing the firm as one of the leading experimental practices in architecture today.

http://www.ruyklein.com

RHINO-DAY, October 16th

RHINO-DAY, October 16th

URBAN TECHNIQUE teaching assistant Alexander Karaivanov is representing Urban Strategies at this year's RHINO-DAY, October 16th, in Graz/Austria!