Event's IaaC - Landform building conference

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; Buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; Buildings that carve into the ground or Landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Some of today’ s most innovative buildings no longer occupy a given site but instead, construct the site itself. The conference landform building sets out to examine the many ways in which landscape effects are manifest in architecture today: Not as a cross- disciplinary phenomenon (architects working on the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems with in architecture itself.
Participants
Inaki Abalos - Abalos+sentkiewicz arquitectos, Vincente Guallart - guallart architects, Michael Jacob - université de geneve, Michael Maltzan - michael maltzan architects, Jesse Reiser / Nanako Umemoto - rur architects, Fabian Scheurer - design to Production, Nader Tehrani - office da, Marion Weiss / Michael Manfredi - weiss/manfredi architects, Mirko Zardini - canadian centre for architecture
Moderator and organizer
Stan Allen - dean, Princeton university school of architecture.