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22_10_08 “Speculations on” Neil M. Denari If the contemporary marketplaces of global life are conventionally thought to be limited by the minimization of risks of all kinds (cultural, economic, social, etc), and if architecture labors under this duress as a medium whose expense, weight, and intended permanence make it the most risk averse medium of all, then questions are raised as to how the attributes (new formalisms, new experiences, unwanted functions, etc) of an experimental architecture can redefine both the logic of capital and also the logic of its own system of production. Speculations On explores on the one hand the emergence of NMDA’s building practice, and on the other, the continuing trajectory of cultural analysis that the office is known for. Image caption: FLOUROSCAPE© Artificial light, now more than ever considered to be a building material on par with concrete and steel, is our environment\'s most malleable medium, capable of being projected, deflected, colorized, and animated, just to name a few ways in which light may be manipulated in a constructed environment.

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07_10_08 “Architectural + Urban Evolutions” Douglas Garofalo Douglas Garofalo has established an internationally renowned practice in Chicago that produces architectural work through buildings, projects, research and teaching. The work of Garofalo Architects has been widely recognized, through commissions, awards, publications, and lectures for innovative and creative approaches to the art of building. He is working in varyscale and location, extending conventional design practice by taking full advantage of the capacity of electronic media. Among many notable projects, the firm has completed the new Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and was a collaborator on the award-winning Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, a project that gained international notoriety as the first building truly conceived and executed with digital media, and because it represents an alternative solution to adaptive reuse. Garofalo is currently a full Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture. In 2001 Garofalo was selected for the “Emerging Voices” program at the Architectural League of New York, was featured as “The New Vanguaurd” for Architectural Record, and had speculative work included in the “Folds, Blobs and Boxes” exhibit at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. In 1995 he won the AIA Chicago Young Architect Award. Image caption: GREEN BAY HOUSE Project consists of a series of additions and modifications to an existing wood frame structure on a steeply sloping, wooded site that offers panoramic views of the bay. The strategy of placement of these interventions are driven by clients \'interest in horticulture, bird-watching, and small scale electric slot car racing.

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Masterplanning Futures Lucy Bullivant While spatial masterplans for cities historically set their physical structure and form, today’s masterplanners attempt to bring about on a more holistic basis the physical, social and economic revival of urban centres or districts. Their work is optimally part of a participatory, multidisciplinary process, and counteracts laissez-faire attitudes towards planning with various forms of urban identity management. For some planners, strengthening social equality of citizens is central to this process, while in other cases differentiating a ‘must visit’ destination and diversifying land uses is of highest priority. Whether top down or more bottom-up in attitude, masterplanners are more likely nowadays not to prescribe a rigid blueprint, but instead aim to incubate the future. Lucy Bullivant is an architectural curator, author and critic. The author of many books including Anglo Files: UK architecture’s rising generation (Thames & Hudson, 2005), Responsive Environments: architecture, art and design, V&A Contemporary, 2006) and 4dsocial: Interactive Spatial Environments (AD/Wiley, 2007), she has curated numerous exhibitions including Space Invaders (2001, British Council), Kid size: the material world of childhood (1997, Vitra Design Museum) and The near and the far, fixed and in flux (1996, XIX Triennale di Milano) and conferences such as Softspace (Tate Modern, 2007). She writes for The Financial Times, Domus, The Plan, a+u, Harvard Design Magazine and Indesign, and is preparing her next book on masterplanning and two new exhibitions in London. One explores the revalorisation of landscape design for public spaces in the UK; the other, new responsive architecture. Image caption: Rafael Viñoly Architects: aerial view of his masterplan for Battersea Power Station, London, a scheme announced in June 2008 that reinvents the site - the largest of its kind in the city - with a mix of uses and a new-build, green energy ‘Eco-Dome’.

R.E. Somol is Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and member of the Research Board of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. An internationally recognized design theorist, Somol was most previously Professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, and taught design and theory at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1997-2005. Somol is the editor of Autonomy and Ideology (Monacelli Press, 1997) and has served on the editorial boards of Any and Log. His writings have appeared in publications ranging from Assemblage to Wired, and will appear in his collection of essays, Nothing to Declare, forthcoming from ANY Books and the MIT Press. “Whatever”

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It has been 15 years since the creation of FERRER Architects. Its founder, José Angel Ferrer, born in Almería, Spain in 1966, graduated from the University of Sevilla School of Architecture in 1993. Having graduated an architect, he opened a studio in Almería, where he proceeded to carry out numerous projects for housing and other facilities, mainly in Andalusia, but both in and out of Spain as well. His interest and dedication to architecture are manifested in the form of numerous articles he has had published in the press and magazines; as well as in his participation as a professor and speaker in courses, university master’s programmes and conferences. Mr. Ferrer also belongs to several important associations and foundations for the promotion of architecture, in which he has even held office; as was the case of his tenure as Secretary for the Architects Association of Almería. Presently, he is finishing his doctorate’s thesis on the museums of Rafael Moneo. Standing out among Mr. Ferrer’s most recent works are: the Sports Hall for the XXV Mediterranean Games in 2005, which held the rhythmic gymnastics and volleyball competitions during those games; the buildings for Andalusian Radio and Television (RTVA) in the cities of Almería, Granada and Cádiz; the restoration of “the largest Spanish Civil War Shelters”; secondary school buildings; social centres and, most recently of all, the restoration of an important part of Almería’s cultural heritage – the mineral pier, or so-called “Cable Inglés”. All of the aforementioned projects were first prize winners in competitions.

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Josep Lluís Mateo Architect from 1974, and Doctor of Architecture (1994) \"cum Laude\" by the Escola Tècnica Superior d\'Arquitectura de Barcelona (Spain). Was editor-in-chief of the magazine Quaderns d\'Arquitectura i Urbanisme during the period 1981-1990. During that time, the magazine received the following awards: ACCA, Laus, Ciutat de Barcelona and UIA. Mateo combines professional and academic activities. Since October 2002 he is Professor at the Federal Politechnic School in Zurich (ETH) and he has been Guest Professor in a number of European and American Institutions. MAP Architects Created in 1991 in Barcelona, MAP Architects has been under the leadership of his principal Josep Lluís Mateo and his partner Marta Cervelló, since 1995. Local Projects Contemporary architectural practice seems trying to connect quality with exoticism. Globalization, in some extend and for many practices seems an alibi not to show a clear marginality. Too many Asian dreams transformed into nightmare. My talk is going to be connected to our local projects, discussing strategies and forms. The (g)local culture.

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Ferda Kolatan is a co-founder of su11 architecture+design in New York City. He was the recipient of the Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price from Columbia University. His firm received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for ‘Best New Designer’ in 2001. In 2006 su11 was a finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov Price and in 2007 they were chosen finalists for the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition. His work has been published nationally and internationally including Archilab’s Futurehouse, Space, Monitor, L’Arca, Arch+, New New York, PreFAb Modern, Digital Real, The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, AD, Dwell, Le Monde, NY Times, LA Times and Washington Post and exhibited in venues such as the Walker Art Center, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Vitra Design Museum, Archilab Orleans, Documenta X, Art Basel and Carnegie Museum of Art. Ferda Kolatan is currently a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Adjuct Professor at Pratt Institute in New York. He also is a Senior Researcher for the NSO (Nonlinear Systems Organization) headed by Cecil Balmond at Penn Design.

Alejandro Echeverri (Medellín, 1962), architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) of Medellín, 1987, he realized studies for his doctorate in urbanism in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) 1998-2000. Alejandro has been a professor and director of the Study Group in Architecture in the UPB 2001-2003 and invited Professor of Urbanism in ETSAB in 1999. His work has earned the National Architectural Award, Fernando Martínez Sanabria, given by the Colombian Architectural Association in 1996 and he has had a Mention of Honor in the X Panamerican Biennial of Architecture in Quito in 1996. He has won numerous national architectural and urbanism contests, the last one the First Prize in \"El Concurso Nacional para el Ordenamiento de la Cuenca del Rio Aburrá y El Parque Tres Aguas”, in Caldas, Antioquia, Colombia in 2006. He has been jury of various national and International contests, among them the XVIII National Biennial of Architecture of the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos in the categories of Architectural Project and Urban Project in 2002. He has given conferences both nationally and internationally and is currently a private consultant in Architecture, Urbanism and Territorial Planning for various cities in Colombia. He was the Director of Urban Projects for the Municipality of Medellín from 2005 to 2007, and was the General Manager of the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (EDU), of the Municipality of Medellín, from 2004 to 2005, both under the administration of former Major Sergio Fajardo

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Studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM (DiplArch, 2002 with honours). Tutor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, UEM (Architectural Projects Design since 2005), at the Universidad de Alicante (MS Arquitecturas Complejas / Tecnologías Complejas since 2006), at the Universidad Camilo José Cela, UCJC (Architectural Projects Design, 2005), at the Fundación Mies van der Rohe (2004) and assistant tutor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM (Architectural Projects Design 01/03). Currently developing PHD research. Founder of the collective UHF – Association for contemporary investigation. Co-director of the publication UHF since 1998. Member of Palimpsestos - Aesthetics and politics Investigations Group. Co-founder of the group [Inter]section of Philosophy and Architecture. Has taken part in numerous international workshops, courses and congresses. Has lectured in several universities and institutions (CIVA Centre International pour la Ville -Brussels, IAAC -Barcelona, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana de Bogotá -Colombia, Universidad de Buenos Aires -Argentina, Museum of Modern Art of Medellín -Colombia, etc.). Editor of the magazine Transfer from 2002-2004. Has written in various magazines and books.