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IoA Sliver Lecture Wolf D. Prix

When will it finally stop lasting? The possibility of the impossible.

8pm, May 17th, 2010

Lichthof 2, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Wolf D. Prix, born in Vienna in 1942, is a cofounder of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. In 1993 he responded to a call as professor of the University of Applied Arts Vienna where he serves as vice-rector and head of the Institute for Architecture. Wolf D. Prix received numerous awards including the Great Austrian State Award, the nomination Officier de l’ordre des arts et des letters, the Gold Medal for merits to the federal state of Vienna, the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, RIBA Jencks Award as well as the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. As Design Principal of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU his architectural designs have been featured in many museums and collections worldwide including the solo retrospectives Construire le Ciel at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France (1992), the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at MoMA (1988), New York or COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Beyond the Blue at the Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art, Vienna (2007) and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2009).

Upcoming IoA Sliver Lecture

25.05.10, 7pm Daniel Bosia, Structural Engineer, ARUP, London

MELK_contemporary Lecture Series
Anton Falkeis “Megastructures”

April 29, 2 pm
Seminarraum B, DG

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Crossover 2009 is a winter semester design studio in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The studio is a collaboration between Gehry Technologies and students from the Institute’s three design studios: Studio Hadid, Studio Lynn and Studio Prix.

To get a good grasp of student works at Die Angewandte you can purchase the now.

For the prize of € 20,- it can be purchased
via architecture@uni-ak.ac.at

If you are a student at the Angewandte, you can purchase it in the three design studios for € 10,-.

Lecture Claudia Pasquero November 20, 2009

“The Making of Artificial Ecologies”

Lecture by Claudia Pasquero (AA London) November 20, 2009, 2pm Hörsaal 2

In an age of unprecedented interaction between the natural and the
artificial realms we are confronted with the necessity to develop
instruments of transformation equipped with an embedded capacity of constant adaptation and self evaluation. As nature is becoming more and more hybridized with embedded artificiality, the ethical paradigm of natural conservation is progressively losing its value and needs to be replaced with more adaptive mechanisms of management and direct evaluation of the effects of human transformation of natural ecosystems; we call this mechanism ecoMachines.

ecoMachines provide a material and operational framework to deal with change and transformation, the two main defining qualities of our new understanding of urban ecology; moreover they support interaction between heterogeneous systems, such as social, infrastructural, architectural and environmental ones; they allow us to sense, register and manipulate in our daily life the unfolding processes defining our cities, our houses and our artificial environments.
ecoMachines turns us all into ecologists in the most operational sense of the term.

Claudia Pasquero graduated from Turin Polytechnic in 2000. Claudia is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio (www.ecoLogicStudio.com) with which she has recently completed a public library in Cirie’ (Turin). She took part to the London and Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006 with an installation called STEM and is co-direcotr of Fibrous Structures Project. Claudia has been teaching and lecturing internationally including East London University, Turin Polytechnic, The Kingston University (London), UDLA (Puebla, Mexico City), IAAC (Barcelona), ITU (Istanbul), Bilgi University (Istanbul) and others; she is currently Unit Master of Inter10 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London

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