ABOUT THIS LECTURE We seek to reclaim the term materialism—not as a symbol of empty consumerism, but as a meaningful practice: shaping our future through form and matter. For most of our history, life adapted to the material world around us. That changed the moment we discovered tools, technology, and architecture. With them, we gained […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE The presentation examines the contemporary Latin American landscape as a complex, time-based assemblage of economic, social, cultural, and ecological systems, shaped by multiple forms of violence ranging from urbanization, extraction, and inequality to planetary processes such as climate change. Rather than treating these conditions as static problems, the lecture frames the collision […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE National award-winning projects have something in common: not only are they designed to be sustainable and require zero-net energy once built, but they also respect and respond to the local community’s history and culture, as well as the Genius Loci. Further, they are designed while thinking about form and materials in creative […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE Architect Thomas Phifer will present the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, and the Wagner Park Pavilion, a key component of the South Battery Park Resiliency Project in Lower Manhattan. Located on nearly 300 acres of rolling grassland and woodlands just outside Washington, DC, Glenstone […]