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Achim Menges

The Architecture Class presents:
'The Production of Appearance' - Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2010 Lecture

Achim Menges: Computational Form and material form: Architectural Phenotypes
Wednesday, 9 June, 19 clock, Aula

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Over the last few years, Achim Menges has emerged as a leading voice on the international scene in architecture on topics related to form-generation, computational design and 'performative' design strategies. At various institutions, he has led research that engages with the underlying material and technological structure of the design process to explore new avenues for architecture. The work has been disseminated in at impressive list of conferences, papers and books, including Hensel, M., Menges, A., Weinstock M.: Emergent Technologies and Design (Routledge, Oxford, 2010) and Hensel, M., Menges, A. (eds.): Form Follows Performance: The interaction of material, structure, environment (. Archplus No. 188, Archplus Verlag, Aachen, 2010). context

In SAC's current lecture series, 'The Production of Appearance,' he will speak about research and findings that Relates to architectural production in this technological and methodological.

Achim Menges is professor at Stuttgart University where he is the Director of the Institute for Computational Design. He is also a Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as well as the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association in London. Previously, he has taught at the AA School of Architecture as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program from 2002 to 2009, as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006 and, from 2005 to 2008 as Professor for Form Generation and Materialisation at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design.

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Ei Arakawa

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Ei Arakawa: A Performance Group: Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop) and Etc..
Thursday 10 June, 19 clock, Aula

The event will be held in English.

Ei Arakawa (b. 1977, Japan) almost always works in a group. Involving simple building materials, video, choreographed sequences and printed banners and posters, the performances he organizes the address Particular domains of identity - spectacular rock stages, U.S. alien status, Japanese historical avant-garde, Gay riots, and the administration of singularities artist. Yet, the group tries to leap / leak from these, continuously and temporarily. Ei Arakawa's exhibitions / performances have taken place at Performa07, New York; Yokohama Triennale, Japan; New Museum, New York; The Power Plant, Toronto; ICA, London; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.

Grand Openings (since 2005) is a performance collective that consists of five different commitments; a performance artist (Ei Arakawa); a painter/musician/writer (Jutta Koether); a gallerist/artist/singer (Emily Sundblad); a curator (Jay Sanders); and a composer (Stefan Tcherepnin); Their performances were shown in Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Bumbershoot 2008, Seattle; MUMOK, Vienna; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Nigata; and Performa05, New York. With the funding from Kunstzeitraum, Munich, Grand Openings is currently working on their upcoming book planned to be released from Koenig Books London in 2010/11.