CONVIVIUM + PIDGIN

Convivium is pleased to announce the first gathering of the spring semester 2011.

When: 6:30 PM, February 5th

Where: Miller Heller, 122 Eddy Street

Meet the editors of Princeton's Graduate student publication, Pidgin:

Matthew Clarke
Brandon Clifford
Margo Handwerker
Ang Li
Matthew Storrie

The meeting will also feature:

Caroline O'Donnell, founding member and editor of Pidgin
Melissa Constantine & Kyle Jenkins, co-founders of Convivium

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

AMBIGUITY IN ARCHITECTURE

When: 6:30 PM, November 19th

Where: Great Room of Llenroc, 100 Cornell Avenue

DESIGN/NONDESIGN

When: 6:30 PM November 12th

Where: Miller Heller, 122 Eddy Street

Grassroots Modernism

Sophie Hochhäusl

Hokey Pokey Architecture

Tiffany Peterson

Architecture by Non-Architects

Bradley Kinsey

Architects without Architecture

Margot Lystra

Survival as Program

Rachel Kaplan and Maria Castro

Experiential vs. Conceptual Architecture: Looking at the Peters

Anh Tran and Julia Gamolina

The forthcoming Convivium will be focusing on discussions inspired by various interpretations of the subject of Design/Nondesign. The ambiguity in topic generates an abundance of questions and ideas, particularly among architects. A greater investigation into a few of these questions will be presented by individuals, with the goal of provoking conversation.

DESIGN/NONDESIGN

Grassroots Modernism Reading

“Wohnen Lernen: Learning how to Live 1919 - 1923" by Eve Blau

DIGITAL_ANALOG : a conversation on modes of architectural production and thinking

Digital Interviews from Ashley Reed on Vimeo.

Digital Interviews: Joerg Gleiter, Mario Carpo, and Kevin Pratt

By Shao Vivian Chen with Ashley Reed, Sophie Hochhausl, and Anthony Morin

DIGITAL_ANALOG : a conversation on modes of architectural production and thinking

When: 5:30 PM October 29

Where: The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Digital Interviews
A video by Vivian Chen and Ashley Reed

The Sketchbook Problem
A conversation led by Jonathan Ruiz

Digital Delusion: The Sensory Limitations of the Digital in Architecture and Engineering
A conversation led by Youngjin Yi

The Illusion of Novelty: The Predicament of Abstractions
A conversation led by John Lura

To be followed by an analog discussion by the Cornell faculty and graduate students

After Hour: 9:00PM
Where: Stella's, 403 College Avenue

'The Sketch Book Problem' ReadingsTo sketch or not to sketch? That is the question By Zafer Bilda, John S. Gero, and Terry Purcell

Design ideation: the conceptual sketch in the digital age By Ben Johnson

Seeing and discovering: how do student designers reinterpret sketches and digital marks during graphic design ideation? By Catherine Stones and Tom Cassidy

The Illusion of Novelty: The Predicament of Abstraction ReadingsSemiology and the urban By Roland Barthes

Plato and the simulacrum By Gilles Deleuze

The authenticity of difference: architecture and the crisis of reality By Peter Eisenman

The end of the classical: the end of the beginning, the end of the end By Peter Eisenman

Architecture's expanded field: finding inspiration in jellyfish and geopolitics, architects today are working within radically new frames of reference By Anthony Vidler

Diagrams of diagrams: architectural abstraction and modern representation By Anthony Vidler

TEACHING ARCHITECTURE ~ LEARNING ARCHITECTURE: a conversation on pedagogy

In its first meeting for the academic year 2010/2011 the Convivium was dedicated to architecture and pedagogy.

A short film was produced by Julia Gamolina and Juan Carlos Artolozaga (M Arch 1, first year) investigating architecture pedagogy in the Cornell Graduate program vis-a-vis various undergraduate experiences.

Noah Ives (M Arch 1, 2nd year) gave a presentation on design methodologies, analyzing Peter Eisenman's City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela.

Armondo Rigau (M Arch 1, 2nd year) elaborated on the relationship between the Master and his student. His talk stood in reference to Hegel's treatise on the Master-Slave dialectic as discussed in Kojeve, Alexandre and Raymond Queneau's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit.

The question of ethics and architectural education was addressed by Aaron Gensler (M Arch 1, 1st year).

This informal discussion session lasted for more than an hour. At the end of the debate, the food was gone and the discussions were moved to another location. People discussed there until 2:00 am.