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.