Constructing Logics
The drive for sustainability in the face of our climate crisis has brought architecture closer to constructive agendas as a means of defining a disciplinary language. While previous generations have foregrounded theoretical or geometrical pursuits as vehicles for architectural experimentation, the current era, finding itself confronted with decades of laissez-faire extraction and consumption, has turned to a more direct understanding of architecture as material constructs with finite resources and specific social, economic, and climatic contexts. The intellectual and the physical have realigned to prioritize material performance and expression not only as means of addressing ecological responsibilities but also as grounds for experimentation, putting the spotlight on assemblages that we have long taken for granted. Construction isn’t simply the translation of ideas into physical form but is once again considered as the catalyst for a new design attitude where material compositions are exposed, interrogated, and celebrated.
BIO:
Jeannette Kuo is co-founding partner of KARAMUK KUO based in Zurich and Professor of Architecture and Construction at TU Munich. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley, a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Advanced Studies from ETH Zurich. In 2006, she was the recipient of the competitive Maybeck Teaching Fellowship at UC Berkeley. Since then, she has taught at MIT, EPF Lausanne, and Harvard GSD. In 2023, she was the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University. Publications include A-Typical Plan (2013) and Space of Production (2015).
Established in 2010 with Ünal Karamuk, the work of KARAMUK KUO focuses on the intersection of spatial concepts with constructive thinking to approach architecture from its most fundamental sources. The office works on projects of a range of scales, from multi-family housing to complex institutional projects and have been published in numerous international journals including Archithese, Werk, Bau + Wohnen, Domus, Casabella, and Architectural Review. In 2018 they were featured in a monograph by El Croquis.
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- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli
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- Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli