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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. Iman Fayyad
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Iman Fayyad \nProf. Iman Fayyad\nAssistant Professor of
  Architecture\, Syracuse University\n\nTransient Geometries\n\nThe art his
 torian Ernst Gombrich reminds us that the two-dimensional image is ambiguo
 us. It represents infinite possibilities of three-dimensional configuratio
 ns. This lecture identifies a fundamental element of architectural thinkin
 g and practice—the intractable relationship between flatness and three-d
 imensional form—as one that has had profound and complicated effects on 
 the identity and practice of the discipline. Techniques of projective tran
 sformation—from orthography and stereography\, to surface development an
 d oblique distortions—challenge the capacity of the flat plane to map sp
 atial relationships. This lecture will present historical and contemporary
  methodologies that exhibit use of the flat plane as a motivator for form 
 production and venue for spatial imagination. Drawing from examples in car
 tography\, photography\, mathematics\, art\, and linguistics\, we explore 
 how geometric projection—a process that necessitates the selective obfus
 cation of information—becomes one of architecture’s most political act
 s\; it governs our cognitive and visual perception\, subjective experience
  and bodily movement\, material behavior\, and assembly processes. The lec
 ture will demonstrate examples of historical work and contemporary researc
 h projects that have contributed in their own ways to this relationship th
 rough a study of tectonics\, typology\, aesthetics\, material economy\, co
 nstruction practices\, and social and environmental equity. Projection is 
 a proactive agent in producing\, at once\, clarity and ambiguity\, conform
 ity and defiance\, and stability and transience\, in architectural form.\n
 \nShort bio:\nIman Fayyad is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Syr
 acuse University\, where she coordinates the first-year studio curriculum 
 and conducts research in computational geometry and design with a focus on
  tectonics\, construction\, and representation. Fayyad is founding directo
 r of project: if\, an award-winning practice that places architectural geo
 metry in dialogue with material economy\, visual perception\, and the poli
 tics of physical space and building practice. Her work has been published 
 and exhibited in venues including Nexus Network Journal (Architecture and 
 Mathematics)\, Technology | Architecture and Design\, Log\, PLOT\, Carnegi
 e Museum of Art\, and the Roca Gallery in London. Her work on zero-waste g
 eometric techniques has received recognition by the Architects' Newspaper 
 Best of Design Young Architects Prize\, the ACSA Faculty Design Award\, an
 d Architizer's Design For Good Award.\nPrior to Syracuse\, Fayyad served o
 n the faculty at Princeton University\, MIT\, and Harvard University\, whe
 re she was also the inaugural Irving Innovation Fellow. Fayyad holds a Bac
 helor of Science in Architecture from MIT and a Master in Architecture wit
 h Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, where she was t
 he recipient of the American Institute of Architects Certificate of Merit\
 , Faculty Design Award\, and the Araldo A. Cossutta Prize for Design Excel
 lence.\n\n\n 
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