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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by M. Allen
DTSTART:20210427T154500
DTEND:20210427T163000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Allen\n15:45 – 16:30 – Dr M. Allen\nVisiting Assis
 tant Professor at Pratt Institute\, USA\n\nWho’s Afraid of Heaps? Data O
 verload and the History of Architecture\n\nWe face twin crises: climate ch
 ange and the digitization of our social lives. One factor linking these tw
 o is accumulation. Just as consumer objects and cast-off detritus pile up 
 in our homes and in our oceans\, so too does data pile up in our archives 
 and on our servers. What should architects do? Digital architecture has no
 t only been about the creation of futuristic buildings – it has also bee
 n about learning how to work effectively with heaps of data. In this lectu
 re\, Dr. Matthew Allen will outline a history of computation in the field 
 of architecture focusing on the problem of data overload. Allen will prese
 nt the pioneering work of the Australian architect and educator William J.
  Mitchell between 1960 and 1990. The questions raised by Mitchell’s work
  in this early era of computation are still relevant today: How can archit
 ecture become both a data-driven art and a data-driven science? Should the
  large technical systems that structure the modern world become the subjec
 ts of design? Will the role of architectural history change with the world
 ’s data at our fingertips? Allen will argue that a new history of the di
 gital turn will help architecture to engage with the crises of the decades
  to come.\n\n\nShort bio:\nDr. Matthew Allen is a Visiting Assistant Profe
 ssor at Pratt Institute in New York who researches the history and theory 
 of architecture\, computation\, and aesthetics as they pertain to contempo
 rary ecological and social issues. Allen is the author of the forthcoming 
 book\, Architecture becomes Programming: Modernism and the Computer\, 1960
 -1990\, as well as essays in venues such as Log\, e-flux\, Domus\, and the
  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Allen holds a PhD and
  a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. His research has
  been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Social Sciences a
 nd Humanities Research Council\, the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, an
 d other institutions. Allen has worked for MOS\, Preston Scott Cohen\, and
  other firms at the leading edge of contemporary architectural practice.\n
  
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81455143224
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