"Organicités / Thickness" Lecture Series: Inlucent Interfaces / Inhabitable Interfaces
Event details
| Date | 09.04.2009 |
| Hour | 17:00 |
| Speaker | Marcos Cruz |
| Location |
AAC132
|
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Marcos Cruz lives and works in London. He is a Lecturer / Studio Master
of Unit 20 at the Bartlett School of Architecture and a Senior Lecturer
/ Studio Master of DS10 at the University of Westminster. Cruz studied
at the ESAP/Porto and ETSAB/Barcelona, before moving to London where he
gained a master’s degree at the Bartlett in 1999 and a doctoral degree
in 2007. His work, which focuses on a contemporary discussion about the
body in architecture and the emergence of what he considers Inhabitable
Interfaces, won the RIBA President’s Research Award for Outstanding PhD
Thesis in 2008. Back in 2000 he was part of the design team for the
Kunsthaus Graz competition with Peter Cook and Colin Fournier (first
prize). In the same year, Cruz founded with his partner Marjan Colletti
the office marcosandmarjan, which combines the practice and teaching of
architecture, along with experimental design research. Their work has
been extensively published and exhibited, including the Actions re Form
exhibitions in Coimbra and Munich in 2002, the São Paulo Biennial in
2003, the participation in the Metaflux exhibition at the Venice
Biennale in 2004 and the solo exhibition Interfaces/Intrafaces at the
iCP Hamburg in 2005/06. Apart from numerous installations, they built
two pavilions and the general layout for the 75th Lisbon Book Fair in
Portugal and worked on a large entertainment complex in Beijing, which
they won as part of an invited competition in 2004. Recently, their
project was a runner-up for the invited competition of a sales centre
in Cairo. Cruz is author of the publication Unpredictable Flesh
(Mimesis, 2004) and marcosandmarjan – Interfaces/Intrafaces
(SpringerWienNewYork, 2005), as well as an editor of Unit 20
(University of Valencia/ACTAR, 2002) and AD – Neoplasmatic Design (John
Wiley & Sons, 2008).
Practical information
- General public
- Free