More pictures from the panel discussion

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen and Simon Herron
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Simon Herron, Peter Cook, Neil Spiller, David Garcia, Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner, Abelardo Gonzalez, Jorge Ayala, Léopold Lambert and Christer Malmström
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner and Abelardo Gonzalez
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Jorge Ayala and Léopold Lambert
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Peter Cook and Neil Spiller
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Simon Herron
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Thank you for a great symposium

Monika Jonson, Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Simon Herron, Peter Cook, Neil Spiller, David Garcia, Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner, Abelardo Gonzalez, Jorge Ayala, Léopold Lambert and Christer Malmström
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Peter Cook and Neil Spiller
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Master Degree Project Exhibition

On Friday September 14, after the lectures, there will be a Vernissage for the Master Degree Project Exhibition in the A-building foyer.

Caroline Lundin and Mats Håkansson will be exhibiting their projects produced at the Bartlett (London) and at the Royal Academy (Copenhagen) 

Posters ready

Finally the posters are printed.

Thank you for great help as always, Per-Henrik at Tryckeriet E-Huset

Sponsor | White

We are proud to present White as a financial sponsor for LAS*12.

Their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you


White is one of Swedens leading architectural studios, with 8 offices in Sweden and 3 in Denmark.

Their Malmö office has a lot of our former students as employees, and we are currently looking at different forms of future collaboration between White and Lund School of Architecture. This prosperous vision reflects their foundation theories of "a multidisciplinary culture of collaborating dissidents",
White is pioneering in architectural sustainability and they have these thoughts present in all phases of their projects.



Sponsor | FOJAB Arkitekter

We are proud to present FOJAB Arkitekter as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event for many years and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

Fojab Arkitekter are currently working on MAX IV, that will become the next landmark in Lund.
They won the MAX IV-competition together with Snöhetta, to design the worlds most powerfull syncrotron radiation facility, which is now being constructed.

 

Sponsor | ESS

We are proud to present ESS as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event before and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

The European Spallation Source (ESS) aims to be the brightest source of neutrons in the world for scientific research. By the end of this decade it will be generating long pulses of neutrons. These will be used in parallel experiments that will foster major advances from aging and health, materials technology for sustainable and renewable energy, to experiments in quantum physics, biomaterials and nano-science.
The ESS will be located in Lund, Sweden, co-hosted by both Sweden and Denmark and will be funded and operated by a partnership of 17 European countries. The ESS and our partners are currently engaged in a technical design review that will act as the blue-print for the construction of ESS to start in 2013 and to become operational in 2019.

 

Poster sent to print

Finally the poster is finished, sent to print and distributed to websites around the world

Simon Herron

 Simon Herron is one of our speakers at LAS*12

In February 1967 Architectural Design magazine published a special issue exploring the future “2000+”, the cover art a high contrast image originally produced for Cutler and Hammer an aerospace tech company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The image a headshot of Rocket Man, in uniform white, opaque reflective black visor, set against a brilliant red background.

Guest edited by John McHale, the issue opens with an edited address by Buckminster Fuller, confronting the difficulties predicting 35 years into the future with any degree of confidence or accuracy. Sandwiched between adverts for everyday building materials, RAWPLUGS, aluminium profiles, sectional doors, and the latest from Lea Valley Kitchens, were articles examining the latest in outer and inner space hardware with this seasons must have in Life Support System from General Dynamic to the ultimate in integrated augmented technologies in Man+.

Fast forward to 2012. Don’t you get that curious and unnerving feeling that we are all somehow unwittingly working for Google or Facebook? Increasingly we inhabit a world living vicariously through the encrypted pseudo personalities of our on screen in-world micro personas . . . unconsciously drifting through hypertext paradigms. A world in which we practice living our life, detached, seamlessly switching through various mediated context specific selves Instant Messaging, Twittering, curiously making ourselves up as we go along.

Mashing of context, deliciously devoid of any true content, enacting genres, adopting alternate personalities, role-playing, outsourcing our emotions, whilst exhibiting those of others. Wondering, whose personality is this anyhow? A fragmented psychosis, unconsciously and collectively dreamt up, left over from some discarded marketing campaign? With such shared interrelated experiences, a world in which everyone is so profoundly involved, the self becomes somewhat shapeless and hard to pin down.

Boundaries have traditionally defined the physical geographical limits of the tribe. The machines and technologies of mass observation and communication blur and dissolve our Cartesian certainty. This detached observer systematically distanced outside of the frame of experience.

We will consider the utopian dreams of the 20th Century, from the counter culture of the 50’s and 60’s through the nihilistic disillusionment of Punk, the ambivalence of Generation X to the Anti–Globalization alliance and environmental activism of 10:10?

 

Simon Herron

Academic Leader in Architecture School of Architecture Design and Construction University of Greenwich

 

 

Referance:

Velvet Air projects: Home to a selection of images from our archive of student work.

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OUR LECTURERS

We are proud to present our confirmed lecturers:

•Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich
•Sir Peter Cook, CRAB Studio
•Simon Herron, University of Greenwich
•Hermann Klöckner, ART+COM
•Léopold Lambert, the Funambulist
•Ena Lloret, Gramazio & Kohler
•Jorge Ayala, [Ay]A STUDIO

Neil Spiller is Dean, School of Architecture, Design & Construction at the University of Greenwich, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Founding Director of the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group (AVATAR) and a practising architect. 

He was previously Vice Dean, the Graduate Director of Design, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. 

He is author of numerous book and his articles and design work have been published in every major design and architecture magazine worldwide. 

"People have described my drawings as a kind of myth-making, and certainly my work over the last ten years has become very mythic" -Spiller 

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Sir Peter Cook is an architect and a hugely influential writer and educator, teaching both internationally and at home in London. 

He co-founded the avant-garde research group; Archigram in 1961, who's achievements were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects and was awarded the Royal Gold Medal. 

He was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching and is currently running the architectural office Crab Studios with Gavin Robotham in London. 

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Simon Herron is currently Academic Leader in Architectural Technology at the University of Greenwich and postgraduate design studio tutor togheter with Susanne Isa. 

In 1989 he became a partner at the architectural office Ron Herron Associates. 

Previously, he has been a Senior College Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett UCL, has taught at University of Westminster, Sci-Arc Los Angeles and at the Architectural Association London. 

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Hermann Klöckner is a berlin-based interaction designer, art director and media artist working with the Berlin-based, interdisciplinary design group ART+COM. 

ART+COM’s work includes different kinds of formats: Autoactive, reactive and interactive objects and installations, media-based environments and architecture. 

Although often very complex, the projects are always driven by the content and not by the technology. Despite having grown and professionalised its operations, ART+COM remains dedicated to its original cause from nearly 25 years ago: to design innovative and original projects and to pave the way for the future of media-based communications. 

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Léopold Lambert is a French architect and writer currently living in New York. 

His work is based on an attempted balance between design and writing, each of those informing the other one. 

His main research investigates the inherent political violence carried by architecture through its physicality and its potential use in the context of a resistive struggle against a dominant order. These thoughts are frequently communicated through his wordpress-blog "the Funambulist" and has recently been collected in the form of a book, entitled Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012.). 

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Ena Lloret (born in Copenhagen) is a research fellow at the ETH Zurich department of Arcitecture and Digital Fabrication working for the architectural research office Gramazio & Kohler.

Gramazio & Kohler are examining the changes in architectural production requirements that result from introducing digital manufacturing techniques. Their special interest lies in combining data and material and the resulting implications this has on the architectural design. The possibility of directly fabricating building components described on the computer expands not only the spectrum of possibilities for construction, but, by the direct implementation of material and production logic into the design process, it establishes a unique architectural expression and a new aesthetic.

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Jorge Ayala is the founder of the multidisciplinary designstudio [Ay]A STUDIO.

He is based in Paris and his research is committed to cutting edge research and material experimentation, across scales and between disciplines; from fashion design, architecture to landscape urbanism, complex organisational systems and strategies in both theoretical and professional praxis.

[Ay]A Studio explores informal/intangible parameters in order to innovate. These innovations are not limited to the architectural form but also the capacity to use collective efforts, the functionality and accessibility of networks of distribution (input/output), economy, self-sustainability, and in general, a large capacity to evolve or be adapted topographically, operatively, and environmentally.

Besides research Ayala focuses on education throught workshops and lectures all around the world.

The Hunt For Speakers

During the planning of this symposium several interesting speakers have been invited, and as it always is, some had to declined their invitation.
Most of the speakers who were un-able to attend has been extremely positive to contributing, but has unfortunately been scheduled elsewhere these given dates.

We will of course keep contact and hope to be able to see them at Lund School of Architecture in the future.

Thank you for your kind answers:

• Lisa Iwamoto | IwamotoScott
• Laura Allen & Mark Smout | SmoutAllen
• Juhani Pallasmaa | Juhani Pallasmaa Architects
• Thomas Heatherwick | Heatherwick Studio
• Christine Hawley | Bartlett School of Architecture
• Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen | CITA
• Selma & Salwa Mikou | Mikou Design Studio
• Li Xinggang | CADG
• Hanif Kara | AKT
• Geoff Manaugh | BLDGBLOG
• Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda | Cero9

Visible on Gramazio & Kohler's News Feed

Our lecturer Ena Lloret is working for Gramazio & Kohler in Zürich

read more about her and their works here

Sponsor | Sveriges Arkitekter Skåne

We are proud to present Sveriges Arkitekter Skåne as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. 

They have previously been supporting this event and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

Sponsor | Jais Arkitekter

We are proud to present Jais Arkitekter as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event for many years and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work. 

 Thank you

Jais Arkitekter was established 1957 in Helsingborg, Sweden.
In their long list of built projects we are proud to say that they have made the design for the restoration of our School of Architecture in Lund, that reopened exactly one year ago. 

Sponsor | Sveriges Arkitekter

We are proud to present Sveriges Arkitekter as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. 

They have previously been supporting this event and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

Swedish Association of Architects is a professional organization for architects, interior architects, landscape architects and spatial planners with 11.500 members (including 2.600 students).

Sponsor | Akademiska Hus

We are proud to present Akademiska Hus as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event for many years and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

Akademiska Hus is the largest property company in Sweden. The company carries on its operations - planning, construction, ownership and management - in six regions, from Kiruna in north to Malmö in the south and the estimated market value of the properties is SEK 52 billion.

 The Akademiska Hus business concept is to be the leader in creative environments for higher education and research. Akademiska Hus's most important tenant category is universities and colleges. Other tenants include research institutes and research-intensive companies as well as companies, public authorities and other organisations that have a strategic link to our campuses and which contribute to creating an attractive totality.

Books by Neil Spiller

One of our speakers at LAS*12 is Neil Spiller.

Neil Spiller is Dean, School of Architecture, Design & Construction at the University of Greenwich, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Founding Director of the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group (AVATAR) and a practising architect. 

He was previously Vice Dean, the Graduate Director of Design, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London.

These are a few of the books Spiller has written and edited through the years:

Seam(less) by Jorge Ayala, [Ay]A STUDIO

One of our speakers at LAS*12 is Jorge Ayala, founder of [Ay]A STUDIO

[Ay]A STUDIO

Lowtech Jewelry Design 

lasercut cardboard

Shoe Design by Jorge Ayala, [Ay]A STUDIO

[Ay]A STUDIO

Shoe Design 

Collection 1, prototypes

Discrepancy Cape by Jorge Ayala, [Ay]A STUDIO

[Ay]A STUDIO

 Clothing Design

eroded lasercut leather like fabric

Flop Table by Jorge Ayala, [Ay]A STUDIO

[Ay]A STUDIO

furniture design 

stitched latex and poured resins