Architekturvortrag Brett Steele ARCHITECTURE AS APPARATUS
Architekturvortrag Brett Steele ARCHITECTURE AS APPARATUS
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THE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES 2010
Thema
This lecture examines the uneasy status of originality and authenticity in contemporary architectural culture in relationship to today’s ‘read-write’ versus ‘read-only’ forms of cultural production. A growing intellectual property war directed at the illegal copying of architectural and other works provides a backdrop for understanding the consequences of communication and other network technologies in architecture; platforms that are rapidly changing the circumstances within which architectural knowledge is conceived, recorded and transmitted today.
Brett Steele
Brett is the Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, including the AA Public Programme, and AA Publications. Current AA projects include: a reorganization and expansion of the Bedford Square campus; the building of a new rural campus in Hooke Park, Dorset; and a new global Visiting School bringing short courses to visiting students in a dozen cities around the world. In the past four years Brett has hired 100 new teachers and created two-dozen new administrative roles to support the students and staff of the school, and has launched a new Digital Prototyping Lab; a new London summer school in advanced computational architectures called the AA D_Lab; a new online communications team, the AA Digital Platforms group; AACP Curatorial Practices, a team of independent curators and content providers for AA events in London and overseas; and has established a series of new Research Clusters connecting the school to outside partners, collaborators and institutions.
The Architectural Association is the UK’s oldest and only private school of architecture, which has for decades been recognized as an influential worldwide leader in architectural education. AA graduates are the recipients of the world’s leading prizes and awards in architecture, including three of the past nine Pritzker Prizes, the RIBA Gold Medal & Stirling Awards, AIA and other design awards, and have made created many of the iconic buildings of our time. The AA School is the home of renowned architectural students and educators, and is the world’s most diverse and international school of architecture. 90% of the school’s full-time London students originate from sixty or more overseas countries each year. In 2008 Brett founded the AA Visiting School, an international circuit of global design workshops that has enrolled more than a thousand part-time visiting students in short courses set in cities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia during its first two full years of operation; in Dubai; Turin; Istanbul; Berlin and a dozen other cities. 2010 Visiting School courses have been announced for Santiago, Chile; Bangalore, India; Singapore; Shanghai; Beijing; San Francisco; Dae Jon, Korea; Tel Aviv; Madrid; San Paolo; London; and other cities.
Brett is the founder and former Director of the AADRL Design Research Lab, an innovative team-based M.Arch programme established as the school’s first-ever full-time, accredited graduate design degree. He is a partner of desArchLab, an architectural office in London, and has taught and lectured at schools throughout the world. He is the editor of NEGOTIATE MY BOUNDARY (London 2002); CORPORATE FIELDS (London 2005); DESIGN AS RESEARCH (Beijing 2005); FIRST WORKS: ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION OF THE 1960S & 1970S (2009; vol. 1 of the ‘works’ trilogy on the critical and experimental architectural of the 20th century); and SUPERCRITICAL: PETER EISENMAN MEETS REM KOOLHAAS (2009).
THE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES 2010
Thema
This lecture examines the uneasy status of originality and authenticity in contemporary architectural culture in relationship to today’s ‘read-write’ versus ‘read-only’ forms of cultural production. A growing intellectual property war directed at the illegal copying of architectural and other works provides a backdrop for understanding the consequences of communication and other network technologies in architecture; platforms that are rapidly changing the circumstances within which architectural knowledge is conceived, recorded and transmitted today.
Brett Steele
Brett is the Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, including the AA Public Programme, and AA Publications. Current AA projects include: a reorganization and expansion of the Bedford Square campus; the building of a new rural campus in Hooke Park, Dorset; and a new global Visiting School bringing short courses to visiting students in a dozen cities around the world. In the past four years Brett has hired 100 new teachers and created two-dozen new administrative roles to support the students and staff of the school, and has launched a new Digital Prototyping Lab; a new London summer school in advanced computational architectures called the AA D_Lab; a new online communications team, the AA Digital Platforms group; AACP Curatorial Practices, a team of independent curators and content providers for AA events in London and overseas; and has established a series of new Research Clusters connecting the school to outside partners, collaborators and institutions.
The Architectural Association is the UK’s oldest and only private school of architecture, which has for decades been recognized as an influential worldwide leader in architectural education. AA graduates are the recipients of the world’s leading prizes and awards in architecture, including three of the past nine Pritzker Prizes, the RIBA Gold Medal & Stirling Awards, AIA and other design awards, and have made created many of the iconic buildings of our time. The AA School is the home of renowned architectural students and educators, and is the world’s most diverse and international school of architecture. 90% of the school’s full-time London students originate from sixty or more overseas countries each year. In 2008 Brett founded the AA Visiting School, an international circuit of global design workshops that has enrolled more than a thousand part-time visiting students in short courses set in cities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia during its first two full years of operation; in Dubai; Turin; Istanbul; Berlin and a dozen other cities. 2010 Visiting School courses have been announced for Santiago, Chile; Bangalore, India; Singapore; Shanghai; Beijing; San Francisco; Dae Jon, Korea; Tel Aviv; Madrid; San Paolo; London; and other cities.
Brett is the founder and former Director of the AADRL Design Research Lab, an innovative team-based M.Arch programme established as the school’s first-ever full-time, accredited graduate design degree. He is a partner of desArchLab, an architectural office in London, and has taught and lectured at schools throughout the world. He is the editor of NEGOTIATE MY BOUNDARY (London 2002); CORPORATE FIELDS (London 2005); DESIGN AS RESEARCH (Beijing 2005); FIRST WORKS: ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION OF THE 1960S & 1970S (2009; vol. 1 of the ‘works’ trilogy on the critical and experimental architectural of the 20th century); and SUPERCRITICAL: PETER EISENMAN MEETS REM KOOLHAAS (2009).