Events

Spring 2014, lecture by Thom Faulders.

Lecture by Thom Faulders.

1021 1024 Kent State University, Florence Program | College of Architecture & Environmental Design

On Tuesday February 11, 2014, Thom Faulders, founding partner of FAULDERS STUDIO, Oakland, CA (faulders-studio.com) will be at Palazzo Cerchi presenting recent works by his office. The lecture will be introduced by John Loomis.

FAULDERS STUDIO works at the intersection of commissioned architecture, permanent public art installations, international museum and gallery exhibitions, and speculative design research. Led by architect Thom Faulders and based in Oakland, CA, the multi-disciplinary practice believes that the built environment can function as an open condition: a responsive medium activated through an exchange with contextual phenomena and dynamic perceptual interactions. By transforming simple materials into vibrant spatial formations, the studio’s projects are embedded with unique strategies that sync stability with change. These works are informed through and defined by investigations into emergent and unpredictable behaviors often present in complex artificial and natural systems.

Spring 2014, lecture by Luis Urculo.

Lecture by Luis Urculo.

1024 683 Kent State University, Florence Program | College of Architecture & Environmental Design

On Tuesday January 28, 2014 Luis Urculo, principal of Estudio Luis Urculo in Madrid, Spain (www.luisurculo.com) lectured at Kent State University, Florence Program. His lecture was introduced by Marco Brizzi, professor of the “Architecture and Media” theory course.

Luis Urculo, architect and visual artist, studied architecture at the ETSAM Technical School of Architecture in Madrid and at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. In 2006 he established his own studio. Since then, Urculo’s videos have become well known and highly respected throughout the architecture industry. He develops a work of small and indefinite architecture in an opened format. “I no longer know what architecture is and what an architect should do”, says Urculo. “I am interested in the peripheral side to architecture, the processes, developments and approaches that can be manipulated, sampled and translated into other scales, adapting to the composition of the project, creating new scenes/ experiences / expectations not contemplated previously.”