Tag Archives: Elena Manferdini

SPAN lecture & panel discussion at ABB 08.

Written by SaM. Posted on November 9, 2008. Filed under lectures. Tagged ABB 08, Achim Menges, Alisa Andrasek, architecture, Architecture Biennale Beijing 08, computational design, Elena Manferdini, Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Matias del Campo, Neil Leach, parametric design, Prof. Xu Wei Guo, Roland Snooks, Sandra Manninger, SPAN, Tsinghua University, Yusuke Obuchi. No comments.

Architecture Biennale Beijing 08 Elena Manferdini

During our stay in Beijing the organizers of the Biennale, Neil Leach and Wei Shu staged a two day conference and lecture series at Tsinghua University. The panel discussion included all the individual Curators of the Beijing Biennale. The discussion covered issues of computational design, … Read More →

SPAN at ABB 08, opening event.

Written by SaM. Posted on November 1, 2008. Filed under exhibition. Tagged ABB 08, Achim Menges, Alisa Andrasek, architecture, Architecture Biennale Beijing 08, computational design, Elena Manferdini, Emmanuel Ruffo, Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Matias del Campo, Neil Leach, Pablo C. Herrera, parametric design, Prof. Xu Wei Guo, Roland Snooks, Sandra Manninger, SPAN, Tsinghua University, Yusuke Obuchi. No comments.

Architecture Biennale Beijing 08 exhibition set up 02

On invitation by Neil Leach SPAN participated on the Architecture Biennale Beijing 2008. The opening venue at 798 Space in Beijing was great; many thanks to the generous support of Prof. Xu Wei-Guo who made it possible. Apart of being a participant Neil Leach also … Read More →

Schindler Redux symposium at SCI-Arc.

Written by SaM. Posted on December 1, 2006. Filed under lectures. Tagged architecture, design, Elena Manferdini, Eric Owen Moss, MAK, Schindler House, SCI-Arc, SPAN, Tom Wiscombe, USC, vertical garden. No comments.

SchindlerHouse

After the lecture at SCI-Arc, and another tablecrit at USC in the afternoon, we again rushed back to SCI-Arc to witness a podium discussion and presentation in the main gallery of SCI-Arc. The discussion was conducted by E.O. Moss and featured SCI-Arc faculty staff members … Read More →

Exotic morphologies and porous bodies at SCI-Arc.

Written by SaM. Posted on November 24, 2006. Filed under teaching. Tagged architecture, design, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Jason Payne, Marcello Spina, Matias del Campo, Michael Speaks, morphology, review, Sandra Manninger, SCI-Arc, SPAN, techniques, terminology, Tom Wiscombe. No comments.

review SCI-Arc

Today we joined the board of critics at the midterm review of a SCI-Arc studio whose teaching board includes Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita and Ramiro Diaz Granado. Following a ground course in architecture design techniques the students task is to approach a specific architecture design. … Read More →

Skin + Bones exhibition at MOCA.

Written by SaM. Posted on November 19, 2006. Filed under exhibition. Tagged architecture, Carbon Tower, design, Elena Manferdini, exhibition, fashion, gen(h)ome, Greg Lynn, MAK, MOCA Los Angeles, Peter Testa. No comments.

CarbonTower

Skin + Bones at the Los Angeles MOCA opened its gates to the public today. The exhibition examines the relation between fashion and architecture in contemporary practices, including issues such as patterns, geometry, construction, deconstruction and folding. Architecture and fashion practices share comparable notions in … Read More →