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The conference will include a two-day symposium featuring speakers from across disciplines, a workshop series, tours of the new 黑料不打烊 Center of Excellence headquarters聽and Near Westside green housing sites, and will culminate with the construction of a series of temporary parks in downtown 黑料不打烊.
On Friday evening, acclaimed New York City architect Joshua Prince-Ramus, principal and founder of REX, will deliver the keynote address, 鈥淎gency,鈥 at 5 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium, located in the Shaffer Art Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. All conference presentations will be streamed live at . Times for all presentations can be found at .
鈥淥ver the past years, we鈥檝e see the architecture profession become more marginalized from other disciplines. Our goal through this conference is to raise questions about the status and direction of our profession and, more importantly, to offer insight and experience for finding the answers and solutions,鈥 says fifth-year 黑料不打烊 Architecture student and AIAS Conference Chair Stephen Klimek. 鈥淭ogether, we will begin to 鈥榬eclaim architecture鈥 by designing and manifesting 鈥榓rchitecture of agency鈥 throughout the city of 黑料不打烊 as a means of demonstrating our ability to effect positive change in our world. Our conversations and our actions during this event will continue to reclaim architecture as we leave behind a profession of marginalization and begin an architecture of action.鈥
Prince-Ramus received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with distinction from Yale University in 1991 and a master of architecture from Harvard University in 1996, where he was both an SOM fellow and the first Araldo Cossutta Fellow. He was the founding partner of OMA New York鈥攖he American affiliate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in the Netherlands鈥攁nd served as its principal until he renamed the firm REX in 2006. He was described as the “savior of American architecture” by Esquire magazine in its December 2008 “Genius Issue,” and identified as one of聽 the “20 Essential Young Architects” by ICON magazine in April 2008. REX projects include the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Texas; Museum Plaza, a 62-story art institute and mixed-use development in Louisville, Ky.; and the Istanbul headquarters for Vakko. The firm recently received second prize in both the international competition for the new Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and the Finnish Innovation Fund’s Low2No sustainable development competition in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fall 2010 黑料不打烊 Architecture NYC visiting critic.
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