Lecture series Director, Iker Gil, is the recipient of the 2010 Emerging Visions Award from the Chicago Architectural Club, Director of MAS Studio, and Editor-in-Chief of MAS Context.
Lecture: Young Architects of Chicago
PORT Architecture + Urbanism Andrew Moddrell and Christopher Marcinkoski
Strawn.Sierralta Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta
Studio IDE Paul Tebben and Vladimir Radutny
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Instituto Cervantes Auditorium
31 W. Ohio St.
Free and open to the public
Three of the most ground-breaking and active architecture studios in Chicago, represented by designers in their early 30’s, will present their designs and discuss the challenges and opportunities they encounter. With the “Young Architects of Spain” exhibition as a reference, they will draw parallels and differences between their work and that of young architects in Spain.
PORT Architecture + Urbanism is a cutting-edge design and research practice based in Chicago. Founded by Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell in 2004 as a speculative -research collaboration, PORT has evolved into one the most inventive, young, urban design practices operating in the U.S. today. The studio synthesizes expertise in architecture, urbanism, landscape and planning to provide exceptional solutions to unique design challenges at every scale of the urban landscape - from the domestic to the civic - with projects ranging from detailed architectural design to institutional and urban strategy. PORT was recently awarded the unanimous first prize in the WPA 2.0 international design competition for re-imagining urban infrastructure in the United States.
Strawn.Sierralta is a young, boutique architecture and design studio also based in Chicago. They dedicate themselves to only a few exciting projects at a time, and are deeply committed to investigating the specific qualities of each project -its natural, cultural, social and political environments. Their goal is to find fresh solutions that are simple, bold, innovative and unexpected. Named the Chicago Architectural Club and the AlA’s Emerging Visions in 2007, Strawn.Sierralta has received both national and international recognition. Its projects have been shortlisted for the 9/11 Memorial Competition, the Ford Calumet Environmental Center Competition, and the McCormick Tribune Foundation’s Sculpture Competition. Strawn.Sierralta has won the History Channel’s City of the Future IBM Engineering Innovation Award, the Global Green Sustainable Housing Gold Star Award, EcoShack’s Green Tent Competition, and a Notable Entry Award for the Paris 2012 Olympic Landmark Competition.
Studio IDE is another Chicago-based architecture/design firm, established in 2008 as the collaborative synthesis of Paul Tebben and Vladimir Radutny. As a company, they bring forth a versatile knowledge base, ranging in scale, typology, and complexity. Through a critical assessment of contemporary life, their work strives to transcend the conventional interpretations of space, material, form and function. They place emphasis on the opportunities of program, the intricacies of place, and the nuances of culture. These become the catalysts for design strategies that move beyond aesthetic response, creating intelligent solutions grounded in function, context, and personal meaning.
Lecture: Antón García-Abril – Stones & Beams
Ensamble Studio, Madrid, Spain
Monday, April 25, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Instituto Cervantes Auditorium
31 W. Ohio St.
Free and open to the public
This lecture focuses on works from Ensamble Studio, a firm whose architectural designs are developed using technology with new insight from local site-specific proposals to global synthetic systems. Topics include structure and space, assembly and material, effective processes of construction, and maximum expression with fewer resources. The scale of the projects ranges from small installations and interventions in historical buildings to the design of towers, collective housing systems, and cities.
Antón García-Abril (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.), and in 1996, he received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome. In 2000, he established Ensamble Studio, leading a team in search of architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University and at Cornell University, among others in both the United States and Europe.
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The Instituto Cervantes is a public, not-for-profit institution founded by the government of Spain in 1991 to promote Spanish language teaching and knowledge of the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries throughout the world. It is now the largest international Spanish teaching organization and has more than 70 centers on 5 continents.
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