City College Proof 12/18/08 5:01 PM Page 1 THE CITY COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Lecture Series Spring 2009

DRAWING AND ARCHITECTURE 2/19 JAMES WINES From Hand to Mouse 2/26 Line Rules 3/5 LAURETTA VINCIARELLI Not Architecture but Evidence that It Exists 3/19 MICHAEL WEBB All About Drawing 4/2 KAREN BAUSMAN Paper Assets: Thinking Sculpturally, Drawing Locally 4/23 TEDDY CRUZ Practices of Encroachment SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN & All lectures at 6:00 pm in Shepard Hall in the ground floor Lecture Hall, Room 95. Convent Avenue at 138th Street, 212.650.7118 The Sixth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism Paul Auster “City of Words” Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 6 pm The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, The City College of New York/CUNY Lecture Series sponsored by Sciame . . . WHERE BUILDING IS AN ART F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. 14 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 Information on Continuing Education Credits for Licensed NYS Architects: contact 212.650.7312 City CollegeProof12/18/085:01PMPage2 Practices ofEncroachment Teddy Cruz 4/23 Paper Assets: Thinking Sculpturally, Drawing Locally Karen Bausman 4/2 All About Drawing Michael Webb 3/19 Not Architecture butEvidencethatItExists VinciarelliLauretta 3/5 Line Rules Lebbeus Woods 2/26 From HandtoMouse James Wines 2/19 DRAWING AND ARCHITECTURE

JAMES WINES LEBBEUS WOODS LAURETTA VINCIARELLI MICHAEL WEBB KAREN BAUSMAN TEDDY CRUZ

James Wines is an architectural designer, Lebbeus Woods (1940) was educated at Lauretta Vinciarelli Architect and artist liv- Michael Webb was born 1937 in Henley- Karen Bausman is a licensed architect and Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala. He began founding principal of Karen Bausman + studying architecture at Rafael Landivar artist, and writer, with a multi-disciplinary the Purdue University School of ing in and Gradoli in on-Thames in England (home of the row- Associates, a New York City-based archi- University in Guatemala City (B.A., 1982), practice that includes buildings, public Engineering (1958-60) and the University where she is involved in restoration and ing Regatta). He studied architecture in tecture firm renowned for establishing an and after emigrating to the , con- spaces, environmental art works, interiors, of School of Architecture (1960- garden design. Her watercolors have London, taking seventeen years to gradu- undeniable creative connection with her tinued his studies at State graphics, and product designs. Educated 64). He worked for Eero Saarinen and been widely exhibited and many are in the ate from a curriculum which is supposed clients in the public and cultural sectors, Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, with a for whom she has executed projects rang- year spent in , Italy, through the at Syracuse University, he is the founder Associates/Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo permanent collection of prominent institu- to take but five. However a project he ing from building designs to interiors and California State University International (in 1970) of SITE, a New York City based Associates (1964-68), then in private tions as the MOMA in New York City, the designed in the fourth year of his studies site-specific installations. Program, (B.Arch, 1987 ). After working for architecture practice. As the firm’s contin- practice. He has concentrated on theory National Gallery in Washington, the found its way, via a curious set of circum- Among her most notable New York com- some years with the firm of Pacific Associates uing President, he has designed and built and experimental projects since 1976. He SFMOMA in San Francisco, the Archive of stances, into the exhibition at MOMA missions are ultra-elegant headquarters for Planners & Architects in San Diego (1984- private clients Warner Bros. Records 89), he went to work in the office of San more than one hundred and fifty architec- is the Co-Founder and Scientific Director the Biennale di Venezia and the Italian New York in 1962 entitled “Visionary (Interior of the Year) and Elektra Diego architect Rob Wellington Quigley (1989- ture and environmental art projects in the of RIEA.ch, an institute devoted to the Archive of Drawings, and, also, in private Architecture”. His thesis design: The ‘Sin Entertainment – award-winning environ- 1993). In 1991, Cruz received the prestigious USA, Italy, France, England, Austria, advancement of experimental architectural collections. A monograph on her paint- Palace’ which repeatedly failed at his ments that are designed to celebrate the Prize in Architecture, becoming a Spain, Qatar, and Japan. Professor Wines thought and practice and the Editor of the ings, “Not Architecture But Evidence That school of architecture, was later widely iconoclastic artist and that serve as impor- Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. has delivered lectures at more than eight RIEA Book Series (published by Springer It Exists”, edited by Brooke Hodge, with published. tant incubators in New York’s highly com- Returning to San Diego from Rome, he estab- petitive arts scene. Her daring lished his own practice - estudio teddy cruz - hundred colleges, universities, and profes- Verlag, Vienna-New York), which focuses texts by Diana Agrest, K. Michael Hays He then, circa 1963, joined the Archigram Performance Theater for Warner Bros. Los in 1993, and shortly thereafter completed his sional conferences in forty-two countries on the works of younger architects. He and Joan Ockman, was published in Group, a collection of six young architects Angeles won the prestigious Progressive architectural education at and written three books on architecture, has exhibited, lectured on and published 1998. She has been the recipient of rebelling against what they saw as an Architecture Award and was featured on GSD (M.Des.S. 1997). including GREEN ARCHITECTURE for his projects worldwide, and written grants from the New York Foundation for English architectural scene on life support. page one of The New York Times cultural Cruz's work dwells at the border between San section. This breakthrough commission Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a prac- Taschen Verlag Publishers in 2000. numerous articles of criticism about archi- the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Through the pages of a magazine the and other works that push the boundaries tice and pedagogy that emerges out of the During the past decade, there have been tectural practice and theory. Notable proj- the Arts. She has taught architectural group produced highly colored images of of structural and visual poetry formed the particularities of this bicultural territory and the twenty-two monographic books and muse- ects include Solohouse (1988), Berlin design at , Pratt ‘a new architecture that would stand basis of “Karen Bausman: Supermodels,” integration of theoretical research and design um catalogues produced on his projects Free-Zone (1991), Havana Projects (1995- Institute and City College of New York. alongside the space capsules, the inflat- a solo exhibition of her building designs production. He has taught and lectured in vari- and working methods at Harvard ous universities in the U.S. and Latin America for private, commercial, and municipal 96), projects for the reconstruction of able structures and the lifestyles of a new University in 2001. and in 1994 he conceived and began the clients. Winner of twenty-five art and Sarajevo (1993-96), and The Fall (La generation’. For the last eleven years an Under her design leadership, her firm in LA/LA Latin America / studio, design awards, including the 1995 Chute), Paris, 2002. His works are the exhibition of the group’s work has been 2005 was awarded a multiyear Design an experimental summer workshop at SCI-Arc Chrysler Award for Design Innovation, subjects of many articles in architectural touring the world. Originating in Vienna, it Excellence contract as part of New York in Los Angeles. During 2000-05, he was City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambi- associate professor in the school of architec- James Wines was honored in 2002 by a journals, books, and numerous mono- visited New York in 1998. Michael came tious effort to bring new ideas, technology, ture at Woodbury University in San Diego large retrospective exhibition at the Centre graphs, including Anarchitecture: to the USA in 1965 and has since taught and environmental soundness to the where he began BI –Border Institute- to fur- FRAC in France - jointly sponsored by Architecture is a political act (London, architecture at The , design of city-financed libraries, communi- ther research the urban phenomena at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museé 1992); Radical Reconstruction (New York, Columbia University. He has received ty centers, and other structures in New border between the US and Mexico. He has York. Her firm in 2008 was selected to been recently appointed associate professor in des Beaux Arts in Orleans. His graphic 1997), and Earthquake! (Vienna, 2001), grants from the New York State Council design a 5,000 sf sustainable nature Public Culture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts work has been exhibited in more than one and The Storm and the Fall (New York, on the Arts and the New York Foundation study center and a 60,000 sf community Department at University of California, San hundred and fifty museums and galleries 2004), Lebbeus Woods: Experimental for the Arts. center for Soundview Park, Bronx, one of Diego. In 1998 he was invited to be editor of in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Drawings Architecture eight new destination parks being devel- the British Journal AD Architectural Design for oped under Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC a special issue on the Architecture of the and models can be found in numerous (Pittsburgh, 2004), and System Wien 2030 initiative for a greener, greater New Borderlands. Teddy has received awards for collections, including the Museum of (Stuttgart, 2005). He has received the York. projects on both sides of the border, including Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Centre Progressive An active member of the New York design various AIA San Diego chapter awards, as Pompidou, the Louvre, Victoria and Albert Architecture Award for Design Research, community, Ms. Bausman has participated well as for his academic work regarding as a panelist and lecturer for the issues of urbanism in the broader border Museum, Australian National Gallery, the American Institute of Architects Award Architectural League, the Cooper-Hewitt region. He received a San Diego American Tokyo National Gallery, and others. for Design, the Chrysler Award for National Design Museum, a Fellow of the Institute of Architecture Honor Awards in Professor Wines lives in the SoHo section Innovation in Design, and the American American Academy in Rome and the AIA 2002, Progressive Architecture Awards from of New York City and is currently a Academy of Arts and Letters Award for New York Chapter. She has also been a Architecture Magazine in 2001 and 2004, guest lecturer and design critic throughout the Architectural League of New York Young Professor of Architecture at Penn State Architecture. His works are in private and the United States and abroad – most Architects Forum Award and the Robert Taylor University. He continues to research envi- public collections, including the Museum recently at Harvard University’s Graduate Teaching Award from the ACSA. Last year, he ronmental issues in architecture and write of Modern Art (New York), the Whitney School of Design and the General Services received the 2004-05 James Stirling on these subjects for publications interna- Museum of American Art (New York), the Administration, where she serves on the Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, spon- GSA’s National Register of Design sored by the CCA in Montreal, the Van Alen tionally. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Excellence Peer Professionals. She is a Institute In New York and the London School (New York), the San Francisco Museum of featured commentator on NYC-TV’s of Economics and Political Science. He was Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art Secrets in the Sky: The Towers of Gotham, recently selected among eight other firms, as (Pittsburgh), the Austrian Museum of the 2007 New York Emmy-winning pro- one of the national “Emergent Voices” in gram currently airing on PBS stations architecture by the Urban League in New York Applied Arts, MAK (Vienna), the Cartier across the United States. City. Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris), Ms. Bausman has held the Eliot Noyes Teddy has been involved in many civic and and the Getty Research Institute for the Chair at Harvard University and the Eero cultural advocacy groups at a local, national Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles). He Saarinen Chair at , the only and international level. He is currently a mem- American woman to hold both distin- ber of the board of directors of C-3, one of has been a visiting professor at numerous guished design chairs. She was a faculty San Diego’s oldest advisory citizen groups on schools, including SCIARC, member of Columbia University’s School urban and environmental policies. He also co- The Bartlett in London, and Harvard and of Architecture’s Advanced Architectural chairs, with Joyce Cutler-Shaw, the Hot Topics Columbia Universities. Currently he is Design Studio from 1990 to 2004. Her Committee for the Council of Design applied research into biological and natural Professionals in San Diego and he was recent- Professor of Architecture at The Cooper structures during this time underlies her ly invited to be part of the advisory committee Union in New York City. dynamic building designs and is featured for the 2nd Mies Van Der Rohe Award for in INDEX Architecture, published my MIT Latin American Architecture and the Press in 2003. In 1994 she was awarded International Editorial Board of AD Magazine the Rome Prize at a White House ceremo- in London. ny. His work has been published in various archi- Today, Ms. Bausman is considered a tectural journals and newspapers, including design leader in the field of contemporary The New York Times, Global Architecture, building design with an international repu- Progressive Architecture, Architecture Record, tation for developing 21st century environ- Casas International, Thresholds MIT, The San DESIGN: VIGNELLI ASSOCIATES, NY PRINTING: THE LANGENDORFF CORP., CITY, JERSEY NJ ments that are creative and authentic to Diego Union, The Los Angeles Times, Praxis their site and purpose. Her firm combines Magazine and Princeton Architecture press’ the latest in technology with personal serv- City Limits. It has also been exhibited locally, ice to clients. Her work has won acclaim nationally and internationally, most recently in by the world’s most prominent media the exhibition “Urban Diagnostics,” commemo- including The New York Times, New York rating the 25th anniversary of the Centro Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Cultural de Tijuana, in ARCHILAB, France, and A+U (Japan), which published a 60- “Dark Places,” at the Santa Monica Museum page monograph of her work. of Art and “Tijuana: A Strange New World,” Karen Bausman received her professional at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San

School of Architecture, Urban Design of Architecture, School and Landscape Architecture City College/CUNYThe Street Convent Avenue at 138th NY 10031 New York, degree in architecture from the Cooper Diego, California. This year Teddy Cruz has Union School of Architecture in 1982. been invited to participate and exhibit at the Karen Bausman + Associates is a certified Architecture Biennials in Rotterdam and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise in Lisbon and was recently selected to represent New York City and New York State. the US in the American Pavilion at the 2008 Ms. Bausman is currently a distinguished Venice Biennale in Architecture. visiting professor at the School of Mr. Cruz is currently a distinguished visiting Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape professor at the School of Architecture, Urban Architecture of the City College of New Design and Landscape Architecture of the City York/CUNY. College of New York/CUNY.