Oz

Volume 16 Article 13

1-1-1994

Contributors

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Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Dr. Alberto Perez-G6mez was born The Interim Office of Architecture Fellowship visiting professor at the Japan and is self-educated in the field in Mexico City in 1949. He obtained was estahlished in 1984 by John Ran­ College of Architecture and Design, of architecture. In 1969 he estab­ his undergraduate degree in architec­ dolph and Bruce Tomb to investigate Kansas State University. lished Tadao Ando Architect and As­ ture and engineering in Mexico City, provocative relationships between the sociates. The firm has been the recip­ did postgraduate work at Cornell useful artifact and its context, by Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanra­ ient of numerous architecture and University, and was awarded a Mas­ crossing the boundaries that separate han founded their architectural prac­ design awards both within its native ter of Arts and a Ph.D. by the Uni­ sculpture from architecture. IOOA tice in in 1985. In Japan and abroad. He has held visit­ versity of Essex in England. His book encourages collaboration between ar­ their eleven years of collaboration ing professor positions at Columbia, Architecture and the Crisis ofModern chitects and artists on a variety of de­ since graduating from Harvard's GSD Harvard, and Yale Universities. Science (MIT Press, 1983) won the sign projects which include furnish­ in 1982 they have explored architec­ Alice Davis Hitchcock Award in ings, interiors and buildings. IOOA's ture as a discipline that links the cul­ David Bell is Associate Professor of 1984, a prize awarded every two collaborative efforts in art, architec­ tural and the physical by means of the Architecture at Rensselaer Polytech­ years for the most significant work of ture, and design have been exhibited architectural idea. This is communi­ nic Institute. He has had articles scholarship in the field. His latest and published, most recently in Pro­ cated in spatial terms and stimulated published in numerous journals and book Polyphilo: or the Dark Forest re­ gressive Architecture, Architectural by progressive technologies and cul­ in 1978, while teaching at Kansas visited (MIT Press, 1992), inspired Record, Cass Vogue, Art Forum, and tural change. State University, founded the Oz by Francesco Colonna's Hypnero­ the San Francisco Examiner's Image Hanrahan and Meyers Architects have Journal. tomachia Poliphili of 1499, explores Magazine. received numerous design awards and the erotic dimension of architecture. their work has been widely published Mark Dery is a cultural critic whose Robert Kronenburg is an architect in leading magazines such as Progres­ writings have appeared in The New Collaborating with Dr. Perez-Gomez and senior lecturer at the Centre for sive Architecture and Interiors. In ad­ York Times and Rolling Stone. His on this project was Louise Pelletier. Architecture, Liverpool John Moores dition to practicing, Victoria Meyers column "Technoculture" appears Ms. Pelletier graduated from the University, Liverpool, U.K .. He is teaches at Grad­ monthly in New Media. He guest Laval University School of Architec­ principal investigator on the research uate School of Architecture as a visit­ edited Flame Wars: The Discourse of ture in 1987. She completed a Mas­ project; The Development and Poten­ ing Assistant Adjunct Professor. Cyberculture, the Fall 1993 issue of ter of Architecture with honors in tial ofPortable Building Systems. He the South Atlantic Quarterly (92:4), the History and Theory of Architec­ has written for the Architects journal Brian Polt and David Beaver will re­ and is currently at work on Cybercul­ ture at McGill University in 1990, and Building Design and is preparing ceive Bachelor of Architecture degrees ture: Road Warriors, Console Cowboys and is currently working as a Re­ the Temporary and Transportable Ar­ from Kansas State University in 1994. and the Silicon Underground, a book search Associate at McGill Universi­ chitecture main entry for the Encyclo­ Their projects were exhibited in the about cybernetic subcultures to be ty. pedia of Vernacular Architecture ofthe Bayer Stone Competition during their published by Hyperion in 1994. World edited by Paul Oliver, as well fourth year design studio led by Asso­ Trevor Hoiland will receive his Bache­ as entries on the traditional buildings ciate Professor Vladimir Krstic. Daniel S. Friedman, AlA, was cura­ lor of Architecture degree from Kansas of the Orang Asli, marine dwellings, tor for The Architect's Dream at The State University in 1994. His project and vernacular pioneer construction Dagmar Richter attended the Univer­ Contemporary Arts Center in was completed in a fifth year studio led of the American Plains. His book; sity of Stuttgart, and conse­ Cincinnati. He is an Assistant Pro­ by Assistant Professor Robert Arens. Houses in Motion; the Genesis, Histo­ quently received her Diploma in Archi­ fessor in the College of Design, Ar­ Mark McGlothlin is a fourth year stu­ ry, and Development ofPortable Archi­ tecture from Det Kongelige Kun­ chitecture, Art, and Planning at the dent. His project was completed under tecture is to be published by Academy stakademi, Arkitektskolen, Copen­ 62 University of Cincinnati. Associate Professor Robert Condia. in 1995. During 1994 he is Fulbright hagen, . Her Post-Graduate Studies were completed with Peter Merrill Elam, Jeff Atwood, Lloyd Survival Research Laboratories was Cook, Stadelschule, Academy of Fine Bray, Denise Dumais, and Mack Sco­ founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline as an Arts in Frankfurt, Germany. Cur­ gin. Photographic credits go to Lloyd orginazation dedicated to re-directing rently an Assistant Professor at the Bray, Ron Forth, and Merrill Elam. the techniques, tools, and tenants of Graduate School of Architecture and industry and science away from their at UCLA, she has Michael Sorkin was born in Wash­ typical manifestations in practicality or held teaching positions at the Grad­ ington D.C. and received his archi­ product. SRL events have been staged uate School of Design, Harvard U ni­ tectural training at Harvard and widely in the United States and Eu­ versity and Guest Professorships at MIT. He is the principal of the rope. and SCI-ARCH. Michael Sorkin Studio in New York Her work has been published in City, a design practice devoted to Henry Urbach is an architect and journals such as L. Architecture projects at all scales with intentions writer, living in New York, whose pro­ D'Aujourd'hui, Architecture and Ur­ ranging from the practical to the jects consider relationships among ar­ banism, and Assemblage and has been polemical. Current projects include chitecture, desire and ideology. Cur­ the subject of numerous lectures and proposals for the Water rently working on a Ph.D. in architec­ exhibitions, most noteably in the front, a planning study of Greenwich tural theory at Princeton, Henry has es­ U.S.A. and Norway. She currently Village and several building proposals says published or forthcoming in Sites, maintains offices in both Los Angeles for New York, Tokyo, and Berlin. DBR, Assemblage, Center, and Stud. His and Germany. Sorkin is currently Director of the In­ writings on Interim Office of Architec­ sri tute of Urbanism at the Academy ture include "Interim on Interim" (Elle Scogin Elam and Bray Architects was of Fine Arts in and Visiting Decor, Feb/Mar 94) and "Prima Facie. founded in 1984 around the compli­ Professor of Architecture at Cooper Facing the Hyperreal" (New Langton mentary skills of it's three principles, Union. He lectures frequently and is Arts, 1992). Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam, and the author of numerous articles in a Lloyd Bray. Since then, their work very wide range of architectural, has received more than twenty-five scholarly, and general publications. design awards and has been met with His most recent books include Vari­ critical appraisal both nationally and ations on a Theme Park, an anthology ISSN 0888-7802 internationally. Featured in many ar­ on the modern American city, Exquis­ chitectural publications including Ar­ ite Corpse, and most recently Local Copyright Oz, Journal of the College chitecture and Urbanism, Assemblage, Code, a description of an ideal city of Architecture and Design, Kansas and Art Papers, the firms work shows imagined via a building code. In State University, 1994. Text and Il­ a consistent pursuit in architectural preparation are Origin ofa Species, a lustrations may not be reproduced design. The principals lecture and collection of the Sorkin Studio's ar­ without written permission. Inquiries teach frequently at leading architec­ chitectural projects and Urbanagrams, concerning back issues and financial ture schools and institutions includ­ a collection of narrative fragments de­ contributions should be addressed to: ing the Graduate School of Design, scribing the city otherwise presented Managing Editor, College of Archi­ and the Univer­ in Local Code. tecture and Design, Seaton Hall, sity ofVirginia. The project team for Collaborating with Michael Sorkin Kansas State University, , Kansas 66506-2902. Domus Linea Insecare consisted of on Godzilla was Andrei Vovk. 63