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 LEBBEUS WOODS 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 & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 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 Cruz Teddy 4/23 DrawingLocally Sculpturally, Thinking Assets: Paper Karen Bausman 4/2 Drawing About All Michael Webb 3/19 butEvidencethat ItExists Not Architecture Lauretta Vinciarelli 3/5 Line Rules Woods Lebbeus 2/26 HandtoMouse From James Wines 2/19 ARCHITECTURE AND DRAWING 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 New York City and Gradoli in Italy 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 United States, con- spaces, environmental art works, interiors, of Illinois School of Architecture (1960- garden design. Her watercolors have London, taking seventeen years to gradu- undeniable creative connection with her tinued his studies at California 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 Florence, 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 Rome 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 Harvard University 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 Columbia University, 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 / Los Angeles 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 Cooper Union, 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.