Matthias Sauerbruch & Louisa Hutton: "draw love build"

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MIT Architecture | Fall 2022 Lecture Series: Matthias Sauerbruch & Louisa Hutton: "draw love build," Ahmad Tehrani Symposium

Room 10-250 MIT School of Architecture and Planning

MIT Architecture | Fall 2022 Lecture SeriesMatthias Sauerbruch &amp; Louisa Hutton, &quot;draw love build,&quot; with Mark WigleyThe Ahmad Tehrani Symposium6:00 PMThis lecture will be held in person in Huntington Hall (rm. 10-250) and streamed online.** Webcast link here: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/webcast/architecture/s22/8/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_PC-cvPzv6Us56S6rtA</a>**NOTE: if you would like to attend the event in-person and are NOT an MIT student, faculty, or staff member, please register as &quot;IN-PERSON (non-MIT affiliates) and email arch-comm@mit.edu ASAP. We will do our best to accommodate you but seating and entrance to the building is very limited due to COVID-19 restrictions. draw love buildWithin the overall framework of today’s wide-reaching sustainable agenda - whose urgency has been noticeably reinforced by the current pandemic - architecture occupies a delicate and often contradictory territory. In truth largely partial to the still-reigning paradigm of endless growth, it finds itself in immanent contradiction to the ecological mindset and its imperative of reduction. Faced with this conflict we ask ourselves: can architecture act as an avantgarde for the “Climatic Turn”? For a long time, the very stuff of architecture - that is: haptic, corporeal, sensual matter – has become banalised into marketing image ‘material’. Perhaps the Climatic Turn will help to re-root appreciation and to reassert architecture’s inherent power? Sustainable practice should provide a testbed for a decarbonised economy; its products should enable different lifestyles that rethink the ways we live and work, how we consume and how (much) we produce.Witnessing slow societal transformation in the face of rapid environmental change, we think that rational (and quantitative) arguments alone will not suffice to motivate change. Instead we should find ways to combine a new modesty with environments that stimulate the senses and maximise the wellbeing of the individual that the ecological movement has always wished to protect.Matthias Sauerbruch &amp; Louisa HuttonDirectors of Sauerbruch HuttonMatthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton founded Sauerbruch Hutton in 1989 and have since been directing the office. Matthias is a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council, a member of the Urban Design Council in Munich and on the board of KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and was Director of the Architecture Section of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Matthias has taught at the Architectural Association in London as a Unit Master. He has held tenure professorships at the TU Berlin as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Virginia, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of the Arts in Berlin. Matthias himself studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Architectural Association in London. Louisa was a member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation for thirteeen years, and was a Commissioner at CABE as well as a member of the first Steering Committee for Germany’s Bundesstiftung Baukultur. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 2014 Louisa was elected to become a Royal Academician, and was subsequently awarded an OBE in 2015 for her contribution to architecture. Further to Sauerbruch Hutton‘s endeavours, Louisa has taught at the Architectural Association and was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Louisa herself studied at the University of Bristol and the Architectural Association in London. Mark WigleyMark Wigley is Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University. He is a historian, theorist, and critic who explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. His books include Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions (Sternberg Press, 2020), Passing Through Architecture: The 10 Years of Gordon Matta-Clark (Power Station of Art: 2019); Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation (Lars Müller, 2018); Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (written with Beatriz Colomina; Lars Müller, 2016); Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio (Lars Müller, 2015); Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (010 Publishers, 1998); White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1995); and Derrida’s Haunt: The Architecture of Deconstruction (MIT Press, 1993). He has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Drawing Center, Columbia University, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Most recently he curated “Passing Through Architecture: The 10 Years of Gordon Matta-Clark” at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2019–20).

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