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| Book Launch | Jos Aragez - Spatial Infrastructure
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| With Jos Aragez (Practicing Architect), Catherine Ingraham (Chair of Graduate Architecture, Pratt Institute), Elisa Iturbe (Prof., Cooper Union), Nader Tehrani (Prof., The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture - The Cooper Union). |
| The Cooper Union Library, 7 E 7th St |
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Jan 24 (Tue) , 2023 @ 06:30 PM
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After The Building, Jos Aragez's second book revolves around a new concept in architecture, spatial infrastructure, that operates both as a design tool capable of projecting architectural thinking forward, & as an analytical category that shifts our understanding of the history of the field & contemporary production.
Taken together, the collection of essays presented by Aragez investigates some of the most intractable issues pertaining to architectural discourse, while also examining scientific, critical, & cultural dimensions where relevant. Key subjects include a building's discursive building, engineering patents & spatial disposition in architecture, typological invention & sponge surfaces, the organic at the intersection of architecture & philosophy, imageability in the context of an evolving market economy, language vis--vis self-determinacy in creative practices, a building's spatial kernel, & the possibility of architectural metacriticality.
Aragez' presentation will be joined in discussion with Catherine Ingraham & Nader Tehrani. The discussion will be moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
Jos Aragez is a licensed practicing architect, writer, & educator based in Paris & New York. He teaches at Yale University, having previously led graduate studios & seminars at Columbia GSAPP from 2013-20, & having held the 2020-21 H. Deane Pearce Endowed Chair at Texas Tech. Aragez obtained a PhD in the History & Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. Earlier he graduated with a Master of Architecture & Urbanism from the University of Granada, Spain (Honorable Mention, University Graduation Extraordinary Award, & 1st National Prize in Architecture) and, from Columbia GSAPP, with a post-professional Master's degree (Honor Award for Excellence in Design) & a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Architectural Research. Aragez has lectured extensively across Europe & North America-including most of the top schools-in addition to the Middle East & Japan. Besides Columbia & Texas Tech, he has taught at Cornell, Princeton, Penn, Rice University in Paris, & the University of Granada. His recent five-year project, involving the publication of The Building (2016, Lars Mller Pub.), is widely regarded in international circles as one of the most significant contributions to architectural discourse in the 2010s. His writings have also appeared in e-flux, Flat Out, EAHN Proceedings, Pidgin, The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture & Design (Routledge, 2018), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2022), & TECNOSCAPE: The Architecture of Engineers (Fondazione MAXXI, 2022). His second book, titled Spatial Infrastructure, has been published by Actar in fall 2022. Aragez is the founding principal of Jos Aragez Architects, a practice for architecture, urbanism, & the production of discourse. In the past, he worked as an architect for Antonio J. Torrecillas (Spain), MVRDV (Rotterdam), & Idom/ACXT (London).
Catherine Ingraham: Chair of Graduate Architecture, Pratt Institute 1999-2005. Editor, Assemblage, 1991-98. Author, Architecture, Animal, Human (Routledge Press, 2006) & Architecture & the Burdens of Linearity (Yale University Press, 1998). Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts grant 2007; Canadian Center for Architecture research fellowship, 2005; Graham Foundation grants 1987 & 2005; NEA grant 1992; SOM research fellowship, Chicago, 1988-90; MacDowell Colony residencies (4) 2001-2007. Winner, with Laurie Hawkinson, of design competition for Museum of Women's History, Battery Park City, New York 2001. Author of over fifty articles on architectural theory & history published in academic journals, book collections & other publications. Invited lectures, seminars, symposia at over sixty national & international universities. Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1991 & 1993; Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University 1989 & 1990. Editor, with Marco Diani, of Restructuring Architectural Theory (Northwestern University Press, 1988)
Elisa Iturbe is Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union. Her research is currently focused on the relationship between energy, power, & form & her writings have been published in AA Files, Log, Perspecta, Antagonismos, New York Review of Architecture, & more. Iturbe is also co-founder of Outside Development, a design & research practice.
Nader Tehrani is a Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union where he also served as Dean from 2015-22. He was professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as the Head of the Department from 2010-2014. He is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, & an intensive dialogue with the construction industry.
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, to which he was also elected as a Member in 2021, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in The United States.
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