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The City College School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce the conference
Ineffable, exploring points of contact between the inexpressible dimensions of architecture and the codes, theories,
and techniques by which they are manifest.

Seeking beyond polarizing terms like “post-human”, Ineffable examines
places where the digital revolution has inspired a reconsideration of human agency; sparking new modes of thought,
pedagogy, and building. This public event asks architects, design scholars, literary critics, and historians to address the
cultural, political, and philosophical issues associated with the use of digital tools for the expression of architectural ideas.

Panel 1: Technology, Language, and Time (10:30am – 12:45pm) / Moderated by Bradley Horn, The City College
Do the technological advancements which raise the specter of building the “un-buildable” have an equally revolutionary
impact on what is thinkable? This panel examines the role of human agency in architecture against the background of a
computational universe and its attending world-view. Has the technological revolution liberated modes of expression that were
previously unavailable?
Participants:
David Gersten, The Cooper Union Globe Double: Mimetic Capital; Technology
N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon, UCLA Architecture, Media, Language
Alberto Perez-Gomez, McGill University Architecture, Ethics, and Technology
Yehuda E. Safran, Columbia University Shall We Be Silent About Something Else?
Michael Silver , Cornell University Non-Conceptual Architecture
Panel 2: Pedagogy, Technique, and the Transmissible (1:30pm – 3:45pm) / Moderated by Maria Berman, The City College
This panel examines the way that technology has affected what is pedagogically transmissible. How has technology expanded
the domain of architectural education? Has computation made it possible for students to access dimensions of architectural
insight that would have otherwise been out of reach? How can the design studio be used as a research laboratory?
Participants:
Karl Chu, Pratt Institute Ontology of Genetic Architecture
Yael Erel, Pratt Institute The Structure of a Beginning
Ed Keller, Columbia University Speaking with the Alien: Agents of Revolutionary Time
George Ranalli, The City College tba
Jason Vollen, University of Arizona Laboratory
Panel 3: Material, Number, and Space (4:15 pm – 6:30pm) / Moderated by Ashley Schafer, Ohio State University
This panel examines both the formal and informal mathematics which enable immeasurable concepts to be translated into
measured reality. Panelists will address what can be quantified, translated, and built, and what cannot. What is the relationship
between systems of measure that mediate artistic expression and the materials within which they get embodied? How does the
organizational logic or code of an architectural assembly relate to its capacity for expression?
Participants:
Evan Douglis, Pratt Institute Digital Alchemy
Ben Nicholson, Art Institute of Chicago Hidden Residues Beneath the Surface
José Oubrerie , Ohio State University In the shoes of Le Corbusier
Lebbeus Woods, The Cooper Union Allusions, Analogies, and the Unpresentable
Meejin Yoon and Eric Howeler, MIT Tangible Media / Intangible Matter
Ineffable was made possible by generous funding from The Graham Foundation, The Solow Foundation, and The LEF Foundation. This
conference is free and open to the public and will be held on Saturday, November 10th, 2007 from 10:30am-6:30pm in Shepard Hall room 95.
The City College School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Shepard Hall, Room S-103 / Convent Avenue at 138th Street / New York, NY 10031

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