May 23, 20100
core.profile:Vittorio Giorgini
03.24.2010
Vittorio Giorgini, 1925-2010
Two colleagues recall the longtime Pratt Institute professor and designer of visionary topological architecture.
Apr 12, 20100
core.awareness: William Katavolos interview (p5-8)
Mar 13, 20100
core.profile:William Katavolos-Futurist
It is our pleasure to share with you the first 4 parts of a 12 part series interview with William Katavolos of Pratt Institute, School of Architecture. Over the next three weeks, we will introduce on core.form-ula all of the interviews. William has been a staple at Pratt for over 50 years and has radically influenced students from all disciplines. His career spans over 60 years, beginning with the 1940’s, where he produced the “T” chair, which is currently in the permanent collection at MOMA, as well as the Louvre. William along with Haresh Lalvani, co-founded The Center for Experimental Structures (CES), where he is developing the only known liquid architecture/structures. In 1961, in his essay titled “Organics” , was published in a book Programs and Manifestos on 20th-Century Architecture, he writes about chemical architecture and its ability to grow from polymers. He is ahead of his time….enjoy>>>
Sep 29, 20095
core.profile: Haresh Lalvani
We are pleased at core.form-ula to profile Dr.Haresh Lalvani of Pratt Institute. Dr.Lalvani has spent the last 30+ years building an incredibly rich body of work that has pushed design to new limits. Dr.Lalvani has been working on many ideas through out his career, we are only able to feature a small percentage of this work within this profile. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will introduce some more experimental work coming out his Morph Studio and Milgo-Bufkin on core.form-ula.
Mar 22, 20095
profile: Tomas Saraceno
Who: Tomas Saraceno
What: Sculpture/Science
Where: Japan, USA, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, England, Brazil
How: inflatables
When: 1998 – Present (2008)
Why: Tomás Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities for rethinking how we live in relation to one another—for reshaping notions about nationality and property, and revising our ideas about the fixity of the built environment and the organization of cities. Air-Port-City, Saraceno’s ongoing project, envisions networks of habitable platforms that float in the air. read more
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