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Nov 30, 20080

William Katavolos interview w/ Deborah Gans

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Global Warming Ready image by Diesel

Professor W. Katavolos has been part of the Architecture School at Pratt Institute since the sixties. He is co-director of the Center for Experimental Structures. Over the years liquid architecture has been developed there. His early furniture is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of art and the Louvre.

As a consulting designer he created the Time-Life and Owens Corning partition systems, the suspension ring system for the Moscow Fair, the Agricultural and Solar Pavilions for Salonika. His manifesto, Organics, published in Holland in 1961 became the basis for chemical architecture. His theory of the fundamental structure of nature is being prepared for publication. He lives with his wife, Terenia in Key West and New York.

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Nov 18, 20080

PRATT EPITHELIUM Studio in Architect Magazine

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photo by Mark Mahaney

Words by Katie Gerfen

Who knew a bagel shop delivered to studio? It’s 9:30 on a Friday morning, and nine sleepy fourth- and fifth-year students at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture are preparing to present their research when a cell phone chirps and one person makes a break for the door. “Is she coming back?” asks visiting professor Philip Beesley, down for a biweekly visit from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The student returns, bagel in hand, and the conversation resumes as each student presents information on architectural theory, ranging from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere to Eric Owen Moss’ efforts to, as Beesley puts it, “build [James Joyce's] Finnegans Wake in Culver City.” read more

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Nov 15, 20080

RPI + SOM = CASE

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The interest between academia and professional practice continues with the creation of CASE, a joint research effort between Rensselaer Polytechnic and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A group of researchers reside at the SOM Wall Street address and work together with architects and engineers to reshape the profession and industry. Having witnessed its development and surge to push innovation in technology, I do believe we will see interesting work coming out of this collaboration. read more

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Nov 8, 20080

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy

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A special double issue featuring:
+ Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey
+ Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko read more

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