Portfolio 2010 by Diana Khadr

Diana Khadr Design Works University of Michigan M.Arch Candidate 2010

school 1 rural studio lars graebner : 2005

on tone 17 tone pre-arch studio anselmo canfora : 2004

33 sketchbooks summer 2009

as the territory 5 map studio jim bassett : 2005

graphite 17 pre-arch studio david sisson : 2003

posters 35 lecture taubman college communications : 2010

for broadcast geography 6 center studio jim bassett : 2005

diaphragm construct 18 construction : 2005

renovation 9 office inFORM studio : 2007

dequindre cut 19 studio john comazzi : 2006

urban sedan chair 13 construction : 2006

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ecole des beaux-arts 15 fontainebleau, france : summer 2005

intermodal station 29 studio malcolm mccullough : 2008

inFORM studio : 2007

professional academic personal

1 rural school

first floor

Situated within the residual space between a corridor of industrial activity and a wooded preserve along the Huron River, the school building transitions between these zones through its form, focusing interior views out toward the river, the city beyond, as well as the wooded areas to the north. In plan, the emphasis on several open areas and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;flex spacesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; allows for increased group activity while a raised half level divides the school to allow public evening functions in the lower half. [ink on mylar, basswood, acrylic]

second floor

Taking cues from the river and trees surrounding the school, the arterial roof structure serves as a circulation aid while remaining open to light and air.

view from cafeteria

3 rural school

Classroom Media Center

Classroom

Cross-section looking North_A

Media Center

Gymnasium

Longitudinal section looking West_B

reflecting into a mirror dissolving the model no more As an exercise in mapping, a spatial territorial construct is extracted from three given maps. [sculpting clay, wire]

Continuing this mapping studio, a site visit to the site in the city of Pittsburgh uncovered perceptions of place and the method in which this identity maps itself on the terrain. These investigative studies began to inform a unique program: a research center for Broadcast Geography, the mapping of the many digital signals that permeate the air and remain unseen when in transit from point of source to point of destination. The three buildings are grouped such that ribbons of space intersect at areas of vertical circulation before dropping into collective areas of interaction called â&#x20AC;&#x153;sinksâ&#x20AC;? where research and study meets the public eye in interactive exhibits. [museum board, chipboard]

Business business

education Educational

site

Site

5 map as the territory

Summer Hill

Perry North Upper Lawrenceville

Fineview

Chartiers City Windgap

Central Northside

Sheraden

Strip District

Allegheny Center

Allegheny West Chateau

Crafton Heights

dfo Be

North Shore

Elliott CrawfordRoberts

Central Business District West End

Westwood

Sou

Duquesne Heights

Ridgemont Oakwood

Bloomfield

Polish Hill

East Allegheny

elling

Homewood West

Upper Hill

Po int

Point Breeze

North Oakland

Bre ez e

Homewood South No

Squirrel Hill South

Southside Flats Allentown Greenfield

Southside Slopes

Mt. Oliver Boro

Swisshelm Park

Arlington Heights Arlington

Knoxville Mt. Oliver

Summer Hill

Hazelwood St. Clair Glen Hazel

Perry North Upper Lawrenceville Northview Heights

New Homestead

Overbrook

Lincoln MarshallPlace

Shadeland

Fineview

Chartiers City Windgap

Central Northside

Manchester

Sheraden

Allegheny Center

Allegheny West Chateau

Crafton Heights

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Fairywood

Fineview

Chartiers City Windgap

Perry South

ts Brunots Island

Esplen

Troy Hill

CaliforniaKirkbride

Central Northside

Manchester

Sheraden

East Allegheny

Allegheny Center

Allegheny West Chateau

Crafton Heights

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Central Business District West End

Westwood

Sou

Duquesne Heights

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Ridgemont

elling

CrawfordRoberts

Larimer Homewood West

Shadyside Po int

Point Breeze

North Oakland

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Squirrel Hill South

Allentown

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Banksville

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Mt. Oliver Boro

Mt. Oliver

Greenfield

Swisshelm Park

Arlington Heights Arlington Mt. Oliver

Hazelwood St. Clair

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Hays

Glen Hazel

Brookline

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Overbrook

Glen Hazel

Hays

Squirrel Hill South

Southside Slopes

Mt. Oliver Boro

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Brookline Carrick

Lincoln Place

New Homestead

Overbrook

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Central Oakland

Knoxville

Beechview Banksville

Homewood North Homewood South

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Squirrel Hill North

Carrick

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Bon Air

Homewood West

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Point Breeze

North Oakland

South O Oakland

Swisshelm Park

Arlington Heights Arlington

Knoxville

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Greenfield

Southside Slopes

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Middle Hill Terrace Village West Oakland

Allentown

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Larimer

Upper Hill

Southside Flats

Bon Air

Central Oakland South O Oakland Southside Flats

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East Liberty

Shadyside

Bluff

Beltzhoover East Hills

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CrawfordRoberts

Mount Washington

East Carnegie

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East Liberty

Upper Hill

Middle Hill Terrace Village West Oakland

Mount Washington

East Carnegie

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Bloomfield

Polish Hill Strip District

North Shore

Elliott

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Lower Lawrenceville

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Ridgemont

Oakwood

Garfield

hip

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Central Lawrenceville

Spring HillCity View

Regen t Squar e

MarshallShadeland

Bed

Business District

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Duquesne Heights

West End

Westwood LincolnLemingtonBelmar

Highland Park

Strip District

Elliott

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Morningside

Stanton Heights

Spring Garden

Frie

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Bloomfield

Polish Hill

North Shore Central

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Brighton Heights

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Garfield

Lower Lawrenceville

Troy Hill

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LincolnLemingtonBelmar

Highland Park Central Lawrenceville

Spring HillCity View

Perry South

ts Brunots Island

Esplen

Fairywood

Morningside

Stanton Heights

Spring Garden

Regent Squ are

Brighton Heights

Carrick

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Hays

Brookline

Frien

Bon Air

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Beltzhoover Beechview Banksville

Summer Hill

East Hills

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Squirrel Hill North

South O Oakland

Mount Washington

East Carnegie

Homewood North

Central Oakland

Bluff Sho

Larimer

Shadyside

Middle Hill Terrace Village West Oakland

circulation

East Liberty

hip

Troy Hill

CaliforniaKirkbride Manchester

LincolnLemingtonBelmar

Highland Park

Garfield

Lower Lawrenceville

Frie

Esplen

Fairywood

Spring HillCity View

Perry South

sink

Central Lawrenceville He Isl Is rrs an d

MarshallShadeland ts Brunots Island

Morningside

Stanton Heights

Spring Garden

Rege nt Squa re

Northview Heights

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Brighton Heights

East Hills

Given the density of vehicular traffic that just passes past the site, a method to bring cars into the Center for Broadcast Technology was devised. Cars become the rule of measure for an extensive roof that covers all three buildings and acts as roof, street, and walkway all at once. Every â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; traversing the site is 18 feet wide, enough to accommodate a single vehicle.

map archive

7 center for broadcast geography

map education

map generation

office 1

office 3 office 2

unused

office 3

office 2

corner as solid

Team: Michael Guthrie Diana Khadr (design+build)

[phenolic plywood, baltic birch, aluminum angles, bamboo flooring, concrete block, reused wood doors]

9 office renovation

after renovation

A former insurance sales office, boxed-in individual offices did not accommodate the open and collaborative attitude of a working architecture studio. tasked with designing a new space, desks were re-configured and walls carved open to create visual connections from one space into another while also allowing natural light to penetrate deeper into the space. Rather than complete wall removal, walls are carved and then privacy and spatial boundaries re-created through functional screens of shelving and storage. I acted as project manager and designer, generating everything from budget to imagery under the supervision of Michael Guthrie.

previous condition

office 1

hallway corner

previous office 3

entrance hallway

wood opening caps

aluminum opening framing

section A _direct light carving openings

dividing wall

section B_indirect light previous condition

Rather than finishing rough edges left from stripping columns and demolishing walls, openings are made flush with aluminum framing and capped with phenolic wood 11 office renovation

section A/B

desk shelf

laminated shelf

° 90

2'-0"

53° 1'-4"

139°

69° 68°

102. SEDAN-CHAIR - ARCHITECTURE ON THE RUN “...what if the sedan-chair was considered a mobile architecture, a building always on the move, unsettling, producing lingering doubts? What if the sedan-chair was evacuated and loaded or amended by some other program – a festival, carnival, processional?...

25°

Team: Diana Khadr (design+build) Dieneke Kniffin Patrick Lun Karin Neubauer Rikako Wakabayashi Travis Williams

Working in teams of six to seven you are asked to design and construct a sedan-chair emphasizing the tactility and total consideration of its construction – its quality of preciousness.”

2'-0"

[aluminum, corrugated cardboard, steel, rip-stop nylon]

13 urban sedan chair

step 1

polished aluminum tubing bolted in place laser-cut cardboard threaded on wood dowels

foot-rest

step 2

step 3

step 4

step 5

step 6

at the end of a long day, Rider and Carriers can convert the Urban Sedan Chair to a sleeping tent for three.

National Library of France - BnF

15 ecole des beaux-arts

Studied French contemporary and classic architecture, particularly in the Northern France region and collaborated on projects with music and composition students in the program. The National Library of France incorporates a dramatic elevation change by elevating its entrance with steps that take on a sculptural beauty of their own while also serving as a place to sit and observe. Sketches of a one week study-tour of Paris theatres, from the Bouffes du Nord theater, rescued from demolition and preserved in its current state, to the grandest of them, the Paris Opera.

musee la piscine, Roubaix, France

After decades of serving as a public health amenity, a local natatorium adapted to a change in the times and re-opened as a sculpture museum, preserving the vitality the structure had always brought to the town of Roubaix.

musee des beaux arts, Lille, France

A modern extension building to an existing museum in Lille reflects the original structure through small mirrors embedded in the new facade, allowing it to stand as a building on its own while still paying respect to the history surrounding it.

Imagining sections through a spark plug, illustrating depth with tonal paper, mapping the skin of an orange over time. [graphite, tonal paper]

17 graphite & tone on tone

Given a basic 3-dimensional shape, fashioned a 2-way diaphragm structure through digital modeling and lasercutting. As an exercise in material efficiency, further modeled a 3-way rigid diaphragm structure. [chipboard]

diaphragm construction 18

19 dequindre cut

Detroit R iver

sun episode

water episode

air episode

spiritual commercial abandoned residential

Team: Diana Khadr Dieneke Kniffin

Speaking to the theme of the studio, Nature & Artifice, we devised a scheme around experiential episodes of nature within the Dequindre Cut, an abondoned rail line in downtown Detroit. Greenhouses speak to the more literal part of nature and would provide trees to plant throughout the city. Episodes encompassing each greenhouse, however, would speak to the more experiential aspect of nature, the feeling of solar heat, the sound of water, the smell of wind. Plantings and materials within each episode were selected to enhance each episode: pine trees in the air episode would infuse a subtle scent as the wind passed through the needles, the juxtaposition of darkness and light within the sun episode would create movement as tree leaves arch toward the light.

Air Episode

Sun Episode

Water Episode

up up

dn dn

UP DN

UP UP UP

DN DN

conservatory greenhouse

greenhouse

library canteen DN

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conservatory

conservatory DN

(plant) spacing (plant) spacing

(plant) phasing

regular spacing in greenhouses occurs at 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; intervals

(plant) choreography (plant) choreography (2)

(plant) phasing in order to accommodate the number of trees required by the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greening projects, the the greenhouses not only contain conservatory to programs, but they also serve planting for greenhouse works withsocial theand landscape produce trees thatascan be area removed and re-planted the greening of detroit. in order to accomodate the amount of trees required by the greening, the on a 5 year four planting inwilltotal: a greenhouse where plantings start and greenhouse workscycle with the with landscape to produce these areas trees that be removed from the cut after five years and be transported into the city. the landscape around each greenhouse is designed as a nusery with three nursery beds where canyears. mature before from thetrees site. three beds that receives a new plantingthey every five each new plantingremoval contains all of the three

air

water

sun

plant types remain

irregular planting at transition areas allows for natural seeding and growing

(5)

blossoms

summer (6)

(8)

(6)

(7)

textures fall

(3)

winter

(plant)species species

color

density

(plant) (1)

(2)

(1)

dotted hawthorn

(2)

red maple

(3)

white oak

(3)

leaves shiny to reflect rays of sun

often found with oks; blooms in early spring

leaves appear whitish on underside and reflect sun

tree 1a enters greenhouse

yr 0-1

(4)

(5)

(4)

arborvitae

(5)

blackgum

(6)

redbud

(6)

occurs most abuntantly in swamps

usually found on borders of swamps; drooping branches

most common along rivers and streams

(7)

(8)

tree 1a is transplanted to nursery tree 2a enters greenhouse

yr 1-2 1a

(8)

(5)

(2)

associated with the specified episode.

(7)

spring (2)

spacing increased to 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; when trees transferred from greenhouse into nurseries

consistant between the greenhouse and nursery areas of each episode

yr 2-3

tree 2a is transplated to nursery tree 3a enters greenhouse

yr 3-4

tree 1b enters greenhouse

yr 4-5

site full remains dormant while tree 1b reaches one year maturity

yr 5-6

tree 1a exits site tree 1b tansplated to nursery tree 2b enters greenhouse

(6)

(7)

blue spruce

(8)

douglas firaromatic plant; popular during Christmas

(9)

white pine

tend to lose needles easily

in exposed situations, trees bend in direction of prevailing wind

Photograph courtesy of Jack Thompson

Team: Amy Baker Michael Guthrie Diana Khadr (research+design) Cory Lavigne Andrew Mannion Erin McLenaghan Robert Miller Nick Peters Anna Wyzykowska

"EACH 0RECEDENT #OMPARISON

historical Cherry Grove

Located at the northern-most developed edge of North Myrtle Beach, the community of Cherry Grove has maintained the smaller residential scale of stilted beach homes common in the flood zone. Tasked with converting 10 acres into a mixed-use town center, the team proposed to elevate the main road rather than raise the buildings on 0OPULATION $ENSITY stilts to meet coastal flood requirements, which allowed us to maintain "UILT %DGE human interaction with the buildings at â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;groundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; level. 3AND %DGE

Carpenteria, CA

Coney Island, New York, NY

Fortal

Population Density

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Laguna Beach, CA

Malibu, CA

Manh

Population Density

Populatio

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3TREET 'RID

Newport, OR

Seaside, FL

Ocean

Population Density

County Population Density

Populatio

As one of the team members to work consistently on the project, 0EDESTRIAN 0ATHS 0ARKS I was heavily involved in research and design: comparing coastal -AJOR 2OADS cities in terms of depth of beach, street grid, and the accumulation of commercial areas; demonstrating the lack of density in the "EACH !REA area through comparisons of floor-to-area ratios; designing Block C #OMMERCIAL & F. Renderings and drawings are group work, shown for clarification.(IGH DENSITY 2ESIDENTIAL 'ROCERY

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Santa Monica, CA

South Beach, Miami, FL

Venic

Population Density

Miami Population Density

LA Popul

Gulf Shores, AL

La Jolla Beach, CA

Population Density

Pacific Beach, CA Manhattan Beach, CA

San Diego Population Density

Population Density

Myrtle Beach, SC

Naples, FL

Population Density

"EACH 0RECEDENT #OMPARISON

Fortaleza, Brazil Population Density

Carpenteria, CA

Coney Island, New York, NY

Fortaleza, Brazil

Population Density

Palm Beach, FL Population Density

Oceanside, CA

Pacific Beach, CA

0OPULATION $ENSITY 53 #ENSUS $ATA Palm Beach, FL

Population Density

San Diego Population Density

"UILT %DGE Population Density

Laguna Beach, CA

Malibu, CA

Manhattan Beach, CA

Population Density

3AND %DGE

Newport, OR

Seaside, FL

Oceanside, CA

3TREET 'RID

Population Density

County Population Density

Population Density

0EDESTRIAN 0ATHS 0ARKS -AJOR 2OADS

"EACH !REA

#OMMERCIAL (IGH DENSITY 2ESIDENTIAL

Virginia Beach, VA

'ROCERY

Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA

Virginia Beach, VA

North Myrtle Beach, SC

LA Population Density

Population Density

North Myrtle Beach, SC Santa Monica, CA

South Beach, Miami, FL

Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA

Population Density

Miami Population Density

LA Population Density

Population Density

average f.a.r. = 3.4

existing

proposed

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f.a.r. =3.2

average f.a.r. = .17

gross floor area development lot size

The relatively smaller street grid in the Cherry Grove section of North Myrtle Beach accommodates higher density and pedestrian-centric development, transforming the area into a defined city-center. Unlike adjacent properties that create a wall of ocean-front towers, the Allegiant project increases the depth of the beach, pushing towers back for more expansive views of ocean and marshland.

Block A_museum

Block B_hotel

retail residential

Sea Mountain Hwy west elevation

Block F_office

Block C_beach club

retail residential

park

Block E_grocery retail residential

looking east toward marsh

Block D_hotel retail

Sea Mountain Hwy

Block C

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Block D

Block E

Block F

oceanfront beach club and park

looking down Sea Mountain Hwy

site model showing street grading

parking scheme

At the nexus of old and new, fast and slow, the site for the Dearborn Intermodal Station needs to balance the shift between the slower pedestrian experience of passers-by and the faster-paced experience of commuters, between the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preserved history and its potential future. Materiality is used as a means to transcend the temporality of form, allowing oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understanding of the building to shift with scale. At the macro-level, the structure is visible as a unified whole, and at the micro-level the material emerges as a tactile play of light and shadow. In order to establish the clarity of perception at the larger scale, the imaging of the site RED A6 had to be addressed as well. Rather than a pixilated field of visual noise, the parking lot is organized by color, visible as a striated pattern from the station. Parking Receipt

29 intermodal

Parking Receipt

RED A6

Parking Receipt

RED A6

cantilevered steel structure shallow reflecting pool

level 2

pavilion

corrugated metal crushed stone path

ticketing

poured concrete crushed stone path

recessed lighting

entrance

level 1

Bridging the site, the station is flanked by an entrance plaza that faces Michigan Avenue and an elevated pavilion that provides views of the tracks and the site beyond. Further connecting it to its surroundings, the station is enclosed only when necessary, remaining open to sounds, sights, and the elements.

31 intermodal parking area

drop-off and entrance portal

entrance plaza

descent to ticketing area

admission

waiting area

waiting pavilion

pavilion exterior

Sketchbooks designed for friends were customized according to personal preferences with coordinating packaging. Here, a Boontjeinspired sketchbook is held in a felt jacket laser-cut with the same design. The organic pattern also appears on the final mailer. [laminated mylar cover, quadrille paper, felt jacket] The DK

33 sketchbooks

Laser-cut felt jacket

Acetone-transfered pattern on mailer

This sketchbook design played on the idea of sewn details and recycled materials as well as taking on the challenge of combining the book jacket and mailer. [stitched paper cover, recycled paper, plastic jacket] The HR

Padded mailer and jacket in one

oCt. 27, 2009 6pM A+A Auditorium Cecil Balmond is an internationally renowned designer, structural engineer, author and Deputy Chairman of the international, multi-disciplinary engineering firm Arup. Through his provocative designs in collaboration with leading architects and artists and eloquent writings, Balmond has put forward a dynamic and organizational approach to structure that is informed by the sciences of complexity, non-linear organization and emergence. Recognizing that the universe is a constantly changing array of patterns (both random and regular), he also draws on ancient wisdom and non-western mathematical archetypes. He has received several prestigious rewards for his structural engineering work and has authored several books, including: Informal (Prestel, 2002), Number Nine (Prestel, 1998) and coauthored Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Toyo Ito (Telescoweb.com, Japan), and Unfolding with Daniel Liebeskind (NAI, 1997). Learn more at: www.arup.com

/// Daniel Monk

John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture

The Geopolitics of Greenwashing ocT. 8, 2009 6pM a+a auditorium Daniel Monk is Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies and Professor of Geography at Colgate University. His books include “An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict” and “Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism.” Mr. Monk is also a principal in the Tel-Aviv architectural firm, Piltzer/Monk Architects, one of the most highly premiated practices in Israel. Mr. Monk now limits his participation in the practice to pro bono work and design in the public interest.

Doctoral Students, Please Join Us: 10/9/09 9-10:30am PhD Seminar, Room 2147

taubmancollege.umich.edu/lectures Design: Diana Khadr, 2G3

As part of a new branding initiative at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the College wanted a set of promotional posters for the Fall Lecture Series that would be in line with the emerging College identity. With the supervision of Christian Unverzagt and Amber LaCroix, I set out to create posters that were vibrant, suitable for both web and print distribution, as well as easy to read. The poster in the photograph (above) was a mixed-media original print, done in collaboration with Charles Starr.

uP Next >> 10/13/09 Henco Bekkering oct. 8, 2009 5Pm Michigan Theater 603 E. Liberty Iconoclastic architect Bernard Khoury is currently working on projects in the Arabian Gulf region. His commissions include banks and apartment buildings in Beirut, Lebanon; shopping malls in Kuwait; a women’s spa in Saudi Arabia; a 30-story office tower in Dubai; and a new media center in Armenia. In varying ways, each project is a reflection of the cultural and economic transformation underway throughout the region. With support from the UM School of Art & Design, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), this lecture is a part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series. Learn more at: www.bernardkhoury.com

/// BerNard Khoury New Wars in Progress

35 posters

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/// CeCiL BaLMonD

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PERIMETER STUDIO LECTURES

Farshid Moussavi

PERIMETER STUDIO LECTURES

George Legendre

Foreign Office Architects

Ben Nicholson

IJP Corporation

September 17, 2009 6:00pm

Rural America on Steroids

Oct. 15, 2009 6:00pm A+A Auditorium (Rm.2104)

September 22, 2009 6:00pm

A+A Auditorium (2104)

Fabrication Lab Open House: Jan. 20, 2010 4:30-7p

Farshid Moussavi is Professor in Practice in the Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Prior to establishing the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects (with Alejandro Zaera Polo) in 1992, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam.

Join us for remarks from Dean Monica Ponce de Leon, Lab director Wes McGee, faculty members Karl Daubmann & Glenn Wilcox, as well as demonstrations and student work.

George L. Legendre was born in Paris, France and is the stepson of writer Pierre Legendre. His full-time academic career begun in his mid-twenties in 1995, first as assistant professor of design and computation at Harvard University (1996-2001) and recently as visiting professor at Princeton University (2003-05) and diploma unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (as of 2002).

Foreign Office Architects (FOA), is recognized as one of the most creative design firms in the world, deftly integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in their projects.

Some of his most notable projects include the Appliance House (MIT 1990) and Loaf House (1997, renaissancesociety.com). As part of his long-standing interest in American culture, he contributed to Hartmut Bitomsky’s documentary film B-52 (2001).

George’s expertise combines architectural design, analytic mathematics and computation. A onetime applied researcher, he has written design software and filed for an (abortive) technology patent with Harvard University, where he was also head of visual structures at the Center of Design Informatics (1997).

/// Rodolfo MAchAdo

His areas of interest include city form and morphology, the relation between architecture and urban design (in large urban projects), exterior and interior public space, the integration of infrastructure in cities, and pedestrian use of city centers.

Working outside the architectural mainstream, he employs design strategies that celebrate and draw upon architectural vernaculars. The significance of his contributions to design is evidenced by the publication of a monograph of his work entitled An Architecture of theOzarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell. Marlon was selected as one of the ID Forty: Undersung Heroes by The International Design Magazine, and as an “Emerging Voice” iy the Architectural League of New York.

Julian’s current interests include: Design, Science Fiction, Film, Urban Space, Future Things and strategies for thinking about and creating conversations that lead to more habitable near future worlds.

www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/lectures

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Learn more at: www.machado-silvetti.com

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Marlon Blackwell, FAIA is an architect based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and a professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Julian is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, their design-to-think studio. He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. He has taught interactive media at Parson’s School of Design and the University of Southern California.

Mr. Machado is also a well-respected academic, currently chairing the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s GSD.

Learn More at: www.hkbs.nl

nov. 10, 2009 6pM a+a auditorium

oct. 15, 2009 7:30p a+a auditorium

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rodolfo Machado is principal of the highly-recognized urban design and architecture practice Machado and Silvetti Associates. As an international practice, the firm has become known for creating environments that employ a rich, tactile language of materiality and impeccable detail.

taubmancollege.umich.edu/lectures

An Architecture of UnHoly Unions

Design Fiction

oct. 1, 2009 6pM a+a auditorium

He is also associated with the practice HKB Stedenbouwkundigen/urbanists, working on all levels of scale of urban planning and design, and integrating technical, social, political, economical and legal aspects, stressing contextualism, meaning and historical continuity.

/// MArlon BlAckwell

/// Julian Bleecker

Machado and Silvetti Associates / Boston

Mr. Bekkering is a professor of urban design in the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University in Delft and is currently The Netherlands Visiting Professor of Urban Planning for Fall 2009 at Taubman College.

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In 1994, he co-founded the University of Arkansas Mexico Summer Urban Studio, and has coordinated and taught in the program at the Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City since 1996.

Learn more at: www.nearfuturelaboratory.com

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oCT. 13, 2009 6pM a+a auditorium

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The Memory of The City

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Design: Diana Khadr, 2G3

/// HenCo Bekkering

Images: Parma, Italy (city center) and Saint-Dié, France (Corbusier Plan 1945). From Collage City by Rowe & Koetter, 1978.

Taubman College is one of few select academic institutions around the world utilizing robotic automation to perform both subtractive machining and automated assembly processes.

Perimeter@Work invites a conversation to rethink where architecture is located and situated among the distributed and network logics of databases, pervasive regulatory bodies and the Mid-American landscape.

Design: Diana Khadr, 2G3

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Design: Diana Khadr, 2G3

The newly renovated Michigan Fabrication Lab at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning leverages state-of-theart industrial technology to perform architectural fabrication research and representation initiatives.

By way of the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Perimeter@ Work seeks out non-exclusionary ways of pursuing urban formation through architecture and the Internet of Things and ActorNetworks.

By way of the 40th anniversary of the Internet, the Perimeter@Work studio seeks out non-exclusionary ways of pursuing urban formation through architecture and the Internet of Things and Actor-Networks.

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His recent writing and design projects include The Hidden Geometric Pavement in Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library, a book that muses over the nature of number, geometry and the structure of knowledge, and The World Who Wants It?, a satire on Western method.

A regularly published essayist, he is the author of “ijp The Book of Surfaces” (AA publications, London 2003) as well as “Bodyline: The End of Our Meta-Mechanical Body” (ditto, 2005), and a critical study of John Pickering’s sculptural art, mathematical form (ditto, 2006).

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Architect Ben Nicholson is a Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Throughout his body of work, Nicholson has questioned and rearticulated the inherent meanings within architecture. He creates a critical inquiry that exposes the confluence of systems and desires at work within architecture and Western society.

Design: Diana Khadr, 2G3

Recognized as an outstanding and committed teacher, bringing a strong intellectual rigor to the discourse on architecture, she has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia, Princeton, and at several architecture schools in Europe.

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