May 03 2009
Trustees Room, Low Library
Day-long convening of a multi-generational group of US-based architects to discuss the issues that confront the discipline of architecture at a historical moment of crisis and change. Issues discussed included urbanism and infrastructure, sustainable development, emerging technologies, national and international political concerns, local/global economic processes, and artistic priorities.
Panelists:
Preston Scott Cohen, Preston Scott Cohen Inc, Harvard University
Elizabeth Diller, DS+R Architects, Princeton University
Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, Yale University
Merrill Elam, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Stephen Kieran, Kieran Timberlake, University of Pennsylvania
Monica Ponce de Leon, Office dA, University of Michigan
Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, Columbia University
Phyllis Lambert, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ, University of Miami
Hani Rashid, Asymptote Architecture, Columbia University
Jesse Reiser, Reiser + Umemoto, Princeton University
Mack Scogin, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Robert A.M. Stern, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Yale University
Nader Tehrani, Office dA, MIT
Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects, Columbia University
Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto
Mark Wigley, Columbia University
Michael Bell, Michael Bell Architecture, Columbia University
Laurie Hawkinson, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, Columbia University
Discussion moderated by Reinhold Martin, Buell Center Director
Invited but unable to attend:
Denise Scott Brown, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
Henry N. Cobb, Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners
Lise-Anne Couture, Asymptote Architecture
Andrés Duany, DPZ , University of Miami
Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang, Illinois Institute of Technology
Frank Gehry, Gehry Partners
Greg Lynn, Greg Lynn Form, UCLA
Thom Mayne, Morphosis Architects
Ricardo Scofidio, DS+R Architects, Cooper Union
James Timberlake, Kieran Timberlake, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Venturi, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates