The School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo invites alumni and friends to the Representing Ambience Today: Tracing the Materiality of Virtual Objects Symposium.
This symposium explores the concept of ambience in architecture in three themed areas: the Ambience of Matter, representing ephemeral qualities such as energy and light in architecture, Urban Ambience, the representation of quantitative data with use of parametrics and GIS, and Spatial Practice the representation of social relations and the significance of these forms of representation in our future built environment. Included in this unique symposium is a rare look at the late Alvin Boyarsky’s private collection that encompasses design proposals, site plans, unbuilt works and theoretical investigations and reflects the collapse of a singular related canon of modern architecture, while heralding the blossoming of new and varied approaches to architecture by some of today’s leading architects including Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, and Daniel Libsekind.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association held at Design at Riverside Gallery from February 29 to April 10, 2016. The University of Waterloo School of Architecture presents a rare look at this influential private collection.
Preliminary symposium agenda:
| 9:30 - 10:30 am |
Welcome/introductory remarks John McMinn/Adrian Blackwell Introductory Keynote - Igor Marjanovic – Washington University St Louis Introduction – John McMinn - UW Respondent – Nicholas Boyarsky – Boyarsky Murphy Architects |
| 10:30 - 12:15 pm |
Session 1: Atmospheres - the ambience of matter Session Framing/Introductions - Anne Bordeleau - UW Alessandra Ponte – Universite de Montreal Jane Hutton – Harvard University Charles Stankievech – University of Toronto Respondent – Dereck Revington - UW |
| 12:15 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch at Bridge, 37 Main Street, Cambridge
followed
by
viewing
the
exhibitions: |
| 1:30 - 3:15 pm |
Session 2: Implosions/Explosions - urban ambience Session Framing/Introductions – Lola Sheppard - UW Kian Goh – Northeastern University Janette Kim – Syracuse University Sarah Gunawan – University of Waterloo Respondent – Mona El Khafif – UW |
| 3:45 - 5:30 pm |
Session 3: Spatial Practice - the ambience of social relations Session Framing/Introductions – Marie-Paule Macdonald - UW Miguel Robles-Duran – Parsons / The New School Scott Sorli – Ryerson University Mejay Gula – U Chicago Arts / Rebuild, Chicago Respondent – Adrian Blackwell – UW |
| 5:30 - 6:00 pm |
Refreshments
Exhibitions: |
| 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
Introduction/Respondent – Ila Berman UW Concluding Keynote - Alex Wall - University of Virginia |
| 8:30 - 9:30 pm |
Refreshments
Exhibitions: |
Exhibitions are open 9:00a.m. to 9:30p.m. on Saturday April 2, 2016:
Drawing
Ambience:
Alvin
Boyarsky
and
the
Architectural
Association
Design
at
Riverside
Gallery,
7
Melville
Street
South,
Cambridge,
ON
and
UW
thesis,
representing
ambience
Bridge
Gallery,
37
Main
Street,
Cambridge,
ON
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association is coorganized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. It is cocurated by Jan Howard, chief curator at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Igor Marjanović, associate professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalog distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Support for showing Drawing Ambience at the Design at Riverside Gallery is provided by the University of Waterloo, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Idea Exchange Art + Design, KPMB Architects, Diamond + Schmitt Architects, architectsAlliance, Blackwell Structural Engineers, Kohn Shnier Architects