:::  LLLABO LUMINARIES 05  :::

ROMANCING TECHNOLOGY: ARCHITECTURE AND VISION

  • Speakers: Andreas Vogler (Switzerland) and Arturo Vittori (Italy)
  • When: Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Where: Rooms 201-202, Building 63, Nishi-waseda Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo  (Map)
  • Language: English
  • Registration: Please register your attendance using the form below.
  • Poster: To download, click here.

Architecture has had a long but ambivalent relationship with technology. Le Corbusier idealised steamships and automobiles; Archigram fetishized oil rigs and spacecraft; yet architecture’s most essential issues are humanistic rather than technological, while construction remains basically a low-tech industry rooted in the manual trades. With climate change and environmental degradation the daily reality of 21st century existence, technology is seen by many as being as much the root of our problems as the means of our salvation.

The speakers for the next LLLABO Luminaries event are enthusiastic advocates for the positive interpretation of technology. Andreas Vogler and Arturo Vittori, co-founders of Architecture and Vision, draw inspiration from the beauty of nature and scientific progress, “aiming to improve the quality of life through a wise use of technologies and available resources to create a harmonious integration of humans, technology and nature.” With elegant proposals ranging from hi-tech tents to blueprints for lunar bases, Architecture and Vision’s work reveals not just a robust faith in the power of technological thinking to solve problems, but more significantly, a real sense of romance about the whole enterprise of human progress via technology. In this their work recalls those optimistic eras (eg: Victorian Britain, postwar Japan) when the future was definitely something to look forward to.

LLLABO and the Architecture Department of Waseda University are pleased to host a public lecture by Architecture and Vision. All welcome – advance registration requested.

ANDREAS VOGLER

(Basel, 1964) Swiss architect and co-founder of Architecture and Vision (AV). After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he worked with Richard Horden in London and at the Technical University of Munich. He was Guest Professor at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, conducting research in prefabricated building. He has written numerous papers on space architecture and technology transfer.

ARTURO VITTORI

(Viterbo, 1971) Italian architect and co-founder of Architecture and Vision (AV). After graduating from the University of Florence, he collaborated with Santiago Calatrava, Jean Nouvel and Francis Design on a variety of architectural projects and with Future Systems and Anish Kapoor on the subway station in Naples. Vittori worked on aircraft, yacht and ship design in Toulouse, France and London, including designs for the interior for the first Airbus A380.

Registration
The event has ended - registrations closed.

Romancing Technology: Architecture and Vision