Throughout history, drawings have served as representations of different models of the universe. Matthew Ritchie’s and Aranda/Lasch’s investigation aims at the translation of information into material, in which the algorithm creates sets of relationships and “natural” tiling systems with a high degree of symmetry and based on the efficiency of a limited amount of building blocks. Their expertise in modular crystalline structures, further developed with Daniel Bosia from Arup AGU to take on the shape of truncated tetrahedrons, is implored to produce rules for drawings and rules for building, so that the architecture can disappear and the drawing itself be brought into the fore. The drawing is the building, the drawing is the substance and the structure of the building.

Speakers:
Matthew Ritchie, Artist, NY
Ben Aranda / Chris Lasch, Architects, Aranda/Lasch, NY
Daniel Bosia, Deputy Director, Arup AGU, London
Greg Lynn, Architect, Greg Lynn FORM, Venice, CA (tbc)
Farshid Moussavi, Architect, Foreign Office Architects, NY
Paola Antonelli, Curator, MoMA, NY
Daniela Zyman, Curator, T-B A21, Vienna
Moderator: Mark Wigley, Dean of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, NY