I oA Sliver Lecture Series 2023/24 Tempor(E)alities

Lecture "Hysterical Realism. Architecture, Constraints and Imagination“ by SAM JACOB (Sam Jacob Studio, UK)

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Following we invite you to a small reception
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design, a practice whose work ranges from urban design through architecture, design and art to curatorial projects.
 
Sam is interested in how architecture and design can take ideas and make them real. Inspired by context, his projects try to embody stories, sensations and feelings in space, form and materials. His projects are striking yet also are full of familiar references, creating places and spaces with character and surprising beauty.
Past projects have included nightclubs, social housing, community centres, parks, TV studios and exhibitions.
 
Recent projects include a new mixed use building in Hoxton, offices for Art Review, exhibition designs for Somerset House and the V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance. Current projects include the National Collection Centre and the William Morris Gallery.
 
He has been a professor of architecture at UIC since 2011 and has taught at the University of Hong Kong, Yale, Karlsruhe HfG, ABK Stuttgart, TU Vienna and the AA.
 
His work has been shown at institutions including the Art Institute Chicago, the MAK, the V&A, and the Venice Biennale, where he was co-curator of the British Pavilion in 2016. He is a columnist for Art Review and is the author of Make It Real, Architecture as Enactment (Strelka Press, 2012). Previously, Sam was a director of FAT Architecture.
 
Tempor(E)alities
 
As interesting as the times we live in may be, there are undoubtedly unprecedented temporal pressures at work within architecture and design. From real-time to deep time, this I oA Lecture Series is an open-ended collection of creative acts situated in and propelling the so-called Tempor(E)alities.
 
Thinking about temporalizing orders, logic, and notions in planning and design, the I oA Sliver Lecture Series is set to reflect on spatio-temporal entanglements in its broadest sense and aims to present various time perspectives through the lens of architecture and design.
 
 
I oA Sliver Lecture Series 2023/24 Tempor(E)alities is curated by Maja Ozvaldič.
Detailed information and updates under
 
Upcoming I oA Sliver Lectures 
 
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7pm
Jonas Swienty Andresen/Simon Strøyer, Tideland Studio (DK)
 
December 7, 2023, 7pm
Petra Gruber, transarch (AUT)
 
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7pm
Julia Koerner, JK Design (USA/AUT)
 
April 2024, 7pm (tbc)
​Lina Ghotmeh, Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (F/LEB)
 
May 2024, 7pm (tbc)
Giovanni Bellotti/Alessandra Covini, Studio Ossidiana (NL)
 
All lectures are free and open to the public.
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